 Salt received generally positive reviews from critics . Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 62 % based on 231 reviews , with a rating average of 6 out of 10 . The site 's critical consensus reads : " Angelina Jolie gives it her all in the title role , and her seasoned performance is almost enough to save Salt from its predictable and ludicrous plot . " Metacritic , which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from film critics , gave the film a score of 65 based on 42 reviews , indicating " generally favorable reviews . " Many reviewers highlighted the coincidence of Salt getting released shortly after the reveal of real Russian sleeper agents in the <unk> Program , with a few comparing Salt to one of the agents , Anna Chapman . 
