Ter, no album of Led Zep or off-night bad live performance ever approached the depths of SALT. I have no idea why Ms Pitt felt compelled to act in it, it was plain bad, in contrast The Hunt for Red October was a cineastic masterpiece, evil Russians and all.
I saw Amelia recently. It's avanity project of Ms Swank who must have read a book on the pilotress and declared her her rolemodel. The film could be a TV movie from the sixties for its lack of pacing and the naivite of its story-telling, but it's not a wasted evening at home like SALT was.
If you do like conspiracy flics with a realistic touch then look at Matt Damon's most recent one where he very credibly plays an idealistic US Army officer in Iraq (disappointed from not finding any WoMD) siding with the CIA to uncover the manipulation of intelligence by the Foreign Office. It's afilm in the Bourne Identity trilogy vein, looking mostly like it was filmed by an embedded journalist in real action, monochrome, fuzzy pics and shaky handheld camera at all, but it keeps you at the edge of the seat (and commemorates American values like "we're doing this for a purpose" and freedom of information).
