Salt received generally positive reviews from critics.[54] Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 62% based on 242 reviews, with a rating average of 5.99/10. 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.”[55] 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.”[54] Many reviewers highlighted the coincidence of Salt getting released shortly after the reveal of real Russian sleeper agents in the Illegals Program,[56][57][58] with a few comparing Salt to one of the agents, Anna Chapman.