Yes, I'm still pissed about how bad "Salt" was.

But what's even more interesting is to see how many people are holding this film up as if it's a step in the right direction for women. The film is lauded for having a kick-ass female lead as if Angelina Jolie hasn't been doing that for the past decade (or that Milla Jovavich hasn't done it as well.) What they ignore is that the film was completely rewritten because Jolie was in it and her character's heroics were changed because the director didn't think a woman saving her husband would work.

"In the original script, there was a huge sequence where Edwin Salt saves his wife, who's in danger,' says Noyce. 'And what we found was when Evelyn Salt saved her husband in the new script, it seemed to castrate his character a little. So we had to change the nature of that relationship.'

Now, I'm not sure what the relationship was in the old script but, in this one, Salt's husband is a nerd who studies spiders and whose sole purpose in the film is to get kidnapped. And even that purpose isn't really necessary when you look at the big picture. Basically, instead of having a legitimate male character that needs to be saved by a woman, Noyce appears to have felt that the best way to make it work is make the husband borderline irrelevant.

If anything, this film is an example of the lack of feminist thinking in Hollywood. It seems that, in order for a woman to be seen as bad ass assassin, the rest of the film has to be completely preposterous. What could (and should) have been a Bourne-esque film was turned into a nonsensical, borderline parody of a spy film. If the people making this film had more faith in their character and weren't so worried about how the male supporting character looked, the film could have been much better. Sadly, it appears that Hollywood still isn't there yet.

EDIT: Apparently Salon.com caught onto this a couple of months ago and came up with almost the exact same conclusion that I did. The final film just makes this little piece by Scott Mendelson all the more correct.
In his blog, Mendelson also points out that some wonky editing might be to blamed for the mess that this became since Andre Braugher is the fifth billed actor and only shows up in one scene and has a throwaway line in it and Chiwetel Ejiofor goes from the third lead to almost completely absent for most of the final act.