Salt starring Angelina Jolie & Liev Schreiber
Plot
CIA Agent Evelyn Salt is (Angelina Jolie) happilly married to the German scientist Mike Krause (August Diehl), and is getting along great with her co-worker Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber). And she can’t wait to quit the operations for a desk job, and celebrate her upcoming anniversary. Her plans get completely screwed up, however, when a Russian walk-in suggests that he has valuable information. He tells Salt, and the listening agents, that Russia has successfully raised Russian sleeper agents who fought marvelously, lied very convincingly and spoke English with genuine American accents. The more he reveals, the more the other agents believe him. And soon, he drops the actual bomb: Evelyn Salt is one of those agents, and her mission is to kill the Russian President who is in town to attend the American V.P.’s funeral. Ted tries to convince the CIA not to jump to conclusions, but they are determined to interrogate Evelyn. Evelyn realizes that she has to run for 3 reasons: to protect her husband, to save the Russian President and to clear her name.
Evelyn barely manages to escape, and the Russian walk-in Orlov proves to be deadlier than given credit for. When Evelyn can’t reach her husband, she takes a different kind of route: She acts like the Russian spy she is believed to be, what we are convinced that she just might be. Now, was she acting when she was Evelyn Salt? Is she really a Russian spy? And if she is, which one of her identities is more dominant?
**
Is it any good?
Salt is a very fast-paced and highly entertaining action film where the female protagonist has all the cool moves and improvisations. Yes, the story’s twists are predictable. But worry not, the predictability is a part of the charm. After all, we are more interested in how and why Evelyn kicks ass, as well whose ass she is going to kick.
The screenwriter is Kurt Wimmer, one of my favorites ever since he wrote Law Abiding Citizen & Equilibrium. Directed by Philip Noyce.
Recommended for the fans of Angelina Jolie and the fans of the genre.
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