Salt is one of those rare action flicks that has non-stop hard hitting action for ninety minutes straight and is all done with a brain. Originally, written for a male lead star, in which Tom Cruise was the primary candidate but after he turned it down because it was too similar to his role in Mission Impossible the makers changed the script and took on Angelina Jolie to play the same role reworked for a female main lead and she deserves to be called the best actress in a movie action.
The film opens with Ms Jolie being tortured in a North Korean prison from where she is rescued and then break out into an endless pleasure that has dual purposes. First, it’s should to answer the million dollar question: Who is Salt ? Russian mole or patriotic CIA agent? And second, it is intentioned to save America -- and the world from Armageddon.
Evelyn Salt (Jolie) is a C.I.A. officer who is amazing at her job. She has done everything to protect the United States but a defector accused that Evelyn is a Russian spy who has been planted in the United States to kill the President.
Her actions of running away are not helping her but she wants to make sure that her husband is safe, even if that means risking her life..
The action is absolutely non-stop but the best part about it is that it’s believable.
Between improvised rocket launchers, highway chases that include several truck jumps, and secret identities. Salt keeps audiences guessing until the very end who is the real salt.
As the movie goes on, we learn more and more about who Salt really is. And the real answer is Evelyn Salt.
She switch supports Russia after her husband who is a German citizen killed by U.S.
