Movie Review: Salt

Salt: Movie Review
Starring Angelina Jolie

"Salt" is about a CIA agent who may potentially be a Russian spy. Before the movie came out, there was lots of controversy whether Evelyn Salt (the main character) was a hero or a villain. I thought she was a villain, and you will find out if I am right or wrong later on.

The movie starts with a scene where Salt is a prisoner in North Korea, and is being tortured. This was 2 months ago, and now, in the present, she works for the CIA. It was her anniversary with her husband, so she wanted to leave early, but there was a walk-in to the CIA headquarters, and they needed Salt, their best interrogator, to ask him a few questions. She did so unwillingly, and sat down with the Russian man named Orlav. Orlav told Salt about "Day X", an attack by Russia to destroy the United States, and he told her that there would be a Russian spy that would kill the Russian Prime Minister. Orlav says that the name of the spy is Evelyn Salt, and after running neurotests, the investigators listening outside the room found out that he was not lying. Salt tries to argue her innocence, but one of the investigators, Peabody, wants to lock her up. She escapes the building, barely getting past the soldiers that Peabody had sent by creating an explosive out of cleaning products. Meanwhile, while in the elevator, Orlav is escorted by two policemen. Right when the doors close, a spike pops out of his shoe, and he attacks the two officers, killing them both after they were knocked unconscious. Salt has escaped, and Orlav has escaped. Now, Peabody and Ted Winter, Salt's friend and coworker must catch her and stop her at all costs.
Salt uses the traffic and the advantages of being on foot to great use, and she gets away on a motorcycle. Peabody and Ted are very frustrated, and they plan to watch over the funeral very carefully the day after tomorrow.
Salt goes back to her apartment to find that her husband has disappeared, and so she takes one of his spiders (he is an arachnologist), and flies to Washington, D.C, where the funeral will be held. She poses herself as a man, and signs into a hotel room. There, she takes a syringe and removes some of the poison from the spider.
On the day of the funeral, Ted and Peabody are looking around for Salt, but she is disguised by dying her hair jet black. Inside the church, as the Russian Prime Minister was making his speech, Salt made the floor under him explode, and all the organs went off all at once. The Russian Prime Minister was dazed, and the last thing he saw was Salt pointing her gun at him and pulling the trigger. Peabody finds Salt, and both are holding their guns and aiming at each other. Salt drops her gun at Peabody's command, and she is taken away by the police, with a satisfied smirk on her face. Inside the police car, at the perfect moment, Salt attacks the other officers, even with her handcuffs on, and crashes the car. She escapes calmly, walking straight away from the accident, and nobody notices her. She takes a boat away to where she knows Orlav is hiding, and he greets her very warmly. Salt was raised in Russia after her parents died in a car crash, and she and a large group of other small children were taught by Orlav. Orlav reveals Salt's real name, Chenkov, and they head down into the Russian secret base. There, Orlav asks Salt if he can trust her, and she says definitely. Orlav still had his suspicions, so he brought her down to the basement, were she saw with horror her husband gagged and bound. One Russian soldier shoots him, killing him. Salt does not do anything rash, but her eyes say that she was grieving inside. But, in order to stay alive, she does not do anything, and Orlav is satisfied. Later on, up in the cabin, while Orlav is busy with a new plan to kill the President of the United States, Salt takes a wine bottle and kills him. Grabbing a pistol and three grenades, she kills everyone on the ship. She then heads to back to Washington, D.C, and on the plane, she meets an old friend that was also taught by Orlav. This friend knew Orlav's plan, and so the two travelled together and posed as sergeants in the army to get by security. Salt had cut her hair short, and applied a skin paste to make her skin darker. They get into the White House, and spot the President and a large group of bodyguards, including Ted. Her Russian spy counterpart did not tell Salt his role, but just told her her's once more, then suddenly, he ran right into the group of people surrounding the President, shooting everyone. The guards' bullets hit him, and as he was about to crumble, he detonated a bomb set on himself. This rent apart the whole corridor, but the President, Ted, and a handful of other officers were still alive. They head down to the very secure basement, where there is a hightech laboratory. Salt is now faced with her mission alone.