Salt

Salt is a 2010 American thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Kurt Wimmer andBrian Helgeland, and starring Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Daniel Olbrychski, August Diehland Chiwetel Ejiofor. Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, who is accused of being a KGB sleeper agent, and goes on the run to try to clear her name. While Tom Cruise was initially secured for the lead, the script was ultimately rewritten for Jolie.

Filming took place on a location in Washington, D.C., the New York City area, and Albany,New York, between March and June 2009. The film had a panel at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 22 and was released in North America on July 23, 2010 and August 18, 2010, in the United Kingdom.

In a prison in North Korea, CIA agent Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is being tortured on suspicion of being an American spy. Released as part of a prisoner exchange, she is collected by Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber). Waiting for her is German arachnologist Michael Krause (August Diehl), who Winter states had campaigned tirelessly for her release.

Two years later, Salt has resumed working for the CIA, and it is clear that she and Krause are married. Fifteen minutes before she leaves to celebrate her anniversary, a Russian defector named Orlov (Daniel Olbrychski) arrives. Orlov tells Salt about "Day X," a Russian plot to destroy the United States by using English-speaking sleeper agents trained from birth. Agent "KA-12" will kill the Russian President Boris Matveyev (Olek Krupa) at the funeral of the American vice president. Orlov reveals that KA-12 is named "Evelyn Salt."

Salt, understandably shocked by the accusation, calls her husband because she realizes that he is also in danger; he doesn't answer. When Winter and Peabody (Chiwetel Ejiofor) decide to detain Salt, she escapes and makes her way back to her apartment building. Finding signs that Michael was kidnapped, Salt takes her weapons and one of Michael's spiders.

After evading CIA pursuit Salt takes a bus from D.C. to a hotel in New York City. While at the hotel she extracts venom from the spider and dyes her hair black. Salt makes her way to St. Bartholomew's Church, where the Vice President's funeral is taking place, evading pursuit and eventually setting off a demolition charge during Matveyev's eulogy. Matveyev falls through the floor and Salt shoots him, just before being caught by and refraining from killing Peabody. She escapes NYPD custody and takes a boat to see Orlov. On her way, in a series of flashbacks, Salt remembers growing up in the Soviet Union where Orlov trained her and many other children to obey him and infiltrate the American government. Orlov congratulates her on killing Russia's president, but criticizes her decision to marry as it was not part of her mission. Orlov takes Salt to see Michael. He then has Michael killed in front of her. Salt evinces dispassion to convince Orlov that she is still loyal to the cause, and Orlov briefs her on her next mission: the commandeering of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the assassination of sitting American President Howard Lewis (Hunt Block). Once he has finished, Salt kills him and the other agents. In another flashback, Salt recalls riding with Krause immediately following her release from North Korea. Salt confesses to Krause that she is a CIA agent, and that by campaigning for her release, he has put himself in danger (without explicitly naming the KA program).

Salt continues with Orlov's mission, meeting a fellow agent named Shnaider (Corey Stoll), who was her friend back in Russia, currently disguised as Czech NATO liaison Edvard Tomas. The two of them infiltrate the White House, where Shnaider sets off a suicide bomb, causing the President to be moved to the lower bunker, with Salt in hot pursuit. With everybody's attention focused on Salt, Winter kills everyone in the bunker except for President Lewis, whom he knocks unconscious, and thus revealing himself to also be a Russian sleeper agent. He then takes over the defense computers enabled by the President, and begins preparations to launch nuclear missiles at Mecca and Tehran. Salt manages to penetrate the bunker, reuniting with Winter. Salt realizes that Winter is also a KA agent, and begs to join him in the control room so that they can ostensibly celebrate together (with her true motive being to stop him). In a flashback, it is revealed that Krause was initially a pawn used by the CIA to create a cover for Salt, as his studies allowed him unfettered access to the North Korean area, as well as a potential recruit for the Russians. As the two talk, a news report comes on that Matveyev is alive; his mistakenly-reported death was actually a temporary paralysis caused by spider venom. Winter, now aware of Salt's duplicity, fights her over the nuclear football; Salt eventually aborts the launch, but is arrested by Secret Service while Winter is given medical attention. Salt manages to use the chain of her handcuffs to choke and kill Winter.

Salt is put on a helicopter with Peabody and she explains everything to him, and that because "they took everything from her" she wants to kill the rest of Orlov's agents in revenge. A skeptical Peabody eventually accepts she is telling the truth after he receives an SMS saying that Salt's fingerprints were found at the barge, confirming her betrayal of Orlov. Because there are other moles, Peabody allows her to escape so she can go after them. He uncuffs Salt, says to her "Go get'em!", and Salt jumps into the Potomac River, free once more.

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