Salt

Production year: 2010

Thriller PG-13   Running time: 1:40 

IMDB rating:   6.4     Aspect: Wide;  Languages: English, French, Spanish;  Subtitles: English, French, Spanish;  Audio: DD 5.1

Angelina Jolie confirms her status as action-heroine supreme in the sinewy thriller Salt. Evelyn Salt (Jolie) is a respected high-ranking CIA agent… until a defecting Russian operative declares that she's a Russian mole in deep cover, launching her on the most delicious chase sequence since the Bourne movies. When the film's over you'll realize the motivations for much of what happened didn't make much sense, but while the movie's going on the pell-mell pace will brush such concerns from your mind. Director Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, Dead Calm) has a gift for staging action sequences you can actually follow moment to moment, which is infinitely more engaging than frenzied editing that blurs everything into cattle-prod jolts--the movie's first third is top-notch orchestration. Jolie's star magnetism provides the cool, calm axis around which everything else revolves; the sturdy supporting performances of Liev Schreiber (The Manchurian Candidate) and Chiwetel Ejiofor (Inside Man, Dirty Pretty Things) give enough heft to the plot to keep you from questioning anything. Salt is an old-fashioned entertainment, a skillfully made mechanism with enough grace notes to let it breathe and catch you by surprise.

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Features

Audio commentary
Featurettes/Behind-The-Scenes/Documentaries
Interviews

Special features

The Ultimate Female Action Hero
Spy Disguise: The Looks of Evelyn Salt
Radio Interview with Director Phillip Noyce
Filmmakers' Commentary
SALT: Declassified - An Undercover Look at the Secrets of Making SALT
The Real Agents
The Modern Master of the Political Thriller: Phillip Noyce
False Identity: Creating a New Reality
Spy Cam: Picture-inPicture Track
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