Salt
Director Phillip Noyce teams with screenwriters Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium) and Brian Helgeland (Mystic River) to craft this thriller starring Angelina Jolie as dedicated CIA officer Evelyn Salt, who is accused by a defector of being a Russian spy. With each attempt Salt makes to prove her innocence, her mentor, Winter (Liev Schreiber), only grows more suspicious of her true motivations. The longer she eludes capture by ambitious CIA agent Peabody (Chiwetel Ejiofor), the higher the stakes get.
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Angelina Jolie,Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski, August Diehl
Salt moves ever forward -- pushing, pushing, pushing its heroine to greater feats every minute. It doesn't stop for martinis, either shaken or stirred, or any other detours. The movie is lean and muscular, looking for action even in situations where a little sleight of hand might have done the trick.
Like its star, Salt is a spare and lean piece of work; it's everything a modern action movie should be, a picture made with confidence but not arrogance, one that believes so wholeheartedly in its outlandish plot twists that they come to make perfect alt-universe sense.
Salt knows how to stay one step ahead of you in devious, if jaw-droppingly contrived, ways. The movie is fun, dammit. So who cares, really, if it's trash?
Primed to keep your pulse racing so your brain will stop thinking, "WTF!" Go with the illogic or you'll miss the fun.
The action scenes are imaginative and elaborate without seeming fake. Nothing is belabored, and the stakes never stop escalating.
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Academy Awards (2011)
Best Action/Adventure Film
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films (2011)
Best Sound Editing - Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film
Motion Picture Sound Editors (2011)
Favorite Action Movie
People's Choice Awards (2011)
Best Stunts
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards (2010)
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