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Salt

  • 20102010
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
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Angelina Jolie in Salt (2010)
Evelyn Salt (Jolie) is a CIA officer who swore an oath to duty, honor, and country. When she is accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy, Salt goes on the run to clear her name and ultimately prove she is a patriot. Using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative, she must elude capture and protect her husband or the world's most powerful forces will erase any trace of her existence.
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A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
313K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
3,289
360
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    • Director
      • Phillip Noyce
    • Writer
      • Kurt Wimmer
    • Stars
      • Angelina Jolie
      • Liev Schreiber
      • Chiwetel Ejiofor
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    • Director
      • Phillip Noyce
    • Writer
      • Kurt Wimmer
    • Stars
      • Angelina Jolie
      • Liev Schreiber
      • Chiwetel Ejiofor
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    • 629User reviews
    • 344Critic reviews
    • 65Metascore
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 4 wins & 16 nominations total

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    Angelina Jolie
    Angelina Jolie
    • Evelyn Salt
    Liev Schreiber
    Liev Schreiber
    • Ted Winter
    Chiwetel Ejiofor
    Chiwetel Ejiofor
    • Peabody
    Daniel Olbrychski
    Daniel Olbrychski
    • Orlov
    August Diehl
    August Diehl
    • Mike Krause
    Daniel Pearce
    Daniel Pearce
    • Young Orlov
    Hunt Block
    Hunt Block
    • U.S. President Lewis
    Andre Braugher
    Andre Braugher
    • Secretary of Defense
    Olek Krupa
    Olek Krupa
    • Russian President Matveyev
    Cassidy Hinkle
    Cassidy Hinkle
    • 12-Year-Old Chenkov
    Corey Stoll
    Corey Stoll
    • Shnaider
    Vladislav Koulikov
    Vladislav Koulikov
    • Chenkov's Father
    Olya Zueva
    Olya Zueva
    • Chenkov's Mother
    Kevin O'Donnell
    Kevin O'Donnell
    • Young CIA Officer
    Gaius Charles
    Gaius Charles
    • CIA Officer
    Zach Shaffer
    Zach Shaffer
    • CIA Security Officer
    Albert Jones
    Albert Jones
    • CIA Technician
    Zoe Lister-Jones
    Zoe Lister-Jones
    • CIA Security Hub Tech
    • Director
      • Phillip Noyce
    • Writer
      • Kurt Wimmer
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The movie was originally written with Salt as a male (Edwin A. Salt), and Tom Cruise was approached to play him. Ultimately, he backed out and the script was rewritten with a female lead and Angelina Jolie was cast.
    • Goofs
      In the Theatrical Release, the President is unconscious, not dead, in the bunker. Upon regaining consciousness, the President certainly would have revealed Agent Winter, and not Agent Salt, as the culprit.
    • Quotes

      Evelyn Salt: What is your name?

      Vassily Orlov: My name is Vassily Orlov. Today, a Russian agent will travel to New York city to kill the President. This agent is KA-12.

      Evelyn Salt: The KA program is a myth.

      Vassily Orlov: Don't you want to know the name?

      Evelyn Salt: You're good. You can tell the rest of your story to one of my colleagues.

      Vassily Orlov: Salt.

      Evelyn Salt: Yes?

      Vassily Orlov: The name of the agent is Evelyn Salt.

      Evelyn Salt: My name is Evelyn Salt.

      Vassily Orlov: Then you are a Russian spy.

    • Alternate versions
      UK theatrical version was cut for violence to achieve a '12A' rating with edits to the opening torture scene and some blows and chain throttling during fight scenes. These cuts persisted into the US theatrical version, although the UK DVD was raised to a 15 due to the inclusion of the extended and director's cut versions (which are unrated on the US DVD).
    • Connections
      Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: The Men Who Stare at Goats/A Christmas Carol/Precious (2009)
    • Soundtracks
      Zarya
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      Arranged by Irina Mikhailova

      Performed by Irina Mikhailova and Hans Christian

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    Jolie proves she can play rough in Kurt Wimmer's Salt
    While I can't say that I was awaiting Angelina Jolie's latest outing with bated breath, I was intrigued by the fact that Salt was originally intended to be a Tom Cruise vehicle.

    Tom's waning box office pulling-power aside, this sex-swap was a smart move by writer Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium) as it gives Jolie the chance to prove that she can lay the smack-down on just as many henchmen as the boys can. Having her rather than him as the duplicitous CIA agent Evelyn Salt, Wimmer gives a fresh angle to a plot that could easily have been a boring instalment of the Bourne series. Salt also sees the welcome return of Russian villains to the cinema after a long period in which Middle Eastern terrorists were severely over-worked.

    When a Soviet defector strolls into the CIA and announces that Salt is a sleeper agent who will kill the Russian president, she goes on the run. Fearing for the safety of her husband Michael, Salt sets out to find him before agents Winter (Liev Schreiber) and Peabody (Chiwetel Ejiofor) catch up with her. The question of where Salt's loyalties lie is the true source of tension and Jolie plays it cool, gaining and dismissing the audience's trust several times over.

    Schreiber and Ejiofor draw the short straws in terms of dialogue and simply run after Jolie for the entire movie without doing anything of significance. Hopefully, if the proposed sequel goes ahead, Wimmer will be able to correct this glaring oversight.

    The action scenes are sharply directed and Jolie finally gets her hands dirty, particularly in the opening exchanges where she's being tortured in a Korean prison. If that wasn't enough, she also flies down an elevator shaft by leaping from wall to wall – it was a silly effect but added a cheesy, fanciful element to what would have been an entirely too serious movie.

    Consequently the first 40 minutes are fast and furious as Salt evades her fellow agents by any means necessary but not to be outdone, the rest of the film takes a left turn and continues to surprise with some serious fisticuffs, gun-play and high-speed car chases. Admittedly, for all its skill and enthusiasm, Salt's finale is a little over-the-top and it wanders into well-worn ground without knowing when to stop. Aside from this minor gripe, Salt is a well-directed action movie that delivers us a potential new franchise, an intriguing lead character and an exciting close to a lacklustre summer.
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    • It's been over ten years now, is there ever going to be a sequel or some sort of continuation of Salt's story in some form?
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    • Release date
      • July 23, 2010 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official site (Japan)
      • Sony Pictures (France)
    • Languages
      • English
      • Russian
      • Korean
    • Also known as
      • Edwin A. Salt
    • Filming locations
      • Makaryev Monastery, Lyskovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
    • Production companies
      • Columbia Pictures
      • Relativity Media
      • Di Bonaventura Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $110,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $118,311,368
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $36,011,243
      • Jul 25, 2010
    • Gross worldwide
      • $293,503,354
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
      • DTS
      • Dolby Atmos
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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