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Salt is proof that Angelina Jolie can carry an actionpicture all by herself. The Academy Award winner gives a remarkable physicalperformance as the ex CIA operative on the run.

This could have been just another of those Hollywoodcookie-cutter chase movies where an innocent man (or in this case, woman) isframed for something they didnt do, and spends the movie searching for the realcriminals at the same time avoiding capture by the authorities. This was donemasterfully years ago in The Fugitive. Its also been done dreadfully in many sadexamples.

But Salt, the new movie by Phillip Noyce, the director ofPatriot Games and "Clear and Present Danger." can be comparedfavorably to The Fugitive. And the reason is due to the muscular, gritty andexplosive performance of Angelina Jolie. Where Harrison Ford was instrumentalin the success of the before-mentioned three films, Jolie is crucial to thefeel of Salt.

Jolie plays CIA operative Evelyn Salt, one of the agencystop super-spies. On the night of her wedding anniversary Salt is contacted bythe Agency. A recently defected Russian spy is thought to have informationcrucial to National Security. Since Salt is their best interrogator, theysummon her in to do the interrogation.

During the interrogation the Russian defector lays out a stillactive, decades-long Soviet plan to plant sleeper agents inside the United States.Starting in 1975, Russian agents began entering the United States and immediatelystarted blending into the population. These agents, indoctrinated sincechildhood, are ready and waiting for missions from Russia.

One such mission, according to the defector, has just beenissued. The Russian President has just entered the United States to visit with theAmerican President. One of the sleepers is to kill the visiting RussianPresident and the host American President. In the middle of this certain chaosa nuclear device, hidden somewhere in the Middle East, will be detonated insuch a way as to implicate the U.S.The idea is to destroy the United Stateswhile Russiaregains power.

Salt, her CIA bosses and coworkers are astonished to hear ofthis plan. Salt then presses the defector for the name of the mole. After a fewlame attempts at resistance he finally answers Evelyn Salt.

As her CIA colleagues in the room look at each other andthen at her, the next sequence lets the viewer know what to expect from the rest of the movie. EvelynSalt immediately transforms from super-spy to mega-super-spy. In a rapidsuccession of physical feats that would make Jack Bauer envious, she escapesfrom the room, makes her way out of the CIA building, jumps off an overpass andonto a moving 18-wheeler, then onto a tanker truck, then onto another semibefore landing on the windshield of a cab, stealing a motorcycle and speedingaway.

Of course her quick exit just makes her CIA colleagues surethat she is a mole. That is all except her associate and good friend Ted Winters(played by Liev Schreiber), who loves her and desperately wants to believeshe's innocent. The head counterintelligenceagent on the case (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) immediately mistrusts her andsends out everyone he has to track her down dead or alive.

The rest of the movie is Salt trying to find out what isgoing on, who is doing this to her, and to clear her good name. In a subplotthat turns out to be more important as the film goes on, Salts husband iskidnapped. Now she must also search for her husband.

As alluded to earlier, no actress working today is asconvincing an action star as Jolie, and she does tear it up here; the fightscenes are graphic and intense with almost no CGI. You can tell that Jolie isperforming stunts that could result in serious injury or even death if she wasntwell trained. Salt commits manyacts of violence over a short time some of them very questionable, many ofthem deadly, in her attempt to evade capture. Really, her character shares manytraits with Jack Bauer.

The moviedoes a good job of concealing whether or not Salt is actually a good spy or abad spy. Just when you think you have it nailed down something happens to makeyou reevaluate.

If you wantto see a very entertaining movie that will keep you guessing to the very end,go see Salt.

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