Salt

"Who is Salt?" It's an ingredient. No, the tagline is not about a cooking class. It's the tagline of Philip Noyce's Salt starring Angelina Jolie. Well, it's been sometimes since we last saw her.2 years since her last appearance in Changeling. Salt was originally has Tom Cruise as the lead, but later on Angelina Jolie casted as the lead.

Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a CIA agent who is being accused of being a sleeper agent working for an organization built in the Cold War. A defector named Orlov (Daniel Olbrychski) told the CIA, that Evelyn Salt is a Russian agent named Chenkov who's tasked to kill the Russian president at the funeral of the vice president of the United States. Her friend, Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber), didn't believe the accusation. But later on, Salt escape from the CIA office. She then rushed to her apartment to search for her husband, Mike (August Diehl), only to find her husband missing. She managed to escape the counter-intelligence agency and goes to New York, where the Russian president will attend the ceremony.

Recently, I played Assassin's Creed 2, and I found out that Salt has similar things in common. Free running, jumping around the place, do some undercover stuff. Except of course, Ezio used hidden blade, not spider or guns. Angelina Jolie did all of the action scene herself without stuntman involved. What a dedication she made for this movie.

In general, Philip Noyce works is awesome. Although still it cannot beat Inception, in my opinion, but it is creating a new franchise. As there is no female agent out there as a theme right? (You know we're bored of the triple JB. James Bond, Jason Bourne, and Justin Bieber. Oh no, I mean Jack Bauer.)

Last thing, from the last scene, we can expect for a sequel come later. It clearly said that it should be another sequel. As the ending is not the happily ever after thing.