Angelina Jolie's 'Salt' (Review with Spoilers)
How Many Good Guys is it OK to Kill in the Name of National Security?
But how many people is it OK to kill in the name of national security? Sure, Salt prevents her comrad Nikolai (Liev Schreiber) from launching a nuclear attack on Mecca and killing 9 million people. But look at how many good guys she recklessly kills in the process!
OK, killing Orlav (Daniel Olbrychski) and the 11 Russian agents she remembered as children is revenge for the death of her husband Mike Krause (August Diehl). Maybe that's OK. Those agents were all killers too, and Orlav was the master spy. Fair enough.
Look at all the police and fellow agents Salt kills in her exploits, though! How many good guys does she blow up or shoot while escaping her employers? While getting into the US Vice President's funeral? Getting to the bunker beneath the White House? Salt's police and agent death toll has got to be dozens if not hundreds. Add another dozen for the car chase where Salt rams the police cars repeatedly.
Viewers are meant to think, "Salt is OK. She didn't really kill the Russian President." (She just stopped his heart for a while, with her late husband's spider venom.) Viewers are meant to forgive her because she didn't shoot Peabody (Chiwetel Ejiofor) when she had the chance. Oh yeah, and she saved the world from nuclear war by stopping Nikolai from bombing Mecca and starting World War III, yeah yeah.
On first viewing it is easy to buy into all this. However, Salt can't be the only reasonable agent or employee of the CIA. There had to be a way to just tell Peabody what was up at the beginning.
It is tough to admire someone who goes around blowing up good guys, even if they do so with office furniture and cleaning products.
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Post a CommentI'm dying to see this but will wait till it comes out on DVD. Here in Thailand, US movies are either dubbed in Thai (really annoying) or with Thai subtitles that take up half the screen. For me it really ruins the movie so I rarely go to the cinema anymore.