History Film / Salt

** The way Salt dyes her hair and employs various disguises is reminiscent of the ''Film/MissionImpossible'' films and ''Series/{{Alias}}''.

* AssassinationAttempt: TheMole succeeds in moving the President and his retinue into the subterranean bunker below the White House. There, he is able to wrest away a pistol from a treasury agent, and massacres everyone including the President. Using the corpse's thumbprint, TheMole is able to initiate the nuclear launch protocol. It's up to DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent Evelyn Salt to regain control of the command bunker and issue a stand-down order.

* AssassinationAttempt: TheMole succeeds in moving the President and his retinue into the subterranean bunker below the White House. There, he is able to wrest away a pistol from a treasury agent, and massacres everyone except the President. Using the corpse's thumbprint, TheMole is able to initiate the nuclear launch protocol. It's up to DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent Evelyn Salt to regain control of the command bunker and issue a stand-down order.

* AssassinationAttempt: TheMole succeeds in moving the President and his retinue into the subterranean bunker below the White House. There, he is able to wrest away a pistol from a treasury agent, and massacres almost everyone, including the President. Using the corpse's thumbprint, TheMole is able to initiate the nuclear launch protocol. It's up to DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent Evelyn Salt to regain control of the command bunker and issue a stand-down order.

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: The US president]], who outright tells [[spoiler: Ted to go fuck himself]]. At a gunpoint. With all his personnel being mowed down in front of him mere seconds ago.
* DescriptionCut: Peabody, Winters and other agents are discussing how hard it would be for Salt to break into St. Bart's chapel, then we see her crawling along the sewers.

* FugitiveArc: Salt is named as a mole by a captured Cold War derelict, making the CIA after her. She escapes house arrest, then reconnects with her Soviet spy comrades. However, when Salt learns that her superiors are planning a rogue operation that will trigger a nuclear war, she works feverishly to undo their plans. This makes Evelyn Salt kill-on-sight by American and Soviet forces.

* MeaningfulName: Ted Winters, [[spoiler: whose name subtly recalls Russia.]]

* BorrowedBiometricBypass: No surgery is involved, but [[spoiler: Winters]] does use the unconscious ([[spoiler:dead, in the director's cut]]) President's fingerprints to confirm the launch codes.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Evelyn Salt.

''Salt'' is an American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Kurt Wimmer and Brian Helgeland, and starring Creator/AngelinaJolie, Creator/LievSchreiber, Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor and Creator/AugustDiehl.

* StunGuns: Salt uses a taser to knock out and then "puppeteer" a police car driver.

* ForcedToWatch: Salt is forced to watch [[spoiler:her husband]] get drowned while chained onto the floor of a boat. [[spoiler:{{Justified}} as a SecretTestOfCharacter for Salt, to make sure she was still loyal to Russia. She pretends it doesn't affect her to throw them off their guard, then stabs her handler to death with a broken vodka bottle and kills everyone in the building.]]

* TykeBomb: Essentially what a Russian sleeper agent is. [[spoiler: Born in Russia to Mr and Mrs Chenkhov, our heroine was taken from her parents as a baby and brought up/trained by the KGB. At around nine or ten she was brought into the US and was given the identity of Evelyn Salt, an American child who had recently died in a car crash along with her parents.]]

* CombatStilettos: Defied. One of the first thing Salt does when she goes on the run is take off her heels. She wears flat boots for the rest of the movie.

* RealityEnsues: For the bulk of the film, Salt's rather serious mass/strength disadvantages are ignored in her fight scenes....until she goes up against Winters.

* DeepCoverAgent: During the Cold War, the plan was to send dozens of them into American society, and for all of them to attack different highly placed American targets on a given day. [[spoiler: Salt is one as well.]]

* ColdNameMole: [[spoiler:Secret Service agent Ted Winters is the last Russian DeepCoverAgent Salt goes up against in the movie.]]

* TheMole: A great many characters.

* ForcedToWatch: Salt is forced to watch [[spoiler:her husband]] get shot. [[spoiler:{{Justified}} as a SecretTestOfCharacter for Salt, to make sure she was still loyal to Russia. She pretends it doesn't affect her to throw them off their guard, then stabs her handler to death with a broken wine bottle and kills everyone in the building.]]

* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The FBI chief frees Salt, on the promise she'll hunt the rest of the KAs]].

* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: [[spoiler:Salt herself. She started as a KGB, later SVR, SleeperAgent inserted into the United States as a child and joined the CIA, then gets outed by her own SVR handler as part of ThePlan and goes on the lam. Problem was, she'd [[GoingNative gone native]] after her German husband pulled out all the stops to get her freed after she was captured in North Korea on a CIA assignment, and after they kidnap and later murder him, she fakes carrying out her part of the sleeper agents' plan, kills her handler, then infiltrates the infiltrators to completely wreck their attempt to start WorldWarIII.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The fanatical sleeper agents, especially [[spoiler: Winters and the suicide bomber who used being a NATO agent and White House liaison as his cover.]]

* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: [[spoiler:Salt herself. She started as a KGB, later SVR, SleeperAgent inserted into the United States as a child and joined the CIA, then gets outed by her own SVR handler as part of ThePlan and goes on the lam. Problem was, she'd [[GoingNative gone native]] after her German husband pulled out all the stops to get her freed after she was captured in North Korea on a CIA assignment, and after they kidnap and later murder him, she fakes carrying out her part of the sleeper agents' plan, kills her handler, then infiltrates the infiltrators to completely wreck their attempt to start WorldWarIII.]]
* DrowningPit: The way [[spoiler: Salt's husband]] dies.

* CyanidePill: Subverted. When in custody, Salt pretends to have swallowed one, just so she could be transferred to ER where she is able to overpower the surprised staff.

* ActionGirl: Salt, naturally.
* {{Adorkable}}: Mike.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Russian president Boris Matveyev bears more than a passing resemblance to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin Boris Yeltsin]]; his name isn't exactly very differentiated from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev Dimitri Medvedev]]'s either.

* ProtagonistTitle

* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: [[spoiler:Salt herself. She started as a KGB, later SVR, SleeperAgent inserted into the United States as a child and joined the CIA, then gets outed by her own SVR handler as part of ThePlan and goes on the lam. Problem was, she'd [[GoingNative gone native]] after her American husband pulled out all the stops to get her freed after she was captured in North Korea on a CIA assignment, and after they kidnap and later murder him, she fakes carrying out her part of the sleeper agents' plan, kills her handler, then infiltrates the infiltrators to completely wreck their attempt to start WorldWarIII.]]

* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: The Russian President]].

* IfIWantedToKillYou: At the end, Salt points out to Peabody that she had plenty of opportunities to kill far more people than she actually did - including him - and didn't take them, as a sign of good faith. [[spoiler:He lets her escape to track down her fellow sleepers afterwards.]]