some more movie bloggies

dogtooth (kynodontas, 2009) 
a Greek drama film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. 

i found the movie eccentric. 

A couple and their adult son and two adult daughters live in a fenced compound. The children have no knowledge of the outside world; their parents say they will be ready to leave once they lose a dogtooth, and that one can only leave safely by car. (Wikipedia)

salt

it's a spy/action-thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce. rumor has it that the movie was originally for tom cruise but the script was rewritten for jolie.

Cast

Angelina Jolie - Evelyn Salt, the film's protagonist and a CIA officer accused of being a KGB sleeper agent.

Liev Schreiber - Ted Winter, the head of the fictional CIA's Russia House and Salt's friend and colleague of 15 years..

Chiwetel Ejiofor - Peabody, an ONCIX agent in pursuit of Salt.

Daniel Olbrychski - Orlov, a Russian defector

August Diehl - Michael "Mike" Krause, Salt's husband

Olek Krupa - Russian President Matveyev

Hunt Block - United States President Lewis

PLOT 
(derived from Wikipedia)

evelyn salt interrogates a Russian defector, Orlov, who tells her about "Day X", an operation organized by a powerful russian which will lead to the destruction of the United States (consist of members called 'MOLES').

Orlov mentions that at the funeral of the late Vice President in New York City, the visiting Russian President will be killed by Russian spy Evelyn Salt. evelyn then was apalled by the accusation, attempted to contact her husband Mike, a German arachnologist, fearing for his safety.

Orlov escapes, prompting Evelyn (or called salt the entire movie) to escape — causing the CIA to think she is really a spy.

She flees to her apartment and finds her husband missing. Salt resumes and grabs essentials as well as a venomous spider.

After barely escaping a highway pursuit, Salt takes a bus to New York City. The next morning, she sneaks into the heavily guarded St. Bartholomew's Church where the Vice President's funeral is being held and shoots the Russian President. She then encounters Peabody where she surrenders but escapes the NYPD.

Salt grew up in the Soviet Union where Orlov taught her and many other children to obey him and ingratiate themselves to the American government. Then, when it came to Day X, he would command them to strike from various positions in the US.

Day X..

Day 1

Salt meets Orlov who congratulates her on her killing. He brings her to a river barge, where he tests her allegiance by having another agent kill Mike in front of her.

Day 2

involves seizing the United States' stock of nuclear weapons. Salt, who had gone to Orlov only to discover his plans, kills Orlov and everyone else on the barge. She then goes to the rendezvous set up by Orlov to meet a NATO mole.

The NATO mole and a disguised Salt went to the White House. Once inside, her NATO counterpart suddenly starts shooting at Secret Service agents and detonates a bomb. The Secret Service, along with Winter, rush the President to the lower bunker of the White House. Meanwhile, the President, believing Russia is preparing a nuclear strike against the US, begins to transmit the launch codes from the nuclear football. Salt infiltrates the bunker and kills the bodyguards. Winter picks up a gun and kills everyone but the President, whom he knocks unconscious.

salt then realized later on that winter was part of Orlov's plan all along. winter then attempted the nuclear football to start the sequence for launching nuclear missiles at Tehran and Mecca.

Salt asks Winter to let her in but before he opens the door, a news program reveals that the Russian President is not dead, but only placed in a near-death state from spider venom. winter realizes that Salt is not on his side but she manages to break in, and after an intense struggle, she succeeds in knocking him down. Just after she manages to abort the nuclear missile launch set up by Winter, agents break in and arrest her. Winter goes free, but later Salt uses her chains to strangle him.

last part of the movie..

salt is put on a helicopter with peabody, and explains everything to him. a skeptical Peabody finally realized salt's telling the truth after receiving an SMS saying that her fingerprints were found at the barge (the hideout for the so called MOLES where salt's husband mike was killed), confirmed salt's betrayal to Orlov. Peabody hit then uncuffed salt pretending he's doesn't believe her. peabody staged an act to let salt escape and jump off the chopper unobtrusively so she can find and kill other MOLES.

my movie experience would have been better if we got a better dvd rip.

here's a snippet...