It was nonsense. It forced her to improvise a ridiculously dangerous escape and chase, in which it was highly probable she'd be captured or killed, and thus unable to assassinate the Russian president.
That's the huge flaw in the plot: one the one hand we're supposed to believe that Orlov has planned this Day X 30 years ago and set it in motion; what we see though is a series of improvisations and a scheme that depends on one person, Salt, alone, taking on and beating dozens of highly trained secret service and FBI agents, and winning each and every encounter. Jumping from bridges onto moving vehicles. Crashing the police car and walking away from it without a scratch.
The same with Orlov: his escape from CIA custody was pretty damn unlikely. One old man killing three agents in the elevator then walking out the door.
We know at the end that Salt was supposed to be a patsy to cover Winter. But Salt should have wondered why the hell she had been exposed, endangering her and her mission. She knew she was supposed to be identified, and let herself be captured and made another absurd escape from the police). She could have done that anyway, without Orlov outing her at all.
And an unrelated issue: at the end she is going to kill all the other sleeper agents. Not caring that like her, they had no choice and maybe might desperately want to escape from their "duty". Orlov deserved his death, the others were cannon fodder.
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den09
12 years ago
PLOT: why dint the cops go after Orlov in the same heavy ham-fisted way they went for Salt? ... it was all a bit daft (but entertaining all the same )
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Impulse_TJ16
12 years ago
It was nonsense. It forced her to improvise a ridiculously dangerous escape and chase, in which it was highly probable she'd be captured or killed, and thus unable to assassinate the Russian president.
How is that a flaw in the plot? That was exactly what they wanted. Orlov didn't want that but Liev's character did. He felt that Salt had went soft and started to have feeling for America and wanted to test her. If she were to die or to be captured it would've been ok in his book; she was certainly the best but ultimately expendable since there are other capable agents, including himself, that could carry out the task just as well as she could.
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AlBFine
11 years ago
We need to suspend our disbelief, these are movies (stories) not history.
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kinsayder
11 years ago
True but uninteresting. Assuming the filmmakers gave some thought to creating a coherent story and weren't just pulling random events out of a hat, it's legitimate to ask questions about characters' motives - just as (hopefully) the writer and director were doing.
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Red-Fred
10 years ago
We know at the end that Salt was supposed to be a patsy to cover Winter. But Salt should have wondered why the hell she had been exposed, endangering her and her mission. She knew she was supposed to be identified, and let herself be captured and made another absurd escape from the police). She could have done that anyway, without Orlov outing her at all.
She clearly did wonder why she had been exposed, given the fact that she immediatly took action by taking the spider with her on her escape.
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