Conrad Coates, David Rasche, Eva Longoria
Pete Garrison, a U.S. Secret Service agent who heads the First Lady's detail, is being framed as traitor in a plot to assassinate the President. Whoever is framing Garrison knows he's vulnerable becau...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 29, 2006
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Stats: 3,623 reviews
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June 19, 2009"In 141 years, there's never been a traitor in the Secret Service.... Until Now."
A secret service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the president. He must clear his name and foil another assassination attempt while on the run from a relentless ...( read more) -
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January 7, 2009Pretty decent thriller about a plot to kill the American president (played by David "Sledgehammer" Rasche, now if that isn't funny enough). While it adds not much new to the genre, uses ideas from movies like "In the Line of Fire" or "The Fugitive" it is still pretty well done an...( read more)
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December 20, 2008Excellent thriller about a secret service agent (Michael Douglas) who is framed for a plot to kill the president. New role for Eva. Kiefer is gorgeous.
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October 14, 2008It's been 19 years since Gordon Gekko used "Wall Street" to let us know that greed is good. Now, Michael Douglas takes the GG persona and morphs it into a Secret Service agent, Pete Garrison. Guess what? It works! This is a solid political thriller that kept me guessing. The deta...( read more)
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August 23, 2009This was pretty recent. Looked older than it was, probably because of Michael Douglas.
Critic Reviews
April 22, 2006
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
April 21, 2006
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
A well-constructed and genuinely tense thriller. full review
April 21, 2006
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
A fairly by-the-numbers route through shootings, framings, diabolical plots and lots of dark-suited Secret Service types talking frantically into their shirt cuffs. (Watch closely, and you'll figure o... full review
April 21, 2006
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Rife with meaningless hugger-mugger, the movie is no In the Line of Fire. full review
April 21, 2006
Kyle Smith, New York Post
The Sentinel is so bland that it wants only to be as good as TV. full review
April 20, 2006
Claudia Puig, USA Today
It's a competent, if forgettable and implausible, thriller with some decent acting on the part of Sutherland and Michael Douglas as Secret Service agents. full review
April 20, 2006
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
At a time when American audiences seem grateful for the opportunity to drool at mindless horror trash, it is encouraging that well-crafted thrillers are still being made about characters who have dial... full review
April 20, 2006
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
It's a pity that a film with so much promise descends into such lazy predictability. full review
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