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The Sentinel

Conrad Coates, David Rasche, Eva Longoria, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Basinger, Martin Donovan, Michael Douglas

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  read more... )se he's hiding a monumental secret. Garrison goes on the run, pursued by investigative agent David Breckinridge and Jill Marin, a tough and ambitious young agent. Until recently, Breckinridge was one of Garrison's best friends. Marin requested the work detail with Breckinridge because Garrison, while leading a field instruction exercise at the Secret Service Academy, told Jill that Breckenridge was the best investigator in the Service. Now, Garrison must nail the real mole and save the President's life.

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  • mrpopcorn
    June 19, 2009
    mrpopcorn
    "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)FBI agent.

    REVIEW

    Aging actor Michael Douglas stars in "The Sentinel" (as in sentry or guard, not newspaper) as a Secret Service Agent in a film that revolves around a plot to assassinate the sitting President. Yes, Clint Eastwood walked in similar shoes in 1993's "In the Line of Fire", and with more satisfying results. Nonetheless "The Sentinel" is not just a derivative of Eastwood's film, but a whole slew of political thrillers shot in the Washington D.C. area. Douglas' film, though, does one better. "The Sentinel" is an overcomplicated thriller that deals not only with an assassination plot but with double-crossing, treason, White House infidelity, a tattered relationship between longtime friends, a rookie's first time out, as well as any number of twists that would likely give something away. "The Sentinel" has so many different plot lines on its plate at any given time it's amazing it didn't lose focus more often than it did. Even though "The Sentinel" was engaging, and occasionally puzzling, given the current political climate, and the precariousness of world events, a much more interesting and complex film about an assassination plot could have been made.
  • Darksome
    June 9, 2009
    Darksome
    Got much better as the movie went on, quite interesting.
  • ironclad1609
    January 7, 2009
    ironclad1609
    Pretty 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)d combines a cast of good names. Kiefer Sutherland doesn't have more to do than channel Jack Bauer really and Michael Douglas is the innocent man on the run. That's entertaining, sometimes a bit rushed, sometimes not entirely believable and the ending isn't exactly a big shocker either, but never boring. There are worse ways to spend 100 minutes. Fans of the genre or the actors should be satisfied enough.
  • thmtsang
    December 20, 2008
    thmtsang
    Excellent 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.
  • stopitgoaway
    October 14, 2008
    stopitgoaway
    It'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)il work in showing the security precautions taken by the SS on behalf of the President and First Lady was likewise intriguing. All the leads were pretty good but, try as I might, I could not accept Eva Longoria as a Secret Service agent. Whereas Jodie Foster just made you suspend belief and really think she was FBI agent Starling in "Silence of the Lambs", you do not get the same feeling with Longoria. Nevertheless, this is a fun film, escapist entertainment with the Beltway as the backdrop.
  • thunder906
    October 17, 2009
    thunder906
    Kiefer Sutherland he is my favorite actor
  • jimrin
    October 14, 2009
    jimrin
    Relatively above average thriller.
  • RThornhill
    September 23, 2009
    RThornhill
    Lots of star power but not much else.
  • aaroniemcwonley
    August 23, 2009
    aaroniemcwonley
    This was pretty recent. Looked older than it was, probably because of Michael Douglas.
  • eugenialuxemburgo
    August 7, 2009
    eugenialuxemburgo
    i though it will be bad, but actually i like it
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