a secret service guy got the chance to shank the first lady whenever and wherever he could his hands on her butt? a first lady would take the risk to have an affair with one of her secret service guys? the guy would pass the lie detector just by swallowing some pills openly and fooled the experts? would it be possible to have a mole in the secret service involved in the assassination attempt of the potus? would a well trained secret service guy still wore his pitch dark sunglasses in a mall involved in a shoot out? was this guy wearing a google eyepiece so dark that he still could see clearly where the killer was? in order to avoid any possibility of the assassination, all the chief of the secret service would flip a coin to decide which car would carry the potus? gee, what a stupid and ridiculous screenplay was this?! only the fools could be fooled by this brain-dead script and praised it being great. are we that stupid to be so easily fooled? judging by the 6.1 rating, there are indeed lot of low i.q. guys out there, and all i could wish is none of them is among the secret service to protect the potus. but on the second thought, who would miss the opportunity if he could taste the saliva of the first lady rain or shine? yeah, in your wet dream, stupid.

When Secret Service agent Pete Garrison is approached be on old informant who claims to have knowledge of a plot to kill the president he is a little sceptical. The informant suggests that the assassins have somebody working for them within the Secret Service… something that has never happened before. When a member of the Secret Service is murdered the threat is taken very seriously and everybody in the president's protection detail is polygraphed… one man fails: Pete Garrison! What we know is that he was having an affair with the first lady and lied to protect her but the rest of the Secret Service, in particular chief investigator David Breckinridge, believe him to be the traitor. It will be a race against time for Garrison to find the real traitor and save the president before he is caught himself.This was a decent enough film with an interesting enough story and some good action; unfortunately it had some flaws too; most notably we didn't know enough about the bad guys or why they want to kill the US President, it also seemed a little far-fetched that a Secret Service agent would have an affair with the first lady. The cast did a fine job; Michael Douglas was believable as Garrison, and Kiefer Sutherland was good as Breckinridge… even if one couldn't help thinking his best known character; 24's Jack Bauer would have been more exciting! As the film approaches its end the tension mounts nicely and we get an exciting shootout. Overall this was a moderately entertaining thriller; worth watching on television or picking up if it is in the bargain bin.

The Sentinel did not meet my expectations, but I still think this movie is worth watching. The plot has potential, but unfortunately it is not developed properly. There are many implausible happenings in the movie and the part devoted to chasing the mole takes too long. It's unfortunate that none of the elements in the script distinguishes the movie from other action/crime/thriller movies.A short description: Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas), a secret service agent, is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the president. His colleague David Breckinridge (Kiefer Sutherland) starts an investigation to unmask the mole. Thus begins the struggle for Pete Garrison to prove his innocence.But apart from the plot I think the actors did a great job. I especially liked the acting of Kim Basinger who played the role of the First Lady. She managed to make her a credible, funny and attractive woman.In short, it is a fun movie to watch but don't have high expectations.

Secret Service operative Michael Douglas uncovers a conspiracy within the Secret Service to murder the President. Unfortunately the fact that he is having an affair with the President's wife means that it is easy to frame him for the plot, especially as chief investigator Kiefer Sutherland is deeply resentful of him, believing that Douglas had an affair with his wife.The plot keeps moving, there are decent action sequences, there is a moderate amount of jeopardy as far as the President and Douglas' character, and there is a satisfactory resolution.But the main problem with this movie is that it is utterly unexceptional, and this is exemplified by the fact that every part could have been played by pretty much any reasonably well-known actor. None of them is written with any sense of individualism, and none of the actors in the movie stamps their character with anything exceptional.It passes the time adequately but leaves no aftertaste.