Special Agent Pete Garrison is convinced that someone has managed to infiltrate the White House. When a White House Agent is murdered, Garrison is framed and blackmailed over an affair with the First lady. He is relieved of his duties, but Garrison won't stop in trying to prove his innocence, and save the life of the President. While attempting to uncover the person behind it all, he comes into confrontation with his protégé, Agent Breckinridge, whom is convinced that he had an affair with his wife.....It's a pretty sound premise, Douglas having relations with the First Lady, and then being framed for treason, but it wreaks of In The Line Of Fire, and the similarities to 24 cannot be helped, because Sutherland is playing nothing more than Jack Bauer in a suit.And this is where the film makes it's first mistake. With the roles reversed, this could have been 24: the movie, that was floating Hollywood for an age, and Douglas would have played Sutherland's in a Gordon Gekko type way.It's slick enough, the film looks good, and there are a few good set pieces, but there are some things that cannot get out of your head.For instance, when we first meet Longoria, she is metaphorically stalked by an agent who cannot do anything but creepily stare at her, and it really doesn't sit right in the film.So all in all, it's a pretty acceptable thriller, but just perfunctory narrative slightly tarnishes the outcome.

The Sentinal definitely is entertaining. The movie also features strong performances by the lead actors. Michael Douglas, Kim Basinger, Eva Longoria, and Kiefer Sutherland all give good performances in their roles. The movie does have an interesting plot summary, and has good well done action scenes to fill out the plot. The action isn't like the shaky camera stuff, it's pretty clean cut scenes. I like the connections between some of the characters. Like Douglas and Basinger's relationship, yes it was adulterous, which is Of course wrong, but their relationship seems true and very believable in the film. Eva longoria's character didn't really have much of a connection with anyone, but I thought she did well with just herself. Sutherland is pretty good too, although I have seen better from him in other films. The movie isn't gonna win any academy awards or golden globes, but it certainly isn't a bad film at all. 7/10 for The Sentinal.

The Sentinel is a crime thriller film about a veteran United States Secret Service bodyguard who is suspected as a traitor after an attempted assassination of the president reveals that someone within the Service is providing information to the assassins.The film stars Michael Douglas as the veteran agent, Kiefer Sutherland as his protégé, Eva Longoria as a rookie Secret Service agent, and Kim Basinger in the role of the First Lady. A man who has devoted himself to serving the leader of the free world is accused of plotting against him in this thriller. Pete Garrison is a veteran Secret Service agent who has had a long and distinguished career helping protect the president of the United States. David Breckinridge is a fellow Secret Service agent who learned most of what he knows from Garrison and holds him in great respect. When intelligence data suggests that there is a mole within the Secret Service who is part of a plot to assassinate President Ballentine, Garrison launches an investigation to ferret out the rogue agent, and asks Breckinridge to go over the evidence with a fine-toothed comb. Breckinridge is shocked when the clues point to Garrison as the traitor within the Secret Service, but his sense of duty compels him to see that his former mentor is placed under arrest. Garrison eludes his captors and struggles to prove his innocence while tracking down the real conspirator and eluding the agents who were once his colleagues. As Breckinridge leads the search for Garrison, another ranking agent, Jill Marin plays devil's advocate, convinced that Garrison couldn't possibly be the rat in the house.It starts off well enough but quickly wears thin with too many plot holes and conventional action sequences.But nevertheless,it has full- tilt suspense mode from beginning to end.

. . . there was a discussion of how to translate a quite acceptable little novel into a $60 million star-studded movie. It went something like this (note: *EVERYTHING* that follows is a spoiler) Green Light Person (GLP): So. . . it's a movie about a plot to kill the President and the twist is, the assassins are being helped by an insider in the Secret Service itself.Pitcher: Yup. It's a zinger. The bad guys set up the movie's hero as the mole to deflect attention from the real mole.GLP: So after the assassination, the hero is on the run, trying to clear his name. Yes?P: Oh no. He's on the run before the assassination.GLP: So how does anyone know there's a mole if the assassination hasn't happened? P: The assassins tell everyone.GLP: Er, right. OK. But why raise the very idea of a mole? P: Well, um.. . If they didn't, then the hero wouldn't be framed. And then he wouldn't be chased everywhere.GLP: Ah. OK. So. . . the assassins with a mole let it be known they're going to kill the President thanks to help from a mole who isn't actually their mole but a different mole who isn't really a mole anyway. P: Exactly. Simple as that.GLP: Doesn't that strike you as, um. . . Odd? P: Ah, but. . . They're foreigners. The assassins. So they're bound to be odd.GLP: As well as incredibly stupid.P: Stupid? Hardly. They're incredibly clever. They spend a lot of time following our hero and use hi-tech surveillance to photograph him and the First Lady getting it on. The pictures, you see, are to blackmail our hero.GLP: Into doing what? P: Er, well, we haven't quite figured out that plot point yet.GLP: O-kay. . . So. They photograph our hero because they know of his affair with the President's missus. Who told them? P: Well, er, we haven't quite figured out that plot point yet.GLP: Hmmm. Wouldn't they be better off spending their time on preparations to kill the President rather than messing around with moles? P: But they don't need to prepare very much, their mole is so well placed, he can organise anything. Like, shooting down the Presidential helicopter with a surface to air missile! GLP: So that's how they kill the President. P: Eh? No. He's not on board.GLP: Their mole screwed up?P: Oh no. He knew all right.GLP: So how come they blow up the helicopter when the target is known NOT to be on board? P: Er. Ah. Well. . . we haven't quite figured out that plot point yet.GLP: Right. I see. . . Now then, how does our hero find out about the plot to kill the President? P: An informant tells him.GLP: The informant is one of the assassins? P: Heck no. He's a street bum. American as they come.GLP: So how does a street bum know that foreign assassins are going to kill the President with the help of a mole in the Secret Service? P: Well. . . we haven't quite figured out that plot point yet -- unless, unless. . . The assassins tell him!GLP: So these foreigners somehow know a Washington street bum and they also know this street bum is a paid informer working for the Secret Service? D'you think that's, um. . . remotely credible? P: Well. . . we haven't quite figured out that plot point yet. But, but: it's not just the informant. They murder another Secret Service agent to make it all the more. . . Credible.GLP: Why? Does he know of the assassination plan? P: No.GLP: Then why is he killed? P: I think, well, put it like this. . . we haven't quite figured out that plot point yet.GLP: Right. OK. Perhaps we'd better move on. Who're you thinking of casting? P: Keifer Sutherland.GLP: Ah! Keifer, running here and there, like in 24, action man, all that stuff. Yes, that'd work.P: Sorry, no. It's gonna be Michael. Michael Douglas who runs everywhere. Keifer's chasing him.GLP: Shouldn't it be the other way round -- I mean, Michael's a bit too old now for this kind of stuff? P: I think, well, put it like this. . . we haven't quite figured out that casting issue yet. But we can always shoot Michael long, convince everyone he's faster and fitter than Keifer who's 20 years younger.GLP: Ri-ii-ght. OK. That's the plot. That's the casting. What about the ending? Big set-piece, yes? P: You bet. It all takes place on the back steps of a service stairway inside some building or other in Canada.GLP: You're kidding me.P: No. It's definitely in Canada.GLP: Indoors. On some steps.P: You got it. GLP: OK. OK. Let me think about this. . . I don't understand the casting, I don't understand the plot -- P: Hey. No problem. We don't either.GLP: -- and I can't think why anyone with a single functioning brain cell would want to sit through it.P: Yeah, but, apart from that. . ?GLP: I'm not sure. P: Hey, did I say, we're casting Kim Basinger AND Eva Longoria?GLP: Wow! So what do they get to do in the movie?P: Absolutely nothing. GLP: OK. I'm sold. You're green-lit for $60 mill.