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Special Agent Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) is convinced that a Neo-Nazi aryan disciple 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 Sarah Bellentine. He is relieved of his duties, but Garrison will not stop in trying to .. Read more
| Starring | Eva Longoria, Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Basinger |
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| Director | Clark Johnson |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama, Thriller |
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Special Agent Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) is convinced that a Neo-Nazi aryan disciple 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 Sarah Bellentine. He is relieved of his duties, but Garrison will not 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 protege, Agent Breckinridge (Kiefer Sutherland).
| Starring | Eva Longoria, Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Basinger, David Rasche, Martin Donovan, Ritchie Coster, Blair Brown |
|---|---|
| Director | Clark Johnson |
| Studio | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 48 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 48 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama, Thriller |
| Language | English, English Audio Description |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 29 Jan 2007 Blu-ray: 14 May 2007 Production year: 2006 |
| Format | DVD |
Sentinel...a slick American political thriller, based around the Secret Service and the protection of the American President. When top agent (Douglas)is framed for an inside plot to assainate the president, He uses his elite training to avert arrest and sets out to clear his name and find the real villains behind the plot. Hot in pursuit is his old friend and ex protege student (Sutherland) teamed with his new hotshot rookie and token eye candy played by Eva longoria of Desperate housewives fame.
Sentinel starts off well enough. It offers a nice perspective on how the secret service work, and feels authentic. It's stylishly filmed and grips from the off. You can sense unrest and feel the tension as the secret service work relentlessy around the president to ensure his safety, and avert any potential danger.
Despite all this,it still wreaks of other films in it's genre.Think 24 series 1 or The Fugitive, and your not far off, Albeit it is not in the same league as the afforementioned.
It quickly spirals into a VERY predictable story.The tension is all too soon lost, and there are no twists or turns to even make it slightly original or interesting. Sutherland is underused and is wasted in this roll. The 'baddies' are non-descript, typecast,cut and paste from any relatively similar film. The ending is diabolical and you will feel very 'is that it?' once the credits roll. The whole thing feels patchy and loses it's direction half way through.It all starts so stylishly well, and could have been something special, but sadly this effort will be all to quickly forgotten.
Roll on 24 the movie...
[Highly rated reviewer]
One word sums up this movie: pointless
Hollywood Veteran Michael Douglas shares centre stage with Kim Basinger, Keifer Sutherland and Eva Longoria in The Sentinel, the action thriller about the Secret Service, now released on DVD. Douglas, who carved a place for himself in celluloid history in classics such as Wall Street, also starring Charlie Sheen, stars as a Secret Service agent with a history. As the hero of the piece Douglas is flanked by small screen stars Sutherland and Longoria, coming out of the hit TV series 24 and... Read more
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