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hyped garbage

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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.

All Flash with a Dash of Soap, this Kinetic Political Thriller is big on Kinetics and Cheats on the Political Stuff. Michael Douglas, in His Sixties, is again up to the Bed Bouncing with Affairs and alleged Affairs. Kim Basinger is on Tranquilizers or something because Her expression never waivers and She has Far Away Eyes. Kiefer Sutherland Plays Jack Bauer (TV's 24) with another name.The Presidential Assassins, without any On Screen Motive, have a Mole in the Secret Service and that's the Primary Gitty Up in this So-So Movie. It All seems a bit Familiar and if it wasn't for all the Cinematic Camera Trickery like Whips, Fast Cuts, contrasting Visual Sources, and such the actual Plot would Fail the Polygraph test.Two of the most Interesting Inclusions are Barely Touched upon an never heard from again left Dangling somewhere, maybe on the Cutting Room Floor, or in the Sentinel (whatever that is). The Confidential Informant and the downing of a Helicopter are here and then Poof on to more Exciting Things like The First Lady Napping on Her Feet or staring out a window.The Ending is all Shouting and Confusion with a lot of Running around, Ducking here and Ducking there, Dodging Bullets with dazed Agents and Bad Guys. It all Adds up to Not Much but there may be Worse Movies out there. That's the Best that can be said.

THE SENTINEL is one of those cookie-cutter thrillers that's already been made before. In this film's case, it's a virtual reprise of IN THE LINE OF DUTY, with Michael Douglas taking on the Eastwood role of the dedicated presidential bodyguard battling wits with an assassin.The film could almost write itself, and sadly it turns out to be an absolutely generic Hollywood outing. Douglas is as strong as ever in a 'wronged man' type role, but everything that happens - every sub-plot, every little twist and turn - is so familiar, so predictable, so well choreographed in advance - that the ensuing film is difficult to like.THE SENTINEL throws plenty of stuff into the mix in hopes to make it stick. The most blatant is an extraneous Eva Longoria, added in an attempt to sex things up. Next up is Kiefer Sutherland, straight off the set of 24 and playing a similarly dedicated character.There are a handful of decent action sequences but Clark Johnson (also responsible for the similarly generic S.W.A.T.) is a letdown as director and there just isn't enough in the way of verve or style to make this in the least bit memorable. At least VANTAGE POINT had more going for it with the attempts at multiple points of view...

I saw the trailer at the time of the release, I said to myself; it seems like good story with good actors. Then I heard it's a flop, I said to myself; is it ? And if it is, so why is that ? Now I watched the movie, and knew why !! It's originally a novel written by Gerald Petievich. Then it got written for cinema by George Nolfi; or the one who wrote before (Timeline – 2003) and (Ocean's Twelve – 2004). I don't know (Nolfi) personally, but I bet, this guy must have used to sleep while writing scripts. Think not ? Then review with me the evidence, rather the evidences of that, based on this very movie.The list is truly endless : How Kiefer Sutherland thought that his wife is cheating on him with Michael Douglas ?? (one short scene for that wife, to clear the matter up, which begins and ends in nanosecond !). What the murder of the friend, at the start, got to do with the whole thing later (the one which the killer does in the daylight amongst a neighborhood ?!), it seems like Mr. Nolfi forgot about it all later ! Why the president's wife cheats on him ? Why the movie's Russians (New intelligence ? Mafia ?) want to assassin the president ? Originally, what was the need to blackmail his wife's sentinel earlier ? Douglas shoots one of them in the chest 3 times then interrogates him ?!!!! How the secret service knew about the cottage of Douglas's snitch ? How Douglas connects with Sutherland by the dead Russian guy's cell ? (I didn't get to understand that ever !). And finally, the biggest of them all : What did the American president do when he knew about the affair of his wife with her sentinel ? (Most probably he asked him for a sexual advice since Douglas did numerous hot love scenes with Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, and even Glenn Close !). We didn't see how that "love story" ended; which – as a whole – aside from degrading the serious tie-in between us and the characters, any characters, by disposing of their emotions away, it also makes this movie as a cross between a hastily made TV episode and a forgettable "V" crap !In other cases I can say "shut down your brain, and enjoy it", but I can't shut down my brain to that extent. In other cases I can say "Hey, the action was fine, so take it easy, and forget about it", but the action wasn't that fine. Frankly, this time the too many unsolved hows and whys did hurt. Director Clark Johnson comes from TV. He did some episodes from shows I highly don't like (this is another word for : terrible !), such as (La Femme Nikita), (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), (The West Wing), (NYPD Blue), and (The Shield)! Undoubtedly the man can make action, but not so special. Plus the editing was running so fast to push the heat up and to cover the script's holes up as well. Both ways the final product was hot on the outside, dead cold in the inside. I'm sure that in Hollywood, because of the always frantic industry, everything has to be rushed, yet with results range between professional and not bad, except for one factor named : the script, where the many mistakes have to be shameful !What really gets on your nerves is that the movie has some auspicious talents. Michael Douglas is the top instance. Every 62-year-old man has to be so proud with the way he looks and moves in here. However eventually, I was disappointed. He, as a producer, is so known as smart one. The die-hard commercial movies he produced the least thing can be said about them is "interesting". Now it doesn't need any comparison to know that (The Sentinel) will remain in the bottom of them !It's where we say "Good movie, but could have been very good". Now we have straight pure action thriller, with no in-betweens. The worst about it is being as emotionless as the real sentinels' looks, and mindless to bothering degree. I give it 6 out of 10 with a clear conscience. Still the last how and why this movie gives are : How haphazard some promising stories are made these days ?, and why their makers don't look any embarrassed after ?…Finally, if I have just one more thing to say, then I don't think that Eva Longoria has an attractive butt, that black guy must have been incredibly desperate !