What a waste of my time!!!

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Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

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.

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 are two definitions for the word "sentinel"; a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching; a soldier stationed as a guard to challenge all comers and prevent a surprise attack, either definition I guess works for the plot, from director Clark Johnson (S.W.A.T.). Basically Secret Service Agent Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) became famous for taking a bullet for and saving the life of President Ronald Reagan, and now he is responsible for security for President Ballentine (David Rasche) and 1st Lady Sarah Ballentine (Kim Basinger), who has been having an affair with. Someone manages to make their way unnoticed into the White House and murder an agent, Walter Xavier (Raynor Scheine) has found evidence that there is a traitor in the secret service who plans to assassinate the President. Peter is of course looking into the case, but soon enough he becomes a suspect himself, with his former friend David Breckinridge (Kiefer Sutherland) and chief of security William Montrose (Martin Donovan) leading the investigation, and sure that he is the one that may have this plan. So Peter is trying to prove his innocence, find evidence of the real perpetrator, and of course stop them from succeeding in their assassination mission, obviously in the end this is all done. Also starring Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria as Jill Marin,, Kristin Lehman as Cindy Breckinridge and Jackie Burroughs as Mrs. Miller. Douglas despite getting older still manages to be mildly intense, Sutherland as always is confident and aggressive in his approach, Basinger has her moments being panicky and concerned, and Longoria has some good time on screen as well. I will be honest and say that I did not pay the fullest attention while I was watching, but I got the gist of the story, and I think that even if I had keep my eye on things I would have found it dull and boring anyway, so it is not an engaging and hardly worthwhile thriller. Adequate!

OK Let's see. I watched a movie last night........what was it again??? Oh that's right...The Sentinel. That sentence pretty much sums it all up, unfortunately. In spite of how much I really wanted to like this movie I just could not bring myself to do so.I mean it has Jack Bauer...er... sorry I mean Kiefer Sutherland, Michael Douglas, the lovely Eva Longoria and a host of other recognizable faces including Kim Basinger(as the 1st lady no less) and Martin Donovan. However regardless of all of this it turned out to be an utterly uninspired, predictable and forgettable collection of rehashed moments that seem all too familiar somehow. The blame can in my estimation not be laid at the feet of the principal actors here. Rather an uninspired script and less than adequate direction seems to be the main cause of this failing.Eva Longoria's character gets a good introduction and is then barely heard from again for the remainder of the film. The bad guys' motives are not explored or explained at all other than some poorly contrived nonsense about the former KGB. The character of Douglas' informant seems to have no plausible reason to posses the knowledge he has. There are several missed opportunities and redundancies in the story, and the list just goes on, in short the script was poorly written, predictable and not thought through as well as it really should have been. The mess of sub-plots just become convoluted and a distraction after a while.One could easily be forgiven for comparing "The Sentinel" to "In the line of Fire" which was by far a superior film despite having perhaps a simpler storyline. In short you know what "In The Line Of Fire" was about. It seems that the writer could not decide what "The Sentinel" should really be. Oh Well, next time maybe.....A good idea gone horribly wrong. If you are in the mood for this kind of film rather get hold of a copy of "In The Line Of Fire" with Clint Eastwood or even Kevin Costner in "No Way Out" instead.