by Phillip Ellis

Created on: April 15, 2008

The Sentinel is basically 24': the movie, as simple as. Just as the highly popular America TV series was over complicated nonsense, this is the exact opposite, the look of a derivative TV movie hybrid with Kiether Sutherland trying to cash in , any way he can before the show loses its edge and appeal. If the fans of 24 watch this then it certainly will lose viewers. Michael Douglas is another coming to the end of his career and is suitably cast as the aging presidential bodyguard coming to the end of that career.

If you mix Clint Eastwoods, In the Line of Fire' with Kevin Costner's, No Way Out', then that's what you have here. It's not a brainy thriller in anyway and nowhere near as classy as those two, especially Costner's thriller. You are not required to work anything out during the ninety minutes and it's about as breathless as a slug race. You are sold the obvious bum steers on who the traitor or traitors might be and delivered the ending you expect. The only refreshing part of the narrative is there's not a Muslim bad guy to be seen anywhere, although the actual accomplishes and paymaster's motives are odd to say the last.

-The Plot-

Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) is a career Secret Service agent, a legend in the service after being one of the men who took a bullet for Reagan, now assigned to the protection of President Ballentine (David Rasche). On the day Agent Garrison takes on Agent Marin (Eva Longria), under his wing, it's also the day the president faces an assignation plot, one secret service man dead already and the threat seemingly coming from within. There's has never been any act of treason in the Secret Services 144 year history and Garrison is not about to let it happen on his watch. The problem is he is quickly the number one suspect when he fails the internal lie detector test, meaning the appointed investigative officer in Agent Breckenridge (Kiether Sutherland) has to follow that up. But the two have history and its not long before Garrison thinks he has been put in the frame because of that, soon on the run with only one person to turn to

-The Cast-

Michael Douglas ... Pete Garrison
Kiefer Sutherland ... David Breckinridge
Eva Longoria Parker ... Jill Marin (as Eva Longoria)
Martin Donovan ... William Montrose
Ritchie Coster ... The Handler
Kim Basinger ... 1st Lady Sarah Ballentine
Blair Brown ... National Security Advisor
David Rasche ... President Ballentine
Kristin Lehman ... Cindy Breckinridge
Raynor Scheine ... Walter Xavier
Chuck

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