Best movie of this year hands down!

Too much of everything

Redundant and unnecessary.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I hadn't watched this flick for a long time and couldn't really remember it, i thought it was one of those standard decent thrillers, but watching it again had me prove myself wrong.This film is an hour and forty something minutes of running, chasing and people pointing guns at each other along with the clichéd "I was set up, so i have to go on the run and clear my name". The movie has some great talent, but the plot, directing, and editing is not very good, it's just something that we've seen too many times, so with a film that isn't all that at least give us a satisfying ending and have the First Lady divorce the President and leave with Michael Douglas's character, he says at one point in the film that he loves her, she does not really seem happy living that life in The White House, and the final end shot is Michael Douglas's character looking up at the White House top window and then he turns around and walks away/she looks out of the window at him and walks away from the window and that's that, Douglas's character is free and that's good, but him and the First Lady love each other and they cannot be together in the end...i guess that is just how things are sometimes. I wouldn't recommend this film if you want all things to play out well as i did.

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.

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.

Secret Service operative Michael Douglas uncovers a conspiracy within the Secret Service to murder the President. Unfortunately the fact that he is having an affair with the President's wife means that it is easy to frame him for the plot, especially as chief investigator Kiefer Sutherland is deeply resentful of him, believing that Douglas had an affair with his wife.The plot keeps moving, there are decent action sequences, there is a moderate amount of jeopardy as far as the President and Douglas' character, and there is a satisfactory resolution.But the main problem with this movie is that it is utterly unexceptional, and this is exemplified by the fact that every part could have been played by pretty much any reasonably well-known actor. None of them is written with any sense of individualism, and none of the actors in the movie stamps their character with anything exceptional.It passes the time adequately but leaves no aftertaste.