Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Martin Bradley A fairly dull conspiracy thriller which, despite a first-rate cast, never really did the business and is now largely forgotten. Michael Douglas is the Secret Service agent who is having an affair with the First Lady and is then set up as the prime suspect in a plot to assassinate the President. Other agents involved include Kiefer Sutherland, (very good), Eva Longoria, (totally wasted), and a thoroughly dislikeable Martin Donovan while the President is a barely seen David Rasche and Kim Basinger, the First Lady.Of course, what's happening in and around the White House at the moment far outweighs the dull shenanigans on display here and if Trump might seem like the Devil Incarnate, at least he is a lot more colourful, (and dangerous), than anyone involved in this picture. As a thriller it's watchable enough though I can just imagine what someone like Brian DePalma might have done with this material.

Nadine Salakov 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.

Andy Lambert Are you kidding film makers? You assemble a film cast like that and then waste it with weak screenplay. You have Kim but you keep her clothes on! You make Kiefer play the role he has done on 24 for the all this years. Even Michael struggles to give it any tension. Of course it is watchable but in the rush to cram the action in, the detail of the plot is lost. The fun you could have had with the relationship between Kiefer and Eva was just wasted and worst of all where was the believable Baddie? If it is on the box and there is not much else to watch, then give it a try, but I suspect you will end up wondering how this one missed so many memorable moments.

Leofwine_draca 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...