The Sentinel – Wem kannst du trauen? (2006)

The Sentinel – Wem kannst du trauen?: Directed by Clark Johnson. With Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria, Martin Donovan. A Secret Service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the President. He must clear his name and foil another assassination attempt while on the run from a Secret Service Protective Intelligence Division agent.

“Spoiler!!! Stop now if you donu0026#39;t know the ending. I hate Tom Cruise Mission Impossible bastardizations. In the old TV series that used to be one of my all time favorites, Mr. Phelps was the voice of God. He was the ultimate Good Guy. Cruiseu0026#39;s updated version of MI (No. 1) turned Mr. Phelps into the Bad Guy. Thatu0026#39;s like making Tonto the Bad Guy who does in the Lone Ranger. I hate movies — or novels — that do that, where it turns out that the DA prosecuting the innocent accused killer turns out to have done the murder himself, or the Vice President turns out to be the mole from the whatever enemy who poisons the President — or in the case of the Sentinel, the head of the Secret Service turns out to be the Bad Guy about to kill the Prez. I warned you, thatu0026#39;s a huge spoiler. But to me, that kind of plot is already spoiled. As the main revelation of the movie, it stinks.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBesides that, even if you donu0026#39;t have any more trust in your leaders than to give credence to u0026quot;Mr. Phelpsu0026quot; turnabouts, Sentinel has some other gaping holes just too big to let slide. Maybe, just maybe, you could buy that the First Lady is having an affair with her SS detail chief behind the Prezu0026#39;s back. Thatu0026#39;s not impossible. Presidents have affairs, why not First Ladies? But can you really believe a guy could rise to the top of the Service itself without ever having been fully screened? Really! You think? And what was that mystery terror organization behind the plot, and how did they get onto the SS headu0026#39;s entanglement with the now-defunct KGB? Hmmnh? Another poser: Can anyone explain how that Xavier loser guy got all that insider info about the First Ladyu0026#39;s affair with Douglas to begin with — if you tell me it was the Head of the Service feeding it to him, then why the whole rest of the movie? He would have just removed the Douglas character for cause from the outset, donu0026#39;t cha know? The cast was good and the acting was varsity level. I liked that Michael Douglas gets to act his age, and the plot doesnu0026#39;t let him get away with being a 60 year old superstud who can outrun the young agents under his charge. He is slow, and he gets winded quickly. I liked Keifer. I never watched 24, but now I think Iu0026#39;d like it. And it was good to see Kim Basinger again, after all those years when she dropped out.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf you ignore the plot holes and the revolting spoiler, you could really like the movie for what it shows you about the inner workings of the Secret Service, one of the all-time real success stories of government service. A Beltway insider who should know told me that that part of the film was A+, and Iu0026#39;ll take his word for it.”