: The Sentinel
I wanted to like this. It looked interesting from the previews. Unfortunately, it’s rather pathetic. The concept that there could be a mole in the Secret Service is the lure, and the idea that our hero is the fall guy and has to prove himself innocent while on the run from the feds is the intriguing action, but the film’s choice of villain is obvious and stereotypical. The film starts out well but peters out into an anti-climatic nothing. I also didn’t like that our “hero,” Michael Douglas’ Secret Service agent, was having an affair with the first lady and that’s why some of his actions appear suspicious. Not only is that lame, unrealistic, unprofessional, and immoral, but we’re supposed to feel sympathy for this idiot? Worse, he’s apparently gotten himself into this kind of trouble in the past. I had zero respect for this moron and therefore I didn’t really care if he got caught, found the mole, or got the president killed. In other words, with me not caring about the characters, I didn’t care about the movie. The worst part was the films’ laissez-faire attitude toward this indiscretion, making it seem almost heroic. Disgusting.
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