Synopsis
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 relentless FBI agent.
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Cast
- Michael DouglasPete Garrison
- Kiefer SutherlandDavid Breckinridge
- Eva LongoriaJill Marin
- Martin DonovanWilliam Montrose
- Kim BasingerSarah Ballentine
- Ritchie CosterThe Handler
- Blair BrownNational Security Advisor
- David RaschePresident Ballentine
- Kristin LehmanCindy Breckinridge
- Raynor ScheineWalter Xavier
Recommendations
- 75
Christian Science Monitor
Michael Douglas plays US Secret Service agent Pete Garrison, and his jaw has never seemed tighter. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
It is encouraging that well-crafted thrillers are still being made about characters who have dialogue, identities, motives and clean shirts. - 70
Los Angeles Times
An unassuming thriller, a nifty piece of genre filmmaking without frills or self-importance. It's a throwback, if you will, to the days of B pictures, when formula movies were made with a maximum of skill and a minimum of pretense. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
A slick enough thriller about a presidential assassination attempt. It is also a rather mechanical, soulless affair that avoids politics or anything else that might clearly define who these characters are and why we should care. - 58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
No, it's not the big screen version of "24." For one thing, Sutherland is in the wrong role. - 50
L.A. Weekly
Sentinel works overtime to suggest what a thrill-a-minute world its characters inhabit; but only during the last 20 minutes does the movie's pulse (or ours) raise above a flatline. The actors look uniformly unhappy to be there - except for Basinger, who seems lost in a lithium haze. - 50
Chicago Tribune
Amid the nervousness Douglas and Sutherland do what they can to enliven their warring stereotypes. And now and then, blessedly, The Sentinel nudges toward camp. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
Looking back, 1993 was a golden age for thriller cinema. That was the year Hollywood hatched both "In the Line of Fire" and "The Fugitive," the two obvious and way superior antecedents for the very humdrum B-movie mash-up The Sentinel.
