The Sentinel

I think this is the best movie about the United States Secret Service that I have seen. Michael Douglas plays a guard who is accused of plotting to kill the president and is on the run from fellow agents. There is a lot of violence which is expected for this type of movie and mild language but not a lot of sex (there is one scene which is not graphic that shows an affair between Pete Garrison and the First Lady). At the end of the movie it is revealed that the SAIC (special agent in charge) who leads the protection team for the president is actually a conspirator in an assassination plot while the president spoke at a meeting for world leaders in Canada. Fortunately, the plot is foiled by the force including Agent Garrison and Keifer Sutherland (who plays his good friend who is a member of the protective intelligence unit) and he eventually retires from the Secret Service. The subject of PTSD is shown in this movie when Michael Douglas’s character who was involved in the 1981 assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan (a fictional portrayal of Tim McCarthy who was an actual Secret Service agent who heroically shielded President Reagan and took a bullet in his stomach) suffers from PTSD and has a nightmare about the event in the very beginning of the film. Overall, I think this would be good for young teenagers who are interested in the Secret Service and what those in the force have to do in order to guard the life of our president and this country. It’s definitely better than In The Line Of Fire with Clint Eastwood and the recent Olympus, London and Angel Has Fallen movies. Very good movie!

This is an awesome movie. Jam packed with action, thrills, and edge-of-your-seat suspense, this is one of the finest action thrillers I've seen. Michael Douglas plays a Secret Service agent falsely accused of plotting to assassinate the President. So, he's left trying to find the truth while evading his own men. Violence is the biggest issue in the movie. People are shot countless times, and most gunshots are fatal. Several dead bodies are seen, some with accompanying pools of blood. Several explosions as well. Language consists of several "d**n"s, "h**l"s, and some "s**t"s. Sex is minor: there is one very brief, non-graphic scene of passion between the First Lady and the Douglas character; their affair is a major plot point, resulting in Douglas's blackmail.