Rotten
A mediocre time-waster
Scott Tobias, AV Club
The Sentinel
In 141 years, there's never been a traitor in the Secret Service... until now.
2006 · 1h 48m · PG-13
Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Clark Johnson
Overview
Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently framed as a mole in an assassination attempt on the President due to the machinations of a blackmailer who knows the secret he is hiding. Disgraced, dismissed, and now a fugitive with two relentless federal investigators hot on his heels, Garrison must both clear his name and save the president from assassination.
Director and cast
- Clark Johnson Director
- Michael Douglas as Pete Garrison
- Kiefer Sutherland as David Breckinridge
- Eva Longoria as Jill Marin
- Martin Donovan as William Montrose
- Ritchie Coster as The Handler
- Kim Basinger as Sarah Ballentine
- Blair Brown as National Security Advisor
- David Rasche as President Ballentine
- Kristin Lehman as Cindy Breckinridge
- Raynor Scheine as Walter Xavier
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
35%
Tomatometer
Rotten
[The film] has more holes than Bush's war plan and employs less fluent English.
Bill Gallo, Village Voice
Fresh
Nobody's better than Michael Douglass as playing that guy who makes that big mistake, and then spends the rest of the movie trying to atone for it.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
If you're going to make a movie with the same title as a second-rate horror film, it should at least be as entertaining as that second-rate horror film.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Fresh
A well-constructed and genuinely tense thriller.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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