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Release Date: April 21st, 2006

Running Time: 1 hr. 48 min.

U.S. Box Office: $36,279,230

Rating: PG-13 for some intense action violence and a scene of sensuality.

Director: Clark Johnson

Starring: Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Basinger, Eva Longoria, Paul Calderon

Critics Reviews: 6 out of 10

Chicago Sun-Times In "The Sentinel," he is a Secret Service agent named Pete Garrison, who in 1981 took a bullet during the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, and is still guarding the president 25 years later. The movie doesn't identify President Ballentine (David Rasche) as belonging to either major party, although somehow his wife Sarah (Kim Basinger) looks to me like a Democrat. Roger Ebert

Reelviews The Sentinel is a movie in which one's perception of the proceedings will be impacted by a familiarity (or lack thereof) with the TV series 24. For those for whom that number means little more than "two dozen," The Sentinel is a Michael Douglas movie. For those for whom 24 has created a weekly television appointment, this is a Kiefer Sutherland movie in which Michael Douglas shows up to steal an inordinate amount of screen time. James Berardinelli

San Francisco Chronicle There is something easy and enjoyable about watching Michael Douglas in a state of psychic torture, desperate and friendless, on the lam and in danger, gritting his teeth and bulging his eyes and running for his life. Part of it's the unwholesome pleasure one gets in watching someone who looks really good in a suit get roughed up. Mick LaSalle

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