Michael Douglas, Kim Basinger, Keifer Sutherland, Eva Longoria, and Sledge Hammer as the President. With a cast like that, one would expect a clever movie to be coming their way. But after watching it, I found myself just kind of nodding. It was good, I guess, but it was nothing memorable.
There's a plot to assassinate the president, and it's being perpetrated by a mole in the Secret Service. Meanwhile, one of the agents is having an affair with the First Lady, and through a quick blackmail, he gets fingered for being the mole. Naturally, he can't be taken in or he's done for, so he escapes and works to solve the mystery himself.
Everything in this movie is average. There's no spectacular plot twist or over the top unique characters. There's almost nothing we haven't seen in a hundred other films before. What this amounts to is an action thriller that delivers a fairly decent storyline, fairly decent characters, and an easy to follow plot that moves leisurely along the ride it delivers.
It seems a bit unbelievable that an agent could carry on an affair with the first lady. Granted we never learn how long the affair went on, but we do know it affected another friendship with the service because it was misunderstood. It's also a little hard to swallow that some random guys would get high level clearance to carry firearms into a summit like they had. This is never explained; I suppose we're to assume their "connections."
In the end, it was an easy movie. Just one that gives you a straight forward story and action, and meanders its way through to its inevitable ending.
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