A critic recently described modern films as overpaid people running away from explosions. With, he could have added, a liberal dose of helicopters and swarms of armed response police teams. The basic story line of "The Sentinel" is so trite and has featured in so many movies that you wonder why anyone would ever want to trot it out again. Presumably, it is just a cynical means of lining the pockets of all concerned. The direction is uninspired, unimaginative and strictly formulaic. The film is far too long and could easily lose half an hour. And, as with so many modern movies, the music score is as overblown as it is dull. As one of the previous reviewers stated, this should have gone straight to television or video. You know you are watching a bad film when you are spending more time trying to spot Michael Douglas's cosmetic surgery scars than you are following the plot.
Review of The Sentinel
