Secret Service Agent Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) is having a stressful day. Not only is he sleeping with the First Lady, he's also the chief suspect in the hunt for a mole planning to assassinate the President. On the run and desperate to find the truth, things get harder for Garrison when his former protégé Agent David Breckenridge (Kiefer Sutherland), who knows exactly how his mentor will think and act, is appointed to lead the manhunt.

So this is what Kiefer Sutherland does between seasons of 24, he goes off and films what could easily be 24: The Movie. Okay, so there isn't any of that real-time nonsense here, but the plot points all seem like 24 off-cuts. Sutherland is essentially playing the same character and there's even some segments of split-screen action to make the comparison even easier.

That's not to say that The Sentinel is a bad film though. It's actually an average thriller, with just enough thrills and spills, plus a final twist that is both obvious and yet perfectly credible, to keep you entertained for 100 minutes. Definitely worth a rent, if not necessarily a purchase.

The transfer is every bit as sharp and detailed as you'd expect from a contemporary big studio outing. While the film itself isn't exactly packed full of action scenes, the 5.1 audio mix still makes use of the surrounds, especially during scenes where garbled radio intercepts are laid over one another in the surround speakers. Extras include a surprisingly interesting commentary by the director and writer, four deleted scenes and an alternate ending, and a pair of short featurettes exploring the work of the Secret Service.

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