spanx' DVD watchlist: THE SENTINEL

first of all,
Eva Longoria does absolutely nothing for this picture;
she's not even very pleasing eye candy.

she's simply in the cast, apparently,
to draw in the Desperate Housewives demographic.
I miss Renee Russo.


that being said,
MICHAEL DOUGLAS & KIEFER SUTHERLAND
tear up the screen just like Harrison Ford & Tommy Lee Jones did in The Fugitive
more than a decade ago.

and this new, glossy, wonderfully paced film
will remind you of another slick Secret Service saga,
Clint Eastwood & John Malkovich's In The Line Of Fire.

yup,
these three films all have the same tight "Cat & Mouse" tension,
well-executed action sequences that are not gratuitous,
and plots that don't insult a moviegoer's intelligence,
but rather,
seem to fit and lock in like well-designed one-thousand piece jigsaw puzzles.


Kiefer, congrats on your Best Actor in a Dramatic Series win for "24";
this movie turns things around with your senior co-star in the Jack Bauer role.


And Michael Douglas?
He's consistently good, jowls and all....

More so in movies where he's a vulnerable flawed aging horndog
(basic instinct, fatal attraction);
and in movies where he's playing a righteous hero,
preferably somewhere near The White House
(the american president).

In this movie,
He's Both.

and that guarantees an excellent entertaining time for all!!