Stars: 2.5 out of 5
Overview
President Ashton (William Hurt) is attending a global war on terror in Spain. Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are two of the Secret Service agents assigned to protect him. This is the first action that Agent Barnes has been in since he took a bullet for President Ashton six months earlier. Shortly after the President is escorted to the stage in the plaza by the Secret Service, he is immediately shot twice by a rifle from a window. Chaos breaks out in the crowd, and more chaos ensues when bombs start exploding. Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker) is an American video taping the event. He believes that he has the picture of the man who shot the President. Several different people witness the event, and we see the events through their eyes to find the truth behind the shooting.
My Stupid Opinion
I gave this Movie 2.5 stars out of 5. When I saw the trailer in the theater, it looked Awsome, but it wasn't quite what I expected it to be. I thought that after the assasination attempt, The secret Service would figure out the shooter by asking the various people involved who saw the incident, and they with the help of Barnes would catch the bad guy, which to some extent it does, but it does it in a different way. Instead of working forward from the shooting, your are taken back 20 minutes or so before the shooting and see through the eyes of each of the main witnesses or people involved. After about the third one, it gets a bit redundant. I thought they could have made this movie much more intense by working forward rather than backwards. I also thought Forest Whitaker could have played a bigger role as well. It was still a movie worth seeing, I would just wait until it comes out on DVD. It reminded me of the Movie Snake Eyes with Nick Cage. Anyway, thats my stupid opinion, take it or leave it.
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