# I saw "The Sentinel" today!

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 22, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-sentinel-today/353713 "2006-04-22T00:55:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![CatsCradle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cab0a1/32.png) [@CatsCradle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatsCradle)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-sentinel-today/353713/1 "2006-04-22T00:55:29Z")

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Just saw _The Sentinel_ with Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland. All-in all, it was okay; it played like a _24 Special!Episode!_, complete with Kiefer essentially playing Jack Bauer-lite, perimeters, malls, student-against-mentor (hey…) and plot holes you can drive a truck full of nerve gas through. Still, though, it was a good turn-your-brain-off flick. Great for a matinee.

Eva Longoria made for great background eye candy, and Kim Basinger isn’t half bad either (she’s aged pretty well).

What I got a kick out of was the fact that three TV pop-culture icons were on display:

(1) Jack Bauer  
(2) Gabrielle

and

(3) President Sledge Hammer!

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**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-sentinel-today/353713/2 "2006-04-22T01:30:23Z")

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One thing I gotta know…is Keifer’s character the Secret Bad Guy?

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**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-sentinel-today/353713/3 "2006-04-22T05:22:08Z")

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[QUOTE=RikWriter]  
One thing I gotta know…is Keifer’s character the Secret Bad Guy?  
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I’m wondering that as well. For some reason, it seems like the obvious kind of “plot twist”.

Like that in

The Life of David Gale.

I never saw it but I guessed the twist from the trailors and premise.

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**Author:** ![CatsCradle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cab0a1/32.png) [@CatsCradle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatsCradle)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-sentinel-today/353713/4 "2006-04-22T05:26:03Z")

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[QUOTE=RikWriter]  
One thing I gotta know…is Keifer’s character the Secret Bad Guy?  
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You would think they’d do the obvious thing, but no.