The Sentinel
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: April 21, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
20
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
EmpireKim Newman
Punchy and confronting, with another terrific turn from Seimetz. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Michael Douglas plays US Secret Service agent Pete Garrison, and his jaw has never seemed tighter. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It is encouraging that well-crafted thrillers are still being made about characters who have dialogue, identities, motives and clean shirts. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Implausible yet enjoyably diverting thriller. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
A well-constructed and genuinely tense thriller. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
An unassuming thriller, a nifty piece of genre filmmaking without frills or self-importance. It's a throwback, if you will, to the days of B pictures, when formula movies were made with a maximum of skill and a minimum of pretense. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Director Clark Johnson has an energetic style of filmmaking and a facile way with stunts and chase sequences. The result is a fairly stylish action thriller. We've seen plenty of suspense films in which a seemingly good guy is framed, so it helps when a director can pull off a few cinematic tricks to keep audiences on their toes. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Director Clark Johnson and screenwriter George Nolfi (adapting the novel by Gerald Petievich) do an excellent job of setting things up and getting the story underway. Unfortunately, some of their hard work is undone during the movie's final third. Read full review
63
PremiereJessica Letkemann
Ultimately all of the ado about men in shades and dark suits running around shooting and shouting at each other comes to a satisfying, if predictable, conclusion. Read full review
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