Gripping. Chilling.
An entertaining style - rewinding the story multiple times, starting again from a different perspective, at 3 second after 12 noon, tying it all together in the end. I wondered how many more times they would rewind. But a mostly satisfying method.
I loved it and was thoroughly entertained.
Dennis Quaid skillfully portrays a secret service agent who once took a bullet for the president, and now, back on line, to speak, is doubted by some of his colleagues if he's got what it takes. He's not too sure, either.
The bad guys aren't so bad, just determined, and that's an intelligent and honest way of portraying reality - we like to demonize the enemy, paint them in ugly pictures, and in so doing, over-react, or react as they would have us, playing into their game, as the President suggests when tempted by aids to unleash a little firepower. "We're better than that," he says. Oh to have a President like that!
A varied cast with lots of twist and turns to the plot.
Forrest Whitacker is superb, but then he always is, playing an American tourist taking a break from family troubles, in the right place at the right time.
Great car chases and crashes ... filming that magnifies the intensity of the story. I don't recall the music; I presume there was some. I think that's a good thing for this kind of story.
A hint of politics here and there - a president who wants to build bridges rather than burn them - imagine that?
A top-rated entertainment. See it and have fun! Lots of fireworks!
