For all the Frederick Forsyth fans, who like assassination plots this is the movie for you ! The movie fits the present context of the world which is filled with terror, revenge and back-stabbing. The movie starts off with an epic peace summit at which leaders of 150 nations gather together. The US President is shot twice just when he is about to begin his speech by a terror group which has made elaborate plans down to the last detail (or so they think! ). The body guard/ Agent Dennis Quaid (Thomas Barnes in the movie) now takes it upon himself to catch the shooter. The terrorists make use of fancy high technology devices like mobile-controlled devices and assemble guns etc. The entire movie seems to happen in real-time and the shooter is caught within 2 hours of the assassination by the end of which the actual movie itself ends.
The movie is shown from the viewpoint of 8 stangers - The Body Guard, The Assasin, The Media, A Tourist, Assasin’s Girlfriend, The President, A Local Cop and so on..Each view point gives us new information and guides us towards the actual truth. This movie has its own unique style of story telling (called Rashomon Style ... as another MS reviewer Milind has pointed out). One might have seen this style in the movie ’Hoodwinked’ which is a modified version of Little Red Riding Hood.
The first half of the movie is extremely good and makes one glued to the seat ( A tub of pop-corn and pepsi are highly recommended). The second half of the movie becomes a regular cop chase the thug kinds. The car chases in the movie are really thrilling. The terrorists do not live up to the expectations in the second half committing many follies which makes the job easy for the agent Thomas Barnes.
A must watch for people liking some fast-paced action...!