The two Secret Service Agents Barnes and Taylor (Matthew Fox and Dennis Quaid) have to protect the US President Ashton (William Hurt) during an important summit for the war against terrorism held in Salamanca, Spain. As soons as the President starts his speech, he is being shot in front of TV cameras and a huge crowd.
So far, not a spectacular plot. But the way how this story is being visualized is really good. The whole scenery and story is being told again and again...but always from the angle of another person that took part in this event. A tourist, a camera team, the president, the bodyguards,terrorists and other protagonists. A fascinating idea even though it is not being fully realized in this film. The movie is beginning with the very intense visualization from the vantage points of a camera team and the bodyguard. After this, the film is getting a bit flat. If they would have thought a bit more about the plausibility of the story, it could have been a five star movie really. I found it to be good, breathless entertainment.
This film was over far too early. I thought it was running hardly 70 minutes but it had 90 minutes. It is a very speedy and intense film and the fact that it is being split into a several short films and put together again makes time go by very fast.
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