The top mistakes in The Sentinel http://www.moviemistakes.com/film5028 en Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:55:29 +0000 136334 When Michael Douglas lets the phone ring in the restaurant in order to distract a Secret Service agent, he quickly slips by. But if the corridor is such a crucial point, an additional Secret Service agent should have been placed there. Even ordinary security companies have any 'vulnerable' position guarded. 112618 At the very beginning of the movie, when Kim Basinger is in the bedroom and walking towards the mirror, the movements of her reflection do not match her movements. She stops moving and her reflection continues to move. 115230 Agent Breckinridge claims that Agent Merriweather's firearm still had its safety on despite the fact that he had managed to clear it from its holster. Agent Marin then explains that in the local police academy, officers are trained to "draw your weapon and flip the safety in two separate actions" whereas the Secret Service academy "trains us to draw and flip in a single motion." The problem with these statements is that Secret Service Agents are issued the Sig Sauer P229 pistol as their standard sidearm. This gun has no external safety levers to "flip." 142849 The President goes to the G8 summit in Toronto at the end. The G8 is comprised of Canada, United States, Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Germany and Russia. In the room there are a number of non-G8 countries represented. 142872 Right at the end when Pete calls for the "Hard Car" to evacuate the president, he gives very specific orders as to the evacuation point. Considering he was to be arrested on sight, there is no way he would know any of the security arrangements and they would surely have changed them radically because he was such a senior agent. The Secret Service is constantly changing their security.