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Synopsis: The President of the United States is in Salamanca, Spain, about to address the city in a public square. We see a plain-clothes cop, his girlfriend with another man, a mother and child, an American tourist with a video camera, and a Secret Service agent newly returned from medical leave. Shots ring out and the President falls; a few minutes later, we hear a distant explosion, then a bomb goes off in the square. Those minutes are retold, several times, emphasizing different characters' actions. Gradually, we discover who's behind the plot. Is the Secret Service one step ahead, or have the President's adversaries thought of everything?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Pete Travis
Production: Sony Pictures Releasing
  2 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
40
Rotten Tomatoes:
35%
PG-13
Year:
2008
90 min
$72,266,306
Website
923 Views


Thing is, we both

know my limitations.

-Are we stopping?

-Yes sir.

Luke, I'll call you back.

NSA has just confirmed the threat.

Control handover complete.

-Roger that.

Where is Phil? -At the hotel.

He's now at the joined chiefs.

He's sending a double. -Yeah.

Delivering Potus to the hotel.

Control, reversing the car,

Potus is returning.

We're going to issue a statement

to the press that we'll be defering...

Defering, that's great.

Today of all days...

Christ.

Sir, we've used doubles since Reagan.

Photo ops not printing this bit. (?)

Control, we have Potus and

we're moving to the castle.

Eagle has arrived at the Plaza.

Control, we have Potus and

are entering the castle.

Sir? -Talk to me, Phil.

NSA called about 5

minutes ago, it's real.

And the summit? -We're not

thinking of pulling out entirely.

Why would we?

Do we know who's behind this?

-It looks like a local group

with some sort of a vague connection

to the mujahedeen brigade.

-Why issue the threat now?

-Couple of weeks ago,

US special forces uncovered a plot to

smuggle a dirty bomb out of Morocco.

We took their bomb, and their men,

and this may be their retaliation.

They try to kill me

as a retaliation?

Potus is moving.

Safe for Eagle to exit vehicle.

-Copy that.

This is them? -That's Suarez.

As far as we can tell,

he leads the group.

What do we know about him?

He's from Morocco,

educated in Paris.

He went off the map for a while,

but he surfaced in Beirut.

Couple of days ago, we intercepted an

e-mail between members of this group.

Embedded in it were links to

the maps, blueprints of the area.

It wasn't untill this morning

that we received the threat.

You talked to joined chiefs,

what do they recommend?

That we go after their leadership.

-Here in Spain?

Morocco.

We have a satellite locked

on one of their camps there.

You want me to call in a strike

on a friendly arab nation?

They are harboring terrorists.

Is this intel certain? -Absolutely.

Control, we're clear on 7.

Why aren't we focusing on the ones who are

here and are actually doing this? -We are.

-This summit is too important.

-I know that sir,

but we're looking for five people

out of six million.

We are trying. -Try harder.

Welcome.

This is a wondrous day.

Today we make history.

He doesn't even look like me.

Senor presidente, fellow members

of the European Union,

president Ashton,

and citizens of the world,

it is with great pleasure that I

invite you all to our humble city.

Is that Thomas? -Yes, sir.

I thought he was still inactive.

-He was.

Well if he's back,

why isn't he with me?

We're checking if he's ready.

-You sent him out there.

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