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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
1,006 Views


Get him out of here!

Don't release him!

-It's a set up!

Control! Control, come in.

There's no response from control.

-I just spoke with them.

-Do we find that shooter (?)

-This never should've happened.

Except that it did.

And it happened on our watch.

I can't live with that.

We better find him.

Sir, we need your camera. -Sure.

Where's the zoom? -Right here.

Right there, that's where the flutter was.

The shot was up, to the left.

You saw the shooter? -No.

But I saw something

like flash of light.

A saw a man in that window, sir.

-I'll check it out.

I'm coming with you. -No, no!

If you're wrong,

let me take the heat.

Sir, did you film this entire thing?

-Yes. -Show me.

I think I have a shooter on tape.

Go forward.

Oh my God!

Oh my God!

There's a bomb in the podium!

-This never should've happened.

-Find that shooter.

A flash of light.

Find that shooter.

Jesus, Barnes!

Medics! We need medics here!

Take it easy now, buddy.

Barnes...

Hey, hey, stop him!

Stop him! Stop! Stop!

Hey, freeze!

Secret service. I need to see

your tapes. -Yes, Kevin...

I need to see any footage you have

of the back part of the Plaza.

OK. Give me footage of the

back part of Plaza on 2. -Got it!

Give me everything.

Please play it back. Yeah.

Barnes, you were right. -About what?

-About the shooter.

I'm in pursuit lead at the

back annex, heading west.

Repeat, heading west.

-Did you call it in?

No, no, I need you to.

-I got it. Go!

Control. Come in, control.

Control, come in!

This is agent Barnes.

Control is down.

My partner is in pursuit of a suspect.

We need immediate assistance.

Just outside the back annex.

Headed west on a (?) street.

Do you copy?

Back up is on it's...

What? Barnes, what is it?

Rewind that.

Stop.

Oh my God!

What? What did he see?

I'll be at the underpass.

And now, president of the

United States.

Thank you so much for being here.

This is a wondrous day.

Today we make history.

I'll be at the underpass.

...my heart and my hope.

Get him out of here!

Let me go! I work for the mayor!

Let me go!

Hey, who are you?

Veronica!

Veronica!

We have to go!

We are all in danger!

We have to go!

She threw something!

Please, please, listen to me.

He's telling the truth.

I am police! My badge is here.

Listen to me. We have to go!

Calm down. Are you armed?

-Yes. I work for the mayor.

Listen to me. We're in danger.

We have to get out of here.

Barnes! -Why did you run

towards the president?

I go to protect the mayor.

It is my job.

You got up there pretty fast.

-Barnes, he's a cop!

I don't care, he knows something.

Get him out of here!

I've been set up!

You've got the wrong person!

Medics! We need medics here!

Hey, stop him! Stop!

Hey, stop him!

Hey, freeze!

Get out the way!

Get out the way!

Freeze!

Get out the way!

Stop him! Someone stop him!

I'll be at the underpass.

Get down! Get down!

Call the police!

Move!

Out the way!

Sh*t.

Out the way!

Surprised to see me alive?

It's amazing!

What are you seeing?

-Oh, you speak english.

-That's right.

I was just watching...

people over there.

Hi, my name is Sam, nice to meet you.

-Howard Lewis, nice to meet you too.

American? -Yeah.

Wow! What brings you here?

Just... looking for little excitement.

First time, eh?

-In Europe? Yeah.

I just felt like it was a right

time. What about you?

I go where the moment takes me.

That must be nice.

No family, right?

No, none that I know of.

What changed me is

kids running around.

-Are yours with you?

-No, they are with their mother.

We got in a sort of a

bad patch right now.

I decided to get away for a while...

-I'm sorry.

-It's fine, it's fine.

I think it's my cue.

-Yeah, it was nice to meet you.

-Nice to meet you too. Best of luck.

Yeah, you too.

-Tell your name. -Anna.

-That's a pretty name.

You look about the same

age as my son Nathan.

Can I buy her another cone?

-Oh, no, it's okay. Thank you.

-No, really, it's no problema.

No, thank you very much.

Anna, I'm sorry.

... president Ashton.

Welcome.

Thank you so much for being here.

This is a wondrous day.

Today we make history.

It is with great pleasure that I

invite you all to our humble city.

The hopes of the world are with us.

We must act together.

What is happening?

What's he doing?

Get him out of here!

-Let me go! -What the hell

were you doing up there?

-Answer my god damn question!

-Veronica!

Veronica!

We have to go!

Please, listen to me!

-Calm down.

-We have to go!

-Wait... -Step away, sir.

-She threw something!

-A gun. It's loaded.

-Hey, back up! -Listen to me,

he's telling the truth!

Veronica! Veronica!

Hi, leave a message.

-Bev, it's me.

You're gonna see on the news

when you wake up in the morning,

that the president has been shot.

He was here, in Spain.

And I think I just saw

the guy who did it.

Look, I'm all right, I just

want you to let the kids know

that I'm fine, and that I love

them very much and...

and I think I got it all on tape.

I don't know what to do...

Sir, we need your camera. -Sure.

-Where's the zoom?

-Press this button right here.

That's... that's where the flutter was.

The shot was up, to the left.

-You saw the shooter?

-I saw something, like a flash of light.

It was... right there, there was

something in that window right there!

-I saw a man in that window, sir.

-I'll go check it out.

I'm coming with you. -No, no!

If you're wrong,

let me take the heat.

Sir, did you film this entire thing?

-Yes. -Show me.

I think I have a shooter on tape.

Go forward.

Oh my God!

Oh my God!

There's a bomb in the podium!

Medics! We need medics here!

Anna!

Anna!

Where is your mother?

Where is she?

I gotta get you somewhere safe,

then we'll find your mother.

I need your help. I need you

to watch her, okay? All right?

Her mother is gone,

I don't know where she is.

-She'll be safe with me, don't worry.

-I'll be right back, all right?

I'll be right back. Wait for me.

-Take me with you!

I got to help the police.

Just stay with this lady

and I'll be back when I find your mom.

I'll be right back, okay? I swear.

I'll be right back.

Get out the way!

Mom?

Police! Get out the way!

Police! Move!

Police! Police!

He's a cop.

Freeze!

They shot him.

They shot him.

Mom!

Anna!

Mom! Mom!

When exactly do you think

the changes will be ready?

It's not like I have to

make the speech now.

I suppose I can just wing it, how much

trouble can I really get myself into?

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...

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