Mariel Hemingway is Secret Service agent Alex McGregor, guarding the President (Gregory Harrison). As the movie opens we see an assassination attempt, Alex does something out of protocol, the president is OK, but she is in the doghouse, and gets assigned to accompany the President's daughter, Jess (Monica Keena) on an outbound trip into the Montana wilderness. Doug Savant plays Grant Coleman, the civilian leader of the outbound trip, and predictably he and Alex create friction. Then the bad guys show up. It would be hard to say that this is a good movie, but it is pleasant enough light entertainment.
SPOILERS FOLLOW. Right before the outbound trip starts, FBI agents raid a hideout in the Bitteroot wilderness, arrest the leader of the assassination attempt, but several of his men get away. By chance, they happen upon the outbound trip and recognize the daughter, Jess. They quickly hatch a plan to capture Jess and use her as ransom to get their leader back. Alex becomes the key player to foil the bad guys and protect Jess. At the showdown, the good guys end up in white water on a raft, then jump off a precipice into deep water. In a fight Grant gets knocked out and, face down in water, almost dies but Alex brings him back with CPR. Most of the bad guys are killed, the others arrested. Mariel Hemingway, at 37, looked very good in a wet tank top.
Back in D.C., Alex finds out that indeed, if she had not breached protocol, had not gotten the President out of the armored limo, the second missile would have likely killed the President. Her instinct saved him.
It was good seeing Doug Savant again, an underrated actor. I met him when we were both in the 1998 TV movie, "A Face To Kill For."
SPOILERS FOLLOW. Right before the outbound trip starts, FBI agents raid a hideout in the Bitteroot wilderness, arrest the leader of the assassination attempt, but several of his men get away. By chance, they happen upon the outbound trip and recognize the daughter, Jess. They quickly hatch a plan to capture Jess and use her as ransom to get their leader back. Alex becomes the key player to foil the bad guys and protect Jess. At the showdown, the good guys end up in white water on a raft, then jump off a precipice into deep water. In a fight Grant gets knocked out and, face down in water, almost dies but Alex brings him back with CPR. Most of the bad guys are killed, the others arrested. Mariel Hemingway, at 37, looked very good in a wet tank top.
Back in D.C., Alex finds out that indeed, if she had not breached protocol, had not gotten the President out of the armored limo, the second missile would have likely killed the President. Her instinct saved him.
It was good seeing Doug Savant again, an underrated actor. I met him when we were both in the 1998 TV movie, "A Face To Kill For."