![]() ![]() If he cooperates with the police investigator (Ed Harris), he’ll be making himself vulnerable to the President’s protectors - a pair of ruthless Secret Service agents (Scott Glenn and Dennis Haysbert) and a fanatically loyal chief of staff (Judy Davis), all of whom were there at the crime scene. But his dreadful knowledge makes him a marked man. Luther escapes the crime scene clutching a key piece of evidence, a letter opener with the President’s blood on it. (Even Beavis and Butt-head got the grand tour.) Adapted from David Baldacci’s best-seller, Absolute Power begins on a note of entertainingly far-fetched hubris - a crook, through sheer happenstance, learns that the leader of the free world is a violent, perhaps homicidal sleazebag - and then metastasizes into rank implausibility. ![]() By now, the movies may have taken us into the White House once too often. ![]()
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