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10/14/06
The Guardian (2006)
37 %
Reviews Counted: 140 Fresh: 52 Rotten:88 Average Rating: 5.2/10
Consensus:
The Coast Guard gets its chance for a heroic movie tribute, but The Guardian does it no justice, borrowing cliche after cliche from other (and better) military branch movies.
Rated: 12A
Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins
Theatrical Release: 13-10-2006
Synopsis: Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher team up in this torch-passing tale of the brave men and women in the Navy Coastguard elite rescue diver unit. A catastrophic rescue mission leaves him wounded after his wife (Sela Ward) walks out on him, so heavily decorated, reluctantly aging rescue diver Ben... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Clancy Brown, Sela Ward, Melissa Sagemiller
Director: Andrew Davis
Screenwriter: Ron L. Brinkerhoff
Producer: Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson
Composer: Trevor Rabin
Screenwriter: Ron L. Brinkerhoff
Producer: Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson
Composer: Trevor Rabin
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Costner's actually pretty good in the role which could, at a pinch, be seen as a metaphor for getting too old for action-based parts and having to move over for younger, prettier models.
10/14/06
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10/13/06
A pleasant enough distraction, although like so much of Costner's work it is far too long.
09/29/06
Top Critic
Will definitely rescue some moviegoers from the post-summer doldrums, but someone should have told Davis that there's going to be casualities if he leaves audiences in the water that long.
03/24/07
The Guardian isn't as boring as Annapolis and SWAT, but it's still a feature-length training montage about kids learning the importance of taking it to the limit.
03/15/07
A well-judged performance by Kevin Costner brings drama to this actioner.
03/01/07
I'd have given it an A-. But it goes on & on, off the deep end into the even hokier. But since it choked me up earlier on, I'm calling it a weak B .
02/19/07
There's enough testosterone on display in "The Guardian" to fuel a woman's golf tournament.
12/26/06
This character-driven drama about redemption feels fresh, mostly due to good storytelling and two fine lead performances
11/24/06
a drama that's sometimes as generic as its title... (but)when they're not being forced to snarl at each other, Costner and Kutcher make a likable team...
11/24/06
The film certainly comes across like a paid Coast Guard advertisement at times.
10/18/06
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