Eleven-year-old males who check the mirror daily for signs of facial hair may give it a 'hoo-ra'. For their balding elders, 'hoo-boy' might say it best.
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09/28/06
The Guardian (2006)
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Reviews Counted:142
Fresh:52
Rotten:90
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.
Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $54,983,983
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... [More]
Starring: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Clancy Brown, Sela Ward
Director: Andrew Davis
Reviews for The Guardian
121 - 140 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
The Guardian might not be half bad if it didn't sink under a massive storm of cliche.
09/28/06
I doubt that even these knights in neoprene armor could rescue an audience from The Guardian’s torrent of watery clichés.
09/28/06
This is a silly movie made of taped-together Hollywood hokum, the kind where you just know the pitch was something like, 'It's Top Gun meets An Officer and a Gentleman in The Perfect Storm.'
09/28/06
Not that I was expecting much, but I found myself irritated at the recurring basic training clichés that Andrew Davis had floating throughout "The Guardian."
09/28/06
Costner plods through this story with what can best be called tact, while Kutcher lamely tries to inject bits of humor here and there. Not that director Andrew Davis notices.
09/28/06
An inspiring look at the Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers whose motto is "So others may live."
09/28/06
Formulaic but involving. Makes waves.
09/28/06
Pretty much a case of 'been there, seen that.' If this kind of by-the-numbers stuff is your cup of seawater, this is a professional example. But don't expect any surprises.
09/28/06
"The Guardian" is one of the worst movies to come out this year because it's such a crass, unwieldy mess of military-flick clichés. It's a rock-headed copy of a copy of a copy, halfheartedly written, acted and edited.
09/28/06
Take a little of An Officer and a Gentleman and a little Top Gun and throw in some waves and underwater sequences, and you have The Guardian -- only with less charismatic actors, more tame sex scenes, and a lot less energy.
09/28/06
Formulaic but so well-made that you choke on the thrills in spite of yourself.
09/27/06
The brave women and men who serve as United States Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers perform courageous, lifesaving feats every day. Clocking in at a Waterworldly 139 minutes, The Guardian catalogs every one of them.
09/27/06
Ashton Kutcher shines in this highly entertaining, action-packed homage to real Coast Guard swimmers who risk their lives in storm-tossed waters to save strangers.
09/26/06
...turns out to be a crowd-pleasing drama that Coast Guard fans will adore, even if it is only an average genre flick at best.
09/26/06
Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher’s The Guardian drags on like a slow boat ride to Anchorage, its standard-issue heroics and flavorless dialogue gone stale long before the movie arrives at the big, valorous finish.
09/26/06
So old-school it actually has roles for both Clancy Brown and John Heard, The Guardian feels like an assembly-line summer programmer from somewhere circa 1987.
09/26/06
Sooooooo predictable.
09/26/06
Fans of Costner and Kutcher have probably forgiven them for much worse.
09/26/06
Director Andrew Davis aims straight and true with his rescue scenes, churning ocean and emotion with a flair for good theater.
09/26/06
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