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The Guardian
Directed by
Andrew Davis
PG-13
2006
2h 19m
Adventure
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Action
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6.9
37%
80%
7.1
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A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's "A" School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.
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Cast of The Guardian
Kevin Costner
Ben Randall
Ashton Kutcher
Jake Fischer
Sela Ward
Helen Randall
Melissa Sagemiller
Emily Thomas
Dulé Hill
Ken Weatherly
Bryce Cass
Manny
Omari Hardwick
Carl Billings
Clancy Brown
Capt. William Hadley
Neal McDonough
Jack Skinner
Benny Ciaramello
Benny Partida
Shelby Fenner
Cate Lindsey
Peter Gail
Danny Doran
Damon Lipari
Damon Bennett
Scott Mueller
Scott Reeves
Travis Willingham
Travis Finely
Eric Norris
Navy Guy
John Heard
Capt. Frank Larson
Richard T. Henry
Camael
Alex Daniels
Wild Bill
Daniel J. Molthen
Co-Pilot Wakefield
The Guardian Ratings & Reviews
UGO Screenwriter's Voice
Brian Tallerico
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.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Kutcher and Costner have a kind of visual chemistry that's just as elusive as the other kind. And the connection and contrast between them remind us that Hollywood isn't as forgiving of older male actors as we like to think.
USA Today
Scott Bowles
Kutcher may soon be ready to anchor a Hollywood sea voyage. But for now, he's still a touch out of his depth.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
Little about The Guardian will surprise anyone from one scene to the next, though the ride is hardly unpleasant and the story is generous in scope.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The Guardian has the feel of a Sunday feature in a newspaper more than a drama.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Costner is suitably Costneresque -- that is, low-key, stoic, and capable of a wry turn here or there.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
If you're going to drop $70 mil or so on a movie, you should go ahead and blow $9.99 on the deluxe tier of cable service so you can see how such characters are created on Rescue Me.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
A popcorn flick like this does best when it sticks to shallow waters.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Entertaining enough but strictly in a wait-for-cable way.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
Valor does emerge in The Guardian, but often is eclipsed by an effects-driven star vehicle.
Detroit News
Tom Long
While it's not completely waterlogged, The Guardian is more than a bit soggy. It begins efficiently familiar and ends with a series of splashes that seem like desperate dogpaddling.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Costner and Kutcher spark some real chemistry in their scenes together, but The Guardian takes a weird and unwelcome turn in its final 45 minutes and goes off the deep end.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
It's a pleasure to watch Costner. He continues to operate in a comfort zone where aging and foxiness co-exist. (Harrison Ford, take note.)
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
The Guardian isn't the worst aqua-themed movie of Kevin Costner's career. Not with Waterworld in his rearview mirror.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Impossible tests of endurance: check. Grinding down of cadet's arrogance: check. Phony romance between cadet and sassy babe: check. Fatherly benediction, the newly minted hero bursting with pride: check. Boo-rah!
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The Guardian is bookended by two technically complex rescue sequences, but the movie sorely lacks momentum. So it's up to the cast to transport us, and that doesn't happen either.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
Like a light out on the ocean, you can see everything coming for miles in The Guardian.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
With the movie already running on good will and good will alone this is a disastrous turn of events, this fatal final misstep the leaden nail in this film's cement-lined coffin.
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