Storyline
A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks fireworks of another sort, and the love-averse tough guy is torn between duty and romance.
Directors
Cast
Tomas Arana, Richard Schiff, Mike Starr, Kevin Costner, Bill Cobbs, Debbie Reynolds, Gerry Bamman, Nathaniel Parker, Patricia Healy, Charles Keating, Whitney Houston, Danny Kamin, Stephen Shellen, Robert Wuhl, Gary Kemp, Ralph Waite, David Foster, DeVaughn Nixon, Bert Remsen, Michele Lamar Richards, Christopher Birt, Joe Urla, Chris Connelly, Blumen Young, Linda Thompson, Towanna King
Trailer
Reviews
75
I thought the basic situation in The Bodyguard was intriguing enough to sustain a film all by itself: on the one hand, a star who grows rich through the adulation that fans feel for her, and on the other hand, a working man who, for a salary, agrees to substitute his body as a target instead of hers. Makes you think.
60
Empire
Its popularity continues to confound critics everywhere.
60
Jackson's showy technique does little to lighten the over-earnest heroics and ponderous references to samurai, which are punctuated by assorted numbers and costume changes for Houston. Lawrence Kasdan, it seems, mulled over the first draft of his screenplay twenty years ago; it should have been left to languish in development purgatory.
40
Deep inside the vague, unfocused excesses of The Bodyguard, the tale of a buttoned-down security agent hired to protect a glamorous pop star, there lurks the potential for a compelling film noir.
40
No wonder this Lawrence Kasdan script has been on the shelf for more than a decade: In the custody of director Mick Jackson, it proves a jumbled mess, with a few enjoyable moments but little continuity or flow.
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