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| Warner Bros. | Release Date: November 25, 1992 |
Starring:
Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston
Summary:
A former Secret Service agent named Frank Farmer (Costner) hires himself out on short-term assignments guarding VIPs. He typically avoids taking on celebrities, but he is talked into protecting Rachel Marron
Houston), a sing-turned-actress who has been receiving threatening
letters.
Houston), a sing-turned-actress who has been receiving threatening
letters.
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There's no pretending this is a perfect movie. Yet I doubt I could have enjoyed it more if it were. [25 Nov 1992, p.E1]
Some of the more tender moments - Farmer and Marron dancing at a country bar and gently probing each other's secrets - are particularly affecting. Less successful is a sequence purportedly set at the Academy Awards that wreaks of artificiality. The utter fecklessness of the segment is so jarring that it isn't until the climax that The Bodyguard pulls itself together.
Costner, allegedly smitten with his client, had more chemistry with the Warren Commission in JFK. [25 Nov 1992, p.1D]
The Bodyguard isn't a good movie, but it's often enjoyably bad, and that's no small achievement. So many talented people had a hand in it, starting with director Mick Jackson and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan, that you stare at the screen in a state of rapt bewilderment. Just about everything that can go wrong with this film does, and yet it's compulsively watchable. (So is a train wreck.) [25 Nov 1992, p.F1]
Jan 3, 2021
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Feb 14, 2022
The Bodyguard. I'm not afraid because you are near. If we evaluate the film in general, then it is about how Frank and Rachel stare at each other. Rachel herself, throughout the film, rushes about to protect me and don’t defend me, which is rather annoying when watching.
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Mar 4, 2018
I watched it for the soundtrack and the chemistry between Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner. If not for these two actors, the movie wouldn't have been as successful as it was.
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Feb 9, 2021
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