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- 2006
- PG-13
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 2 h 19 m
- 2006
- PG-13
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 2 h 19 m
Summary After losing his crew in a fatal crash, legendary Rescue Swimmer, Ben Randall (Costner), is sent to teach at "A" School, an elite training program for Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers. Wrestling with the loss of his crew members, he throws himself into teaching, turning the program upside down with his unorthodox training methods. While there...
Directed By: Andrew Davis
Written By: Ron L. Brinkerhoff
- 2006
- PG-13
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 2 h 19 m
- 2006
- PG-13
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 2 h 19 m
The Guardian
53
6.9
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Summary After losing his crew in a fatal crash, legendary Rescue Swimmer, Ben Randall (Costner), is sent to teach at "A" School, an elite training program for Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers. Wrestling with the loss of his crew members, he throws himself into teaching, turning the program upside down with his unorthodox training methods. While there...
Directed By: Andrew Davis
Written By: Ron L. Brinkerhoff
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
53
34% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
62% Mixed
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
53
34% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
62% Mixed
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The Guardian is that rarest of cinematic commodities: an action movie displaying brains and heart and the opportunity for its stars to do something more than keep the narrative flowing between explosions.
With high seas and crashing waves created by Canadian special-effects company Fusion CIS, there's nothing wrong with the nail-biting side of the equation featuring a sequence of distinct maritime accidents; it's the rest of the plot that is taking on water.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 50 User Ratings
6.9
58% Positive
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
38% Mixed
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
4% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 50 User Ratings
6.9
58% Positive
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
38% Mixed
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
4% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
What? Sometimes I think all critic reviews are curropted with larger companies and moving paying the reviewers, the critic reviews definitely strengthen those thoughts.
I don't care if it has been done before, EVERYTHING HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE, GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD. In these days, nothing and everything is original, and if I saw the concept before, I'd mention the movie who executed the concept better.
The guardians is a piece of work, I really liked Ashton Kutcher and the other actor's performance. The story wasn't insanely unique, but it portrayed real life situations, the sometimes complicated lives of the coastguard with an interesting chain of events.
I loved it, and I think it deserves a solid nine.
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Liked the story and the protagonists. Was a bit long though. Can be watched on Disney+
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Sometimes you want to buy an extra-large popcorn and settle in for a big budget Hollywood blockbuster replete with entertaining explosions, undemanding dialogue and completely unrealistic action sequences. If all that sounds like gloriously uncomplicated fun, The Guardian is your movie.
The movie represents an earnest effort to compensate for all the love the media has shown to firefighters and other land-based first responders in recent years with little thought to the Coast Guard; the drama also crashes on wave upon wave of clichés.
I'm not suggesting Costner and Kutcher should run out and remake "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" just yet, but in The Guardian, the two actors turn out to complement each other well enough to make a lot of this supremely derivative and formulaic picture go down better than it should.
The only performance worth watching is Costner's. Now that he seems resigned to being something less than an A-list luminary, he is often modest and affecting.
The men who made The Guardian strive to be the averagest of the average - and don't quite succeed.
Bardzo dobry film... powracam do niego jak gdzies tylko w tv zostanie puszczony.
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Veteran coast guard, traumatic accident on the job, forced to become an instructor, does it his way, new brilliant recruit with issues, etc.
Very predictable but also watchable action film with Kevin Costner & Ashton Kutcher playing their roles well.
You can sort of grasp how it's going to turn out within the first half hour & inevitably is going to be compared with the **** fest that is Top Gun.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Awards
Teen Choice Awards
• 2 Nominations
Huabiao Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Satellite Awards
• 1 Nomination
