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The Bodyguard

1992

Mick Jackson

Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp, Bill Cobbs ...

5.4

26,969

Mystery. Drama. Romance When a famous pop singer (Whitney Houston) receives threatening notes, her manager hires a bodyguard (Kevin Costner). The bodyguard takes his job to the extreme because he was once a member of Reagan’s secret service but wasn’t on hand when there was an attack on the president. The bodyguard and the singer develop feelings for each other, and she begins to realize that she may be in more danger than she had originally thought. Academy ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Ansen Newsweek	"A wildly uneven romantic thriller (...) If you can overlook the obvious flaws, 'The Bodyguard' has its flashy, shallow pleasures. There's some wit in Kasdan's script"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Whitney Houston showstopper as resplendent as ever (...) It's been 30 years since Mick Jackson¡s sensational box-office hit bowled over audiences worldwide, and it still charms (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"It’s like Flashdance without the hyperkinetic musical numbers and with the romance padded out to a disastrously languid 2 hours and 10 minutes"	NEG
United States	Brian Lowry Variety	"A jumbled mess, with a few enjoyable moments but little continuity or flow (...) the filmmakers seem more intent on featuring Houston musically than keeping the narrative moving"	NEU
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"[Costner] was probably more alive as the corpse in The Big Chill than he is here"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"I thought the basic situation in 'The Bodyguard' was intriguing enough to sustain a film all by itself (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Deep inside the vague, unfocused excesses of 'The Bodyguard' (...) there lurks the potential for a compelling film noir"	NEU
United Kingdom	Barry McIlheney Empire	"Costner is here less punchable than on recent outings (...) while even the well-signposted ending, a tremendous exercise in movie cliche, still manages to stir the heart (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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