The Bodyguard (1992)
When imperious musical superstar begins receiving death threats, she is compelled to hire a bodyguard. And a former Secret Service agent takes on the job. Eventually the bodyguard and the singer start an affair, and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker strikes close to home.
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April 26, 2011
A plotless and trashy romantic melodrama that, with th help of some melodic songs, became a popular hit and date movie.December 31, 2010
Great Whitney Houston songs, mediocre love story.April 01, 2006
[An] absurd piece of entertaining fluff.March 01, 2012
Old fashioned star vehicle that makes no bones about manipulating its audience, but which does so with plenty of theatrical gusto.May 20, 2003
Two long hours and 10 minutes after this tale begins, Rachel and Frank seem no closer than seatmates on a long bus trip.April 25, 2012
The premise is workable, but the movie is sabotaged by several elements, including the hot-and-cold dialogue, obvious red herrings, and a ludicrous climax centering on an assassination attempt at the Academy Awards ceremony.January 01, 2000
The movie does contain a love story, but it's the kind of guarded passion that grows between two people who spend a lot of time keeping their priorities straight.July 22, 2008
A jumbled mess, with a few enjoyable moments but little continuity or flow.March 01, 2012
A dreary, turgid melodrama featuring the much ballyhooed debut of pop diva Whitney Houston.February 09, 2006
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.January 01, 2000
[Costner] was probably more alive as the corpse in The Big Chill than he is here.September 07, 2011
The Bodyguard is an outrageous piece of saccharine kitsch -- or, at least, it might have been had the movie seemed fully awake.