The Guardian (Blu-ray) PG-13

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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 19 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 23, 2007
  • Originally Released: 2006
  • Label: Touchstone

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Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 423,080
Rating: 2/5 -- As tiresome as it is drawn out. Full Review
The List
Nov 3, 2018
Rating: 6/10 -- There's nothing particularly wrong with it, it's just very tedious. Originality doesn't seem to be important and maybe it doesn't have to be as The Guardian is dealing with something true but what that something is the filmmakers seem to know. Full Review
ComingSoon.net
Mar 22, 2011
3.5 stars out of 4 -- The drama builds remorselessly....THE GUARD is a pleasure.
Chicago Sun-Times
Aug 3, 2011
Rating: 2/4 -- The Guardian has the feel of a Sunday feature in a newspaper more than a drama. Full Review
San Francisco Chronicle
Sep 29, 2006
Rating: 2/4 -- The Guardian does the job required: nothing more, nothing less, and nothing fancy. Full Review
Toronto Star
Sep 29, 2006
Kutcher and Costner have a kind of visual chemistry that's just as elusive as the other kind. And the connection and contrast between them remind us that Hollywood isn't as forgiving of older male actors as we like to think.
Salon.com
Sep 29, 2006
Overly bloated action drama that is predictable and drawn out. Full Review
Calgary Movies
Sep 16, 2007

Product Description:

Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher team up in this torch-passing tale of the brave men and women in the Navy Coastguard elite rescue diver unit. A catastrophic rescue mission leaves him wounded after his wife (Sela Ward) walks out on him, so heavily decorated, reluctantly aging rescue diver Ben Randall (Costner) takes some leave from the ocean to assume instructor duties down at the naval training base. There his humorless pedagogy rubs a lot of trainees the wrong way, but a champion high-school swimmer, Jake (Kucher), has no problem keeping up, and it looks like old Ben may have found someone worthy to be his replacement. But first each man has to wrestle with his own personal demons...and each other. Under the no-nonsense direction of Andrew Davis (THE FUGITIVE, UNDER SIEGE), the visceral energy flows nonstop through this familiar but nonetheless riveting affair. Shot in a flat, matter-of-fact manner, the harshness of naval academy life is celebrated without being glamorized, while the rescues at sea are nothing short of hair-raising, making excellent use of CGI effects to plunge the viewer right into the towering waves and storms along with the divers. Several familiar, stalwart faces are on hand to help the boys become men and the men to accept aging gracefully, including John Heard, Clancy Brown, and Neal McDonough. Costner is perfect in a curmudgeonly role that fits him like a tailor-made wet suit. The real surprise is Kutcher, who seems to grow as an actor as his character grows as a person, revealing lots of murky depth. Bonnie Bramlet adds some sparkle as the singer at the local watering hole.

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  • UPC: 786936725902
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