Oct 25 2006
The Guardian
Dir: Andrew Davis
Writ: Ron L. Brinkerhoff
- Kevin Costner - Ben Randall
- Ashton Kutcher - Jake Fischer
- Sela Ward - Helen Randall
- Melissa Sagemiller - Emily Thomas
- Clancy Brown - Capt. William Hadley
Grizzled old veteran teaches impudent new pup how to be a rescue swimmer.
And that is about it.
But if that was all I said it’d make for a pretty short review, so I’ll just bullshit away here for a few minutes. The Guardian is a pretty crap version of Top Gun only instead of planes and war you get oceans and rescues. But the rest is fairly similar; elite training camp, male bonding, token females, death of team-members, training montage etc etc. But all in all it isn’t terrible.
It is however full of very cliché in film history, so there are no surprises at all, everything happens exactly as you might expect. Even the “cool slow-motion shots” occur when you think they might. The only thing surprising about this film is the length. It does drag towards the end. And the beginning. And the middle isn’t too well-paced either.
But it is still watchable, laughable yes, but also watchable.
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And Clancy Brown wasn’t in it NEARLY enough. They teased me by putting him in the trailers and then he wasn’t in the middle bit at all at all.
Sigh.
The popcorn was good though. And so were the ’splosions. And it made me want to take up swimming again. It’s all good.
This was one I didn’t want to see simply because the trailer reminded me so much of another movie I don’t want to see (ever again), Armageddon.
And you went off without paying me back Harlequin, thief! Murrrrrdererrr
Similar feel to this and Armageddon, but not as good Carl.
Well, if you don’t pay your dues to the Guild of Thieves, you can expect such things to happen.
Quoted. I’m not doing the link thingy, but you know where it’s at, right?