The Guardian
Ben Randall, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer is asked to take a position as an instructor at the USCG training facility in Louisiana after his crew is died in a mission and his wife wants to divorce. Ben soon notices a guy named Jake who has unlimited potential with a troubled past. Trying to train Jake to become a rescue swimmer, Ben also teaches the young boy some lessons about love and life.
1 May 1948, Santa Rosa, California, USA
6 May 1969, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
4 March 1956, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
20 May 1965, Redondo Beach, California, USA
3 February 1948, El Paso, Texas, USA
March 22, 2011
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.
December 07, 2007
There is a breadth of quality about the acting, including a fine performance from Sela Ward as Ben's estranged wife - making a lot more of her role than her meagre scripting suggests.
September 29, 2006
The Guardian does the job required: nothing more, nothing less, and nothing fancy.
March 24, 2007
Will definitely rescue some moviegoers from the post-summer doldrums, but someone should have told Davis that there's going to be casualities if he leaves audiences in the water that long.
September 29, 2006
The Guardian has the feel of a Sunday feature in a newspaper more than a drama.
September 29, 2006
Kutcher may soon be ready to anchor a Hollywood sea voyage. But for now, he's still a touch out of his depth.
September 29, 2006
Costner is suitably Costneresque -- that is, low-key, stoic, and capable of a wry turn here or there.
September 29, 2006
Little about The Guardian will surprise anyone from one scene to the next, though the ride is hardly unpleasant and the story is generous in scope.
April 25, 2009
"The Guardian" is a pro-military propaganda movie from Hollywood that attempts to mask its agenda behind the life-saving rhetoric of Coast Guard rescue swimmers.
March 15, 2007
The Guardian isn't as boring as Annapolis and SWAT, but it's still a feature-length training montage about kids learning the importance of taking it to the limit.
September 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.
September 16, 2007
Overly bloated action drama that is predictable and drawn out.
