Houston is a revelation as the strong-willed, free-spirited, but lonely diva and single mother-of-one more concerned for her eight-year-old son's safety than her own.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 11, 2022

An innocent popcorn pleasure, all the way up to that over-the-top scene on Oscar night.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2022

Incredible soundtrack and a solid performance by Whitney Houston that helps you get through the dreary world this film takes place in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2022

...doesn't do well with plot, but the atmosphere is good, with Houston and Costner undeniably having the super-glam looks for this...

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 21, 2021

Costner is a trifle stern, but Houston makes a very creditable acting debut, and the result is great fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2020

There is no archetype so wooden or narrative so predictable that it can't be improved upon by a sense of style. But director Mick Jackson merely moves the pieces in a static and linear way toward a stalemate.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 9, 2020

Just about everything that can go wrong with this film does, and yet it's compulsively watchable. (So is a train wreck.)

| Sep 9, 2020

With a soap-opera plot that triggers alarms of incredulity, The Bodyguard remains no more than a serviceable thriller.

| Sep 9, 2020

While this tepid thriller is a showcase for Houston in her film debut, it is the downfall of co-star Kevin Costner in the title role.

| Sep 9, 2020

Houston's face, as she loses herself in the melody out there on a quiet porch in the woods, is a reminder of all she gave to this role, and this movie - and why it's always worth rewatching.

| Aug 21, 2020

If you have never seen The Bodyguard, it is not exactly begging to be seen.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 14, 2020

A really bad, and at times, confusing script. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 12, 2020

As a suspense film, The Bodyguard delivers a big chill. And as a love story, it erects a grand canyon between its unromantic, reluctant Romeo and its glitzy, but boring Juliet.

| Jun 6, 2018

if you can overlook the obvious flaws--a bumpy beginning, a villain whose motive is both too obvious and hard to swallow--The Bodyguard has its flashy, shallow pleasures. There's some wit in Kasdan's script, and dread in the Oscar-ceremony climax.

| Feb 8, 2018

A suspense classic that never lets up.

| Nov 26, 2017

There's no unironic value to this.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 24, 2017

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2012

Old fashioned star vehicle that makes no bones about manipulating its audience, but which does so with plenty of theatrical gusto.

| Mar 1, 2012

A dreary, turgid melodrama featuring the much ballyhooed debut of pop diva Whitney Houston.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 1, 2012

The Bodyguard is an outrageous piece of saccharine kitsch -- or, at least, it might have been had the movie seemed fully awake.

| Original Score: D | Sep 7, 2011