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

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

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

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 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

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

A jumbled mess, with a few enjoyable moments but little continuity or flow.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2008

[An] absurd piece of entertaining fluff.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 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.

| Feb 9, 2006

Two long hours and 10 minutes after this tale begins, Rachel and Frank seem no closer than seatmates on a long bus trip.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2003

With the non-existent romantic chemistry between the main characters, coupled with the sparsely sprinkled suspense of the stalker plot, most of the narrative falls into The Boredom Zone faster than a lead balloon.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It's only a matter of time before love arises between Mr. Earphone and Ms. High Note. By that time, Bodyguard has slumped to the ground.

| Jan 1, 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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

[Costner] was probably more alive as the corpse in The Big Chill than he is here.

| Jan 1, 2000