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(1 - 30) of 30 OFCS Rating: 43% Rotten Page   1   "Daring rescues during wild storms at sea? Yes, but 'The Guardian' also features strong performances by Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker B- "Flaws aside, The Guardian still emerges as an above-average military drama, even if it does come with the obligatory cheese and a flair for the melodramatic."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark D+ "Filled with ugly step-printing and chaotic staging, Guardian could be mistaken for a CBS television movie at times, making it hard to stay excited for this big screen affair."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "For all their earnest actorly efforts, neither Costner nor Kutcher has a chance against this script."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3/4 "...an old-fashioned, irresistibly earnest piece of work..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2/4 "The wheels of the contrived screenplay turn so loudly you can almost hear them creaking."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman B- "It's that earnest naivete that makes the film rather charming, actually, if over-simple and at least 30 minutes too long."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C "Begins as the sort of glossy, well-made Hollywood movie I usually like, and by the end reaches supreme heights of silliness."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "...daring yet woefully derivative [and] waterlogged...The Guardian's formulaic fable manages to come up all drippy."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C "Pretty much a case of 'been there, seen that.' If this kind of by-the-numbers stuff is your cup of seawater, this is a professional example. But don't expect any surprises."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "An inspiring look at the Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers whose motto is "So others may live.""   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "Take a little of An Officer and a Gentleman and a little Top Gun and throw in some waves and underwater sequences, and you have The Guardian -- only with less charismatic actors, more tame sex scenes, and a lot less energy."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "Director Andrew Davis aims straight and true with his rescue scenes, churning ocean and emotion with a flair for good theater."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 5/10 "The Guardian is an ordinary movie about extraordinary people."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "There's enough testosterone on display in "The Guardian" to fuel a woman's golf tournament."   Light Views   John Larsen 2/5 "full review in Greek"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 2.5/5 "The best way I can describe The Guardian is the Coast Guard version of An Officer and a Gentleman, although I doubt this film will be remembered as fondly."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr B- "...may be textbook and go overboard with its attempt at supernatural myth-making, but Davis has grounded his film with enough unheralded heroics to make it work."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/4 "Enlistment in the Coast Guard must be down."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "The whole endeavor... is attempting to be way more serious than the casting of someone of Ashton Kutcher's level of nontalent would seem to indicate..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson B- "For every grizzled veteran, there has to be a cocky hotshot, and this movie's is high school swim champion Jake Fischer (Ashton Kutcher)."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 2/5 "In The Guardian, the latest film to sing the praises of Dan Quayle's favorite branch of the armed forces, '80s style homoeroticism is back."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 3/5 "All the good work done in the first three-fourths of The Guardian is undone by a messy and confused final act that offers up more endings than Clue in an effort to wrap things up."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2/5 "It's a great story marred by way too much stirring sincerity."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 1.5/4 "It's when The Guardian tries to posit profundity that it really wears out its welcome."   Slant Magazine   Rob Humanick C+ "It has a noble spirit, sorely lacking in most movies. This film is about people who would lay down their lives to save complete strangers."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten "Overly bloated action drama that is predictable and drawn out."   Calgary Movies   Ryan Cracknell 2/5 "sinks to unseen and inexcusable depths of cheese"   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "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   Stephanie Zacharek 8/10 "An exciting crowd-pleaser, examining what it takes - physically and psychologically - to be a hero. Think of it as "Top Fin"!"   Modamag.com   Susan Granger  (1 - 30) of 30 OFCS Rating: 43% Rotten Page   1