It's not easy being macho while you're shivering like a frozen puppy, but Kutcher pulls it off.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
As a story of courage and personal growth, The Guardian is perfunctory, a saga of character building that could (and may, advertently or otherwise) serve as a Coast Guard recruitment vehicle. But it's far more interesting as a tale of two faces: 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.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
An action movie, a basic training movie, a swaggering sea adventure, a home front melodrama and an inspiring tough-love heroic teacher fable. If the aggregate of all these movies is exhausting and occasionally overwrought, some of the parts are stirring and effective, though not exactly fresh.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
The movie represents an earnest effort to compensate for all the love the media has shown to firefighters and other land-based first responders in recent years with little thought to the Coast Guard; the drama also crashes on wave upon wave of clichés.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Scott Bowles
Don't be surprised if, in the middle of The Guardian, you get an overpowering sense of déjà vu. Assuming you've seen "An Officer and a Gentleman," "Top Gun" or any of the myriad basic-training films Hollywood churns out, you've seen The Guardian.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Scott Foundas
The Guardian is neither serious enough to take seriously nor flashy enough to get by on thrills alone. Jerry Bruckheimer, where art thou?Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Crust
The overly familiar plot points also make the film feel a little dated.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
The point of all this solemnity may be to pay serious respect to those rescue swimmers, who courageously look after errant kayakers or victims of Hurricane Katrina. But what we get in exchange is a movie that feels too much like a Coast Guard recruitment film. Who wants to pay to see that?Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
There's nothing in The Guardian that audiences haven't previously been exposed to ad nauseam.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
Ultimately, The Guardian veers off into slobbery touchy-feeliness, and the tone becomes mock-religious, almost liturgical.Read Full Review »
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