Synopsis
A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's 'A' School, where legendary rescue swimmer, Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.
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Cast
- Kevin CostnerBen Randall
- Ashton KutcherJake Fischer
- Sela WardHelen Randall
- Melissa SagemillerEmily Thomas
- Dulé HillKen Weatherly
- Bryce CassManny
- Omari HardwickCarl Billings
- Clancy BrownCapt. William Hadley
- Neal McDonoughJack Skinner
- Benny CiaramelloBenny Partida
Recommandations
- 75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The film's grueling training sequences have a perverse fascination, and, though he's nothing special here, Kutcher is probably the most appealing he has been in a big-screen role. - 70
Variety
The overlong but involving drama has obvious cross-generational appeal. - 63
Chicago Tribune
Sometimes you want to buy an extra-large popcorn and settle in for a big budget Hollywood blockbuster replete with entertaining explosions, undemanding dialogue and completely unrealistic action sequences. If all that sounds like gloriously uncomplicated fun, The Guardian is your movie. - 60
The New York Times
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. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
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. - 58
The A.V. Club
Tries tremendously hard to win audiences over with manly derring-do, exciting action, and impossible-obstacles-overcome uplift. And it's undeniably compelling for minutes at a time - 50
Village Voice
The Guardian is neither serious enough to take seriously nor flashy enough to get by on thrills alone. Jerry Bruckheimer, where art thou? - 50
ReelViews
There's nothing in The Guardian that audiences haven't previously been exposed to ad nauseam.
