The Bodyguard

Owen Gleiberman

Instead, its glossy yet slack; its like Flashdance without the hyperkinetic musical numbers and with the romance padded out to a disastrously languid 2 hours and 10 minutes. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

The movie does contain a love story, but its the kind of guarded passion that grows between two people who spend a lot of time keeping their priorities straight. ( Read More )

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. ( Read More )

Desson Thomson

The Bodyguard (R) By Desson Howe Washington Post Staff Writer November 27, 1992 In The Bodyguard, short haired security agent Kevin Costner has to protect Whitney Houston from a mysterious marauder.But all the training and discipline in the world are no match for Lawrence Kasdans script, an assassin of logic and believability. ( Read More )

Rita Kempley

His attempts to update the story have left it as uneven as wide wale corduroy and still hoary with period cliches. ( Read More )