It does have a great soundtrack from the late Whitney Houston and was her first film role, even if she did play a cheesy and uninspired performance.Please click the link below to receive your verification email.
Just leave us a message here and we will work on getting you verified. Your Ticket Confirmation is located under the header in your email that reads Your Ticket Reservation Details. Just below that it reads Ticket Confirmation: followed by a 10-digit number. When imperious musical superstar Whitney Houston begins receiving death threats, she is compelled to hire a bodyguard. Enter Costner, who immediately incurs the wrath of Houston and her entourage by imposing prison-like security measures. An ex-Secret Service agent, Costner still hasnt purged himself of his guilt feelings over his inability to protect President Reagan from would-be assassin John Hinckley (in the original concept, the agent had been guarding JFK in Dallas, but Costner was too young to make this credible; besides, he and Oliver Stone had been there before). Ralph Waite is cast as Costners father, while Robert Wuhl and Debbie Reynolds please the crowd in their cameo roles. ![]() Theres some wit in Kasdans script, and dread in the Oscar-ceremony climax. And as a love story, it erects a grand canyon between its unromantic, reluctant Romeo and its glitzy, but boring Juliet. Houstons performance (musically) was swell, set design was totally 80s. Kevin Costner gets hired as the recently deceased Whitney Houstons bodyguard. It has some interesting twists and turns and ultimately turns out to be a simple but fun screenplay. Whitney Houstons acting isnt overall bad, but there were times when it wasnt good. Ive seen it many times but I thought because of Ms. Houstons recent and unfortunate death, it would be a good time to revisit this fun flick. Cue the predictable romance, accompanied by the predictable melodramatic songs (sung by Houston, of which I Will Always Love You is still the stand out). Actually, besides the formidable soundtrack work by its star actress, theres very little to care about here. The writing is particularly woeful, with plot contrivances that straining the already-forced chemistry between the leads ever further. Even the climax seems to come out of nowhere due to a lack of fundamental information that isnt included in the script. We are made to gasp as Kevin Costner swoops in and saves the songstress time and time again, but weve seen it all before and executed much better than this. My advice on Bodyguard: buy the soundtrack, which is still great, but skip the movie. It set up some interesting characters, gave us a interesting conflict, and started to proceed well, so what happened you may ask Well what happened was they turned this promising thriller into some romantic Whitney Houston musical that was not a good mix of genres. It soon became predictable and I was very bored after I realized this movie was going nowhere special.
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