The Guardian

Rating: 5
Genre: Drama

This movie starred Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher as Coast Guard swimmers… the guys who jump out of Helicopters into the ocean to save potential drowning victims. Overall this movie was pretty predictable and the acting was not that great.

I think a documentary movie on the subject would be better because the subject itself is pretty amazing. Guys who risk their life in treacherous oceans to save people they don’t know. They are the oceans version of firemen. The movie did a pretty good job at showing the danger level that they deal with but the story itself was too “Officer and a Gentleman” for me. I think they tried too hard to add relationships into it when the real relationship should’ve been between the swimmers and the death they face so often. What drives people to put their life on the line like that? In its better moments, the movie touched on that but spent far too much time with macho bravado crap.