The Guardian
Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: September 29, 2006
7.7
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Generally favorable reviews based on 140 Ratings
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BobbyB.Sep 30, 2006
What a joke! Save your money and your time -- life is too short to waste on junk like this. This movie has been made 100 times before -- why the need to make it again?
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AndrewS.Jul 1, 2007
What a horrendous movie! The critics were right when they said it was nothing special... The entire movie is a cliche piece of crap that tries way too hard to be epic and meaningful. The script is just laughable. The last twenty minutes were What a horrendous movie! The critics were right when they said it was nothing special... The entire movie is a cliche piece of crap that tries way too hard to be epic and meaningful. The script is just laughable. The last twenty minutes were the best directed, but they were so boring and just full of action. Most people only like the film because of stupid action. It doesn't mean anything. Bad, bad, bad movie.… Expand
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NateOct 1, 2006
I would have thought more of it if it wasn't so bloody long. There were about 5 times where I was sure it was over, only to have another unnecessary scene tacked on. Looking back, I can think of about 30-45 minutes that could have been I would have thought more of it if it wasn't so bloody long. There were about 5 times where I was sure it was over, only to have another unnecessary scene tacked on. Looking back, I can think of about 30-45 minutes that could have been hacked off to tighten up the film. Entire scenes and side-stories could have been dropped.… Expand
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MartinW.Apr 1, 2007
What an embarrassing movie. Scripts must be few and far between. I can understand Ashton Kutcher having to accept a part in a predictable movie such as this, because lets face it, he's really B grade. But, I thought Kevin Costner may What an embarrassing movie. Scripts must be few and far between. I can understand Ashton Kutcher having to accept a part in a predictable movie such as this, because lets face it, he's really B grade. But, I thought Kevin Costner may have been able to pass. Has his career stooped to this? Flag waving, chest beating, hi five hand slapping crap!… Expand
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NameandaddresswithheldApr 3, 2007
This had to be the worst movie ever! About some stupid loser who joins the coast gaurd. That falls in love with a ugly lady who is a drunk. It was such a crappy movie that Icried. I highly doubt that the true coast gaurds drink like pigs on This had to be the worst movie ever! About some stupid loser who joins the coast gaurd. That falls in love with a ugly lady who is a drunk. It was such a crappy movie that Icried. I highly doubt that the true coast gaurds drink like pigs on there free time!… Expand
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AMovieCriticFeb 24, 2007
It hurts me to do this because I really like Andrew Davis's directing and really think he's an underrated director. I really think Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Kostner deliver great performances and the music here is pretty cool. It hurts me to do this because I really like Andrew Davis's directing and really think he's an underrated director. I really think Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Kostner deliver great performances and the music here is pretty cool. However, the simple fact is that this movie's just...boring. It's horribly boring. It's nothing, NOTHING, but a series of training sequences and montages. That's all it is. It's like one giant training sequence. It's incredibly cliche'd and just...dull. This movie also has the nerve to drag on for over 2 hours. It would be fine if all this training and preparation was building up to something BIG but the (predictable) climactic action scene is not nearly enough of a show to make up for the nearly 2 hours we spent watching these characters prepare for it. (They also ruin any sense of intensity by frequently cutting to other scenes during it.) A complete dud. Very few redeeming qualities. Andrew Davis is successful (like he was with the movie Holes) in creating bonds between characters that the audience can sense and there are some cool moments involving that but unfortunately, the movie is slow, boring, and outdated. I can't really think of any redeeming qualities here.… Expand
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ChrisW.Mar 26, 2007
Ever see Top Gun? Then you don't need to see this movie. There are so many rip-offs of that movie that it makes it unwatchable. Let alone the fact that Ashton Kutcher cannot act in a serious role and Costner plays the same character Ever see Top Gun? Then you don't need to see this movie. There are so many rip-offs of that movie that it makes it unwatchable. Let alone the fact that Ashton Kutcher cannot act in a serious role and Costner plays the same character he's played in the past 10 movies. This movie was a complete waste of time.… Expand
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DawdlingPoetNov 28, 2021
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I found this movie to be slower than I had hoped and there isn't as much at sea action rescue scenes in it either, which was disappointing and it reminded me, story wise, quite alot of Police Academy, only without the comedy. Kevin Costner is the ratty senior instructor and Ashton as the self assured, ever so slightly(!) egocentric student, who shows an interest in the local females, so in that way its all rather too predictable and too cheesy with the whole 'your better than this, I can see it, do yourself and your team proud my son' type schpiel.

To me, it was too macho in one sense and too cheesy/'schmaltzy' in another and either way, I didn't exactly feel enamoured by it at all.

I was attracted to it by the big name stars (Ashton Kutcher, Kevn Costner and Neal McDonough, who can also be seen as Edie's partner in Desperate Housewives and who also appeared in what I thought was a very good US crime drama series called Boomtown which was sadly cancelled mid way into its second season, check it out, I thought that was a great show... but anyway...) but I just felt that the story, behind it all, was one that had been done too many times before, 'ala' Top Gun or, as I say, Police Academy, minus the comedy.

I would also have to disagree with the media quotes on the official DVD box, the Sunday Mirror may call it 'action-packed entertainment' but the real action scenes are pretty few and far between, at the start and fairly close to the end of the movie and by the time they appear near the end, I had really lost interest in the movie, which I felt dragged on too much at over two hours long as well. Also the Sunday Telegraph apparently claimed '...its (also) rather moving and unusual' well, I would challenge that too, quite whats so unusual about it, im not so sure. This is one time where you have to realise, such quotes from the press aren't always justified or particularly useful, if you know what I mean.

As I say, this is in a sense quite a macho film, so I think some men might quite enjoy it, perhaps it is more for men than women but even so, I still found the story flawed and I don't think being male would change my mind about that. I thought it was somewhat confusing, with the elements about Bens ex and Jake dating a local girl next to the scenes of the students hard at work training to be 'tough mean machines' and all of that.

As a viewer, you may feel sorry for both of the main characters at certain points but I still felt overall uninterested, certainly by the time it was half way through the movie.

Perhaps im not the best person to review it, I like to think im open minded and I like most types of movie but this one really, overall, lost my interest before the first hour was up, though I did watch it right through to the end. Its quite a lengthy movie at over two hours too, it did seem to go on rather too long, with not enough action in the middle part and generally a plot that I felt was less than new.

It has a good cast but otherwise I felt it was all rather disappointing and even pretty depressing and so no, I wouldn't recommend it.… Expand
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