gridoon Not one of Jet Li's best pictures, in my opinion; not as good as "Meltdown". The plot is a routine and unimaginative reworking of Kevin Costner's "The Bodyguard", and there is a distressing lack of martial arts action. Jet Li does his best to hold the movie together: he looks great with a gun, he moves faster than the speed of light (no need for the wires at a couple of points, though) and he gives a fine dramatic performance as well - his character is rigid at first, but becomes more human as the film progresses. The problem is that he has only one (!) notable fight scene in this movie, at the end, against Ngai Sing. Sing holds his own and the fight is fun to watch, but I do remember seeing him in a better - and longer - fight against Kenny Ho at the end of "Red Wolf" (another much superior film). Christy Chung serves as the eye-candy and little more, but I don't quite find her as attractive as she's supposed to be. (**)

Diana A pretty good movie all together, with only two real problems-1) The annoying, whiny girl. This seems to be a problem with a great many of the Hong Kong movies that I've seen. Jackie Chan had a series of brainless, whining, silly girlfriends, women who made you wish for an overpass to shove them off of. And several chow yun fat movies that i've seen also contained truly lame girlfriends who just made you grind your teeth. Why is this? Is that what's considered attractive over in China? The girl in the Bodyguard goes from whining constantly about Li's attempts to save her life to turning horribly kittenish(and still useless) after he shoots up a mall killing over a dozen assassins, making her see his value. The same could not be said of her, as she has no value. The second problem was the ending. Not that I wanted Li's character to end up with bubblehead-far from it. It made me particularly happy to see that he didn't. What i don't understand is the long shot of him standing in his uniform in front of the Chinese flag while music plays soulfully. What kind of ending is that? Was this movie bankrolled by the Chinese government as a propaganda film? I kept expecting Li to thrust out a forefinger at the audience and say "Uncle Mao wants you!" Otherwise, this was a fairly good film, with some excellent fight scenes and a truly interesting bad guy. Worth a watch or two.

nauti_ger This is most commonly noted to be a HK version of 'THe bodyguard' by Kevin Costner, so generally the plot is the same, bodyguard protects rich missus. I think what makes this more entertaining has to be Jet Li himself, who I am a personal fan of. Here he exudes silent charm and charisma that makes his character very 'cooland aloof at the same time. In the first half of the show, Christy's character hates him, not surprisingly since he is such a pain in her a**. But later on we see the softer side of him when he begins to like Christy's character too. He's character is very shy and uncertain when it comes to dealing with romance, a far cry from the confident and arrogant nature when it comes to his job. Jet Li plays the contrasting natures of the character with ease, you almost feel quite tickled watching Christy's character flirt with him. Overall, not a brilliant show, plot not original at all, but with the entertaining supporting casts as well as Jet Li's presence, makes the show a highly enjoyable one.

sarastro7 For Jet Li fans this movie is worth watching, but most others may want to give this one a miss. Jet is not bad as the mainland elite soldier (top of his class, of course, always willing to sacrifice himself for the mission), and the acting is not bad (the Hong Kong cops are believable and good-natured, and the girl's kid brother is OK), but the overall action is weak, and so is the story: A young girl, who's a rich guy's girlfriend, is a protected witness, and must be defended by the best bodyguard available, as the bad guys want to kill her before she can testify. Very standard plot. It takes a turn as Jet kills one of the bad guys, thus calling down the vengeance of the dead guy's brother, who then comes after the bodyguard (not really caring about the girl, although he does work for the same bad guy she's going to testify against). This vengeful brother, interestingly, is played by Ngai Sing (Seraph from the Matrix sequels). However, the final battle is not very exciting, in my opinion, although the gas angle was a new element.5 out of 10.