Never veering from a story course the audience has traveled many times before, HIS BODYGUARD holds one's attention due to the charisma of the leading players and the film's central gimmick: a deaf witness to murder. Deficient in actual mystery, HIS BODYGUARD works best as an off-beat
romance between a female police detective and the recalcitrant client who initially resents her protection.
During a theft of the powerful drug Alpha 10 from Rollston Labs, a guard is shot to death. Research scientist Al (Robert Bockstael), one of the Rollston insiders who planned the heist, cannot dissuade his outside partner Feld (Michael Copeman) from planning to kill eyewitness ...
Released:
1998
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
88 mins