Quick Look: The Bodyguard (1992)

A romantic thriller starring Whitney Houston as Rachel Marron, as an award nominated music superstar who is being stalked.  She hires former Secret Service agent turned personal bodyguard, Frank Farmer, who is played by Kevin Costner.

Spoiler alert: At first Frank is the consummate professional and successfully protects Rachel from an attempt on Rachel's life.  This inevitably leads Rachel to fall in love with Frank, and later into a sexual encounter, which Frank realizes will ultimately put Rachel in danger, so he breaks off the affair.  She is upset by this, and begins breaking the "rules" set down by Frank to keep her safe, which turns out to not be a good idea.

The movie climaxes with Frank "taking a bullet" for Rachel at a prestigious awards show, which he survives.  This is after finding out the stalker, and the man trying to kill Rachel are 2 different people. Rachel's sister hired a hitman to kill Rachel.  Ahh, family dynamics... 

There are no shocking surprises, and no unexpected thrills, and it does slow down in a few parts, but the roles play out well on the big screen for an entertaining 2 hours.

Whitney Houston had a big soundtrack hit singing the Dolly Parton song "I Will Always Love You".  The movie had a very large gross - over 400 million, and the soundtrack sold over 45 million copies worldwide.

Interesting fact: The screenplay was written in the 70's as a film vehicle for Steve McQueen and Diana Ross.