AGood Somehow this movie completely passed me by. I only heard about it a couple of weeks ago after watching Siskel And Eberts at the movies review of "Three O'Clock High" which was one of my favourite movies on growing up about a nerdish guy at school getting into a fight with the most feared student in the school. Both reviewers slated it saying they wished the movie had been more like My Bodyguard. I searched for it and seen it for rent on Amazon Prime so figured I would give it a try. This is a fantastic movie. Its a teen movie with no glitz and glamour about it at all. it just feels completely realistic and down to earth. The film in a nutshell. A semi-well off kid moves and goes to a new highschool and it turns out there is the worst bully there taking "protection money" from everyone all on the supposed basis of him protecting everyone in the school from an even worse student played by Adam Baldwin whose story is he had literally murdered a bunch of people and is feared by everyone in the school to the extent that he barely shows up for lessons and nobody cares and lets him do it. The new kid doesn't want to pay and instead tries to find out some more about Adam Baldwins character and finds out the stories are not what they seem and in turns befriends him.This movie is way better than the Karate Kid, Three O'Clock High and all others about bullying at school. I really recommend you seek out this movie. You will be surprised how well made and uplifting it is.Adam Baldwin really shows he is a fantastic actor in this movie too. This is definitely worth watching if you have been watching him in Chuck and want something along similar lines.

cyrilol I watch this movie , I found the positive aspects and disadvantages. The positive aspects are: there is a true difference size or force the child arrives but all the same it has the appearance defend but downside is that little happens all the same to beat his opponent and it n is not normal for that the film is average. As the film passes himself in a school where there is a lot of joy of happiness, and I love it film also by a passage of the film or the infant will avenge her or his opponents by throwing them in the face or ketchup , that's why I give this film average , that's why I give this film averaged That is why I give this film averaged

TxMike I somehow missed this one in the 1980s. I was able to watch it via Netflix streaming movies. It is about a new kid at a Chicago public high school, 10th grade, and right away he encounters the local kid bully, who makes the weaker kids pay him every day for "protection." But the new kid refuses, and soon his time at school is made miserable by the bully and his friends.Chris Makepeace, who doesn't seem to have gone anywhere as an actor, was 15-yr-old Clifford. His mom had died, and his dad was the manager of a nice hotel in downtown Chicago. His eccentric grandmother lived with them. A very young and somewhat small Matt Dillon was the pretty boy bully, Moody. He played this role very well. But the one I liked most was Adam Baldwin, making his movie debut as the bigger, taller, but troubled student Linderman. None of the other kids wanted to get near him, and rumors were that he had killed people. But Clifford decided to befriend him, and ask him to be his "bodyguard", and in return he would pay him and help him with his homework. (Note, Baldwin, now in his 40s, is currently in a recurring role as a CIA agent in the TV series 'Chuck.') Another interesting young actress was a teenage Joan Cusack as one of the students, Shelley.Anyway the "bodyguard" thing didn't quite work out, Linderman didn't really want anything to do with that, but he and Clifford became friends anyway, and they went scrap yard hunting together, to find parts for an old motorcycle Linderman was rebuilding. Many of the scenes were shot in Lincoln Park, a place we visited a couple of years ago, it was fun seeing it from 30 years back.Nice movie, a chance to pull for the good guys. SPOILERS: The reason Linderman didn't want to get involved, he had accidentally been responsible for his kid brother getting shot and killed when the two of them were playing with a loaded pistol at home. Linderman lied to authorities, said he found the gun in his brother's hand, when in fact it was in his own hand when the shot was fired. So when Moody hired his own, somewhat older "bodyguard" Mike, in a confrontation in the park Linderman not only did not fight, he let them take his motorcycle, dump it in the pond, then he ran away. However after admitting to Clifford what his real issue was, in a second confrontation in the park, while retrieving his motorcycle, Linderman had to fight, and beat up Mike, while Clifford fought, and broke Moody's nose, with some coaching from Linderman. Thus the two bullies were neutralized and presumably all was going to be well.

moonspinner55 Director Tony Bill's uneven "My Bodyguard" feels lumpy, half-stewed, and occasionally very awkward...still, it's not a bad little movie and has a good cast and many good ingredients. Chris Makepeace (the moony-eyed kid from "Meatballs") is a highly intelligent, thoughtful young actor with a nice grasp of character; though his role here (as the new kid in school who immediately runs afoul of the local bully) isn't at all fresh, Makepeace does well with the over-written lines and gives the picture a nicely grounded base. Matt Dillon glowers convincingly enough as Moody, the punk with slicked-back hair (this was Dillon's third movie after "Over the Edge" and "Little Darlings", and his career was on a roll, with the future-star showing a nice sense of selection picking quirky, unusual teen-oriented films to start off with). Adam Baldwin plays the hulking, scary loner Linderman whom Makepeace pays to be his bodyguard, and their friendship doesn't feel nearly as contrived as the basic set-up, leading to an absorbing second-half. On the other hand, Makepeace's home life (with dad Martin Mull running a swanky Chicago hotel and grandma Ruth Gordon causing her usual mischief) DOES feel contrived; Bill's rhythm is really off in these instances, and if he's trying for laughs here he certainly doesn't get them. Any comedy with Ruth Gordon in the cast should be a partial hoot (at least), but Bill doesn't seem to know what to do with his adult actors and they often look anxious for help. I'm not sure what message the finale is sending out (or attempting to send out), however the kids are rarely a pain and most of them do solid work, particularly Joan Cusack as another joyful oddball. Jennifer Beals, pre-"Flashdance", has a non-speaking part as a student yet really stands out from the crowd (and Bill's camera is obviously in love with her angelic face). ** from ****