this be s superbly craft top notch washington thriller direct by the talented wolfgang petersen with hotshot screenwriter jeff maguire ( who seem to have do very little over the year and so maybe he tend his rose ) . the film have clint eastwood a an age secret service agent and john malkovich a a vengeful assassin pit against each other in a massive test of will and ingenuity and where the president life be at stake . unnecessary secrecy and competition between rival security agency almost doom the president and which be an authentic touch . this film be make when both eastwood and malkovich be at their peak . probably eastwood have never do a good job than he do here and and it be all so effortless for the old pro . there be some wonderful sound effect of him huff and puff a he run along beside the president car a a bodyguard and for which he be too old . i wonder if anyone else notice the humour of those noise have be add . my guardian angel and whose name be vigil and enjoy this movie even more than i do and but then bodyguard movie be very much his thing . rene russo be a perfect choice for the female agent who fall for eastwood and a she be so unobvious but so talented and and she shin . the tension be taut every inch of the way in this story and and the psychological struggle of eastwood to redeem himself from an early protection failure be beautifully show by his typical understated acting . with eastwood and if he lift an eyebrow by a millimeter and watch out . of course and he be the master of the super cool . malkovich have the opportunity to indulge all the creepiness he could wish in the paranoid character he portray and and he capture the man central vanity to perfection . what a good un .