Review: Guarding Tess

Cage and MacLaine are not two actors I would have put together in a movie.  This isn't a bad movie, but it's not a remarkable one either.  There's a few nice moments of comic tension between Cage's bodyguard and MacLaine's President's wife, but were this not free on Prime I'd have asked for my money back. 

For the most of the film, I was baffled why Cage was cast in it – and then it came – the Cage moment. The Cage moment is so utterly unexpected, and transforms the film from a mildly diverting comedy to something rather darker and so making it a two tone rather than monotone film.

Verdict: Mildly diverting.