The Hard Corps (2006)

Jean-Claude Van Damme
Vivica A. Fox
Dexter Bell
Doron Bell
Ron Selmour

Directed by Sheldon Lettich


Plot: A Combat Vet, who's just spent the last 3 years fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, is hired to bodyguard a former World Heavyweight Boxing champ and his family from an unscrupulous Rap Music Mogul. Complications arise when the boxer suspects that his sister may be in love with the bodyguard.


Review: Anyone that know me, knows I love the martial arts and will watch any movie related to it. I was a huge fan of
Jean-Claude back in the early days. Originally, I kept watching/buying his movies just so I would have them all. Unlike, Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude’s films have been getting better.

Let me start by saying this is not a great movie, but it isn’t Knock Off either. The film is an average straight to video action movie. The story is average and the cast is average. The movie wasn’t great, but I still somewhat enjoyed it. There is no over the top karate fights, but there is some good action. Jean-Claude gives a good brooding performance. What seems to make this movie work, isn’t that it’s a great movie, but the fact that it looks as though they were trying to make a good movie and not doing it half ass. I have no false dreams of thinking the Jean-Claude will ever be back in the spotlight, but after his last few straight to video films being decent (In Hell & Wake of Death), I think he has a chance to at least earn back some respect.
 

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