The Hard Corps (2006)

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

I have a great collection of movies which does not include this. You don't watch this for entertainment purpose. Lethargic is what this is! Nothing is exciting here. The acting, except that of Vivica Fox is way down par. The fight scenes are contrived and practically lacks the crispness and snap of action that is seen in Universal Soldier and Hard Target. Such waste!

An Army veteran assembles a team of bodyguards to protect a former boxer. Complications arise when the boxer suspects his sister may be romantically involved with the bodyguard. You've pretty much know what to expect and you've seen this type of plot in other movies over the years for sure but 'The Hard Corps' is a fun and watchable action flick with Jean Claude Van Damme as an Ex-Soldier who fights his own personal demons but also tries to protect this boxer and his family. The action was also pretty good and the acting not bad either. (7.4/10)

Disclaimer: If you are a viewer that mainly prefers art-house-type movies, then you might as well ignore this review. In addition, if you're not able to take a Van Damme underrated, a solid good action flick from Sheldon Lettich, ignore this review, as well. We'll both be better off.The Hard Corps (2006) is another solid underrated action flick from Van Damme that I like! I like this movie for what it is! Again folks this is what I was talking about: Steven Seagal's The Keeper (2009) ripped off and stole the idea from this movie! Steven Seagal can not be original, he is a fake, fat actor that I hate! The Keeper (2009) sucked ass! Manny people put my review down, because that I have stated that it suck. Watching The Hard Corps I was very surprised because I love Van Damme and idea from an American soldier who fought in Iraq must assembles a team of bodyguards to protect a former boxer and his sister. I already saw the idea from Seagal in The Keeper! In The Keeper (2009) Seagal is an L.A. Cop who is forced to retire from his duty's as a cop and he fly's to San Antonio helping and been a bodyguard of the daughter of a wealthy businessman his best friend and her boxer boyfriend. The same story that was ripped off from this movie The Hard Corps (2006), just the keeper made a lousy job, making an awful not entertaining movie that I just hate! After reading some reviews I see a lot of people hate this movie I don't! I think is an underrated, a good action movie from Van Damme and Sheldon Lettich! I know this movie is not a brutal, or violent like was Wake of Death (2004), but I still don't think it is a bad movie. Razaaq Adoti who plays Wayne Barclay a retired ex world champion boxer, he at least was a boxer in this movie and he kicked and fight with Van Damme, he wasn't a chicken, like Arron Shiver was, who played Mason Silver a boxer, Nikita's boyfriend, who soled her out and was a drug addicted. Sorry but I like The Hard Corps, I know is not that good, but Is still a good direct to video movie. At least I could know what the story is in this movie! Army veteran Philippe Sauvage (Jean-Claude Van Damme) assembles a team of bodyguards to protect former boxer Wayne Barclay (Razaaq Adoti). Complications arise when the boxer suspects his sister Tamara Barclay (Vivica A. Fox) may be romantically involved with the bodyguard.The story is straight forward with JCVD protecting a former boxer from an ex convict the boxer helped put behind bars. But the film rounds out a number of characters, including a straight-arrow nephew of the bad guy, and members of Jean Claude's group of bodyguards he calls "The Hard Corps". There are some neat character moments, like one of the Hard Corps' awkward response to a fist bump, and multiple relationships that start rocky but end in friendship – I know this is clichéd, but I always liked that formula. Jean-Claude Van Damme is great as a tortured war vet who fought for 3 years in Afghanistan and Iraq before being discharged after taking the blame for a school full of children being blown to bits by a terrorist in Iraq. There is some creative editing depicting his post traumatic stress syndrome, including cuts to gunfire while he's casing a club. It gives the viewer the same confusion that Van Damme's character has in trying to distinguish the beats of the music to the sound of gunfire.The main bad guy is fearsome with a bunch of man-eating dogs. He stabs one man and feeds his liver to the dogs, which was pretty cool. You don't see man-eating dogs much in action movies anymore. The action scenes are few and far between in the first half, but once they come in the second half they're furious. Pretty much one main character dies per action scene and plenty of bullets fly throughout. I was disappointed at first that JCVD wasn't hand-to-hand fighting as much, but toward the end of the second act there's a huge fight between him and the Barclay character where he pretty much beats the hell out of him. The climactic scene involves multiple shootouts and a crushing-by-falling-car death.The Hard Corps starts out a little slow but picks up around the middle. The characters are surprisingly well developed and the acting is very good. The action isn't as high-octane like a Mission Impossible movie, but it delivers what is expected. I am giving this movie an 8, why? Because it has his own original story, the movie did not copy or ripped off anyone's story. Van Damme did a solid job at acting and so did Vivica A. Fox as Tamara Barclay sister of Wayne Barclay, she was very hot in this flick.The Hard Corps is a 2006 American action film written and directed by Sheldon Lettich. It stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raz Adoti, Vivica A. Fox, and Peter Bryant. It is the fourth collaboration between Jean-Claude Van Damme and film director Sheldon Lettich. The film was released direct-to-DVD in the United States on August 15, 2006.8/10 Grade: A Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Clubdeal Motion Picture Corporation of America Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raz Adoti, Vivica A. Fox, Peter Bryant, Ron Bottitta, Viv Leacock, Adrian Holmes, Mark Griffin Director: Sheldon Lettich Producers: Brad Krevoy, Donald Kushner, Pierre Spengler Screenplay: Sheldon Lettich, George Saunders Rated: R Running Time: 1 Hr. 41 Mins. Budget: $12.000.000 Box Office: $12,800,000

if you grew up in the eighties and nineties watching van damme and steven seagal's action films, you'll like this. it isn't Miami vice or heat(big budget, pretentious plot, etc) but it is a simple-minded action movie with plenty to offer regarding entertainment and a fair and square good old time.people tend to judge a film before watching it and the hard corps got bashed. van damme and steven seagal, old movie stars that ruled the box office a decade ago, were forgotten by the big studios. today is the era of jason stathan, tony jaa and the likes, all of them well-rounded by cgi special effects and big budgets, but, back then in the era of seagal and van damme, cgi wasn't around and what you saw was the real thing. god, I miss these guys' movies (van damme and seagal) in the theaters.things used to be more fun. it was a joy to watch out for justice, marked for death, bloodsport (every kid back then had to put the name on a huge list on the video store just to rent the tape). films like the hard corps bring the old times back and you'll have a good time watching it. it's about a washed up veteran who fought in Iraqi. he comes back a different, bitter man. as fate would have it, he has a second chance in life as a bodyguard to a tough but good hearted former heavyweight champion. great action sequences, van damme does his own stunts and also has some great fighting scenes, and a straight forward plot that won't change the world of movies, but will give you one helluva good time.