The Hard Corps

2005

Action / Thriller

20
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 32% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 32% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 6895 6.9K

business man martial arts showdown businessman bodyguard rapper

Plot summary

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.

Director

Sheldon Lettich Photo
Sheldon Lettich

Top cast

Jean-Claude Van Damme Photo
Jean-Claude Van Damme as Philippe Sauvage
Ron Selmour Photo
Ron Selmour as Simcoe
Dean Redman Photo
Dean Redman as Drive By Passenger
Kimani Ray Smith Photo
Kimani Ray Smith as Minion #1
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813.38 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds 1
1.68 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10

Van Damme makes a nice performance as a very upset ex-soldier turned bodyguard

The picture concerns an Afghanistan/Irak veteran (Jean-Claude Van Damme) , he's living at hospital when is hired as a bodyguard . He must protect an ex-heavyweight champion , now a building magnate (Adoti) and his sister (Vivica A. Fox) against a dangerous rapper recently out of prison . The war veteran sets up an experienced team (Mark Griffin , among others) called ¨Hard Corps¨ to save menaced ex-boxer .This movie direct to video packs violent action , suspense , shoot-outs , boxing and martial art fighting and results to be quite amusing . Suffering Van Damme plays finely a sad and affected veteran , splendid Vivica A. Fox as enjoyable sister who falls in love for him and the brother played convincingly by Adoti who acted along with Jean-Claude in his former film ¨Second-in-command¨ . The movie is pointlessly energetic , occasionally fun and entertaining and for that reason will appeal to real devotee Van Damme . It's produced in middling budget by Pierre Splenger who produced last films of Steven Seagal and Van Damme . The movie was professionally directed by Sheldon Lettich. He spent several years in the US Marines Corps , including a time in Vietnam war . Lettich is filmmaker of Van Damme previous hits such as ¨The order¨ , ¨Double impact¨,¨Lionheart¨ ; furthermore , he is author of hunk men vehicles such as Daniel Bernhardt : ¨Perfect day¨ , Dolph Lundgren : ¨List patrol¨, and Mark Dacascos : ¨Only the strong¨. Rating : Acceptable and passable .
Reviewed by mas_leo333 5 / 10

Not missing anything new

This film just lets itself down towards the end. From the start I thought maybe this one was going to be different and not the same as Vann Damme has been doing for the last 5 years, which has been in most cases disappointing. But these films seem not have the stamina to finish the race, and the plot seems a little hard to swallow. But I do like Vann Damme's idea of moving away from the action, more for the acting but he needs to find the right material or its just a waste of time. In closing quite a lot of things were bad from the make-up to the acting. Vivica A. Fox who did your make-up girl, they need shooting. Your not missing anything new by missing this one.
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