The Hard Corps - 2006

I rented a 5 movie Van Damme DVD from the library recently. There's a pandemic on, still, and it's great to just have huge multi movie packs to sit around and fill your time with. This DVD is brought to us by our ol' friends at Mill Creek, also.

Starring Van Damme and Vivica A. Fox, directed by frequent Damme collaborator Sheldon Lettich, this is a by-the-numbers modern actioner flick. Van Damme, I'm pretty sure, is said to be a Afghan veteran and then later said to be a Vietnam veteran. It don't matter, what he is is a hard man with a unknown past, who is recruited by a retired champion boxer when the boxer has an old enemy released from prison.

The film has a mostly black cast, it's the "urban" Van Damme film, with his interactions with the boxer, the boxers sister (Fox) and the man who is after the boxer. Yeah, if you can't tell, I don't fuckin remember character names.

Whatever. It's really stupid, the plot is dumb and predictable, but it also satisfies in some certain ways and it could 1000% be much WORSE, so I won't shit on it too hard. The soundtrack is laughable but at least it's shot competently and the acting all around is solid. Also, great fight scenes near the end. I give it 3 stars.