A tired looking Van Damme shows up like an odd man out in this straight-to-DVD hard "core" gangsta revenge action joint, as he plays an Army Vet that's hired as a bodyguard for a former heavy weight boxing champ who's targeted by a man who he put away by not throwing a fight. But now that he is released, he begins receiving threats. There he must whip in shape some wannabe gangsta posse into professional bodyguards willing to take a bullet for their man/woman, while also fighting past war traumatic stress that haunts him and then there's the sister of the heavy weight champ who might just be falling for our man. A steely Van Dame pretty mops around (like he's thrown right in to the deep end), until it reaches its bloody climax of punishing gunfire. You know busting a cap. The camera does get a good workout though, but while there are some masterful martial arts by Van Damme, it's mainly kept as a one-off side-dish. Too often is spends a lot time posing about (the dramas), thinking its hip and cool and this only makes it even more drawn out when it could have been much tighter. It's simple and predictable with its plot devices, but it does entertain when it gets moving. It's too bad that it wasn't all that often. Competent, but dull.
"That's an order soldier."
"That's an order soldier."