 Assault on Precinct 13 2005  R, 109 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Jean-Francois Richet
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Maria Bello, Ja Rule, Drea de Matteo, Matt Craven, John Leguizamo, Brian Dennehy, Gabriel Byrne, Aisha Hinds, Fulvio Cecere, Kim Coates, Currie Graham, Peter Bryant, Hugh Dillon
In the midst of a blizzard, four prisoners–Beck (John Leguizamo), Smiley (Ja Rule), Anna (Aisha Hinds), and crime lord Marion Bishop (Laurence Fishburne)–are delivered to Precinct 13 in Detroit on New Year's Eve. A SWAT team is concerned that Bishop will testify against their chief Marcus Duvall (Gabriel Byrne), and the team arrives at the isolated police station plotting to destroy Duvall. Landlines are cut, and cell-phone channels are cut off. Inside the station, in an effort to survive, Sergeant Jake Roenick (Ethan Hawke) and his staff–Jasper O'Shea (Brian Dennehy) and Iris Ferry (Drea de Matteo)–are forced into becoming allies with the prisoners to fight off the assault.
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The Hard Corps 2006  R, 110 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Sheldon Lettich
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Vivica A. Fox, Razaaq Adoti, Peter Bryant, Mark Griffin, Ron Selmour, Aaron Au, Ron Bottitta, Viv Leacock, Dexter Bell, Craig Robert Young, Julian Christopher
Former Desert Storm Special Forces soldier Patrick Sauvage (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is back home and hired by the sister (Vivica A. Fox) of retired World Heavyweight Champion Wayne Barclay (Razaaq Adoti) to serve as bodyguard for their family. His job is to protect them from a sadistic rap music mogul who Barclay helped put in jail, but he is now being released and is seeking revenge. Although Sauvage puts together a sharp team called "The Hard Corps," complications arise as Barclay and Sauvage butt heads on more than more occasion.
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2. The Hard Corps (2006)
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