Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

adonis98-743-186503 The global war on terror rages on. When a government official goes missing, Lance, a man with an impressive record of service to his country, finds himself protecting the man who embodies everything he has dedicated his life to fight against. The Defender might be the casual Dolph Lundgren film for the most but it's really not that bad, the direction is alright, Dolph is great as always and there's alot of action threw out the film and even tho it's not one of his best film's like Rocky IV, The Expendables Trilogy e.t.c this was still a good and well made action film. (8/10)

Carnage45C I usually like Dolph Lundgren movies (Universal Soldier, Rocky II, The Punisher, Masters of The Universe). Unfortunately, this has to be one of his worst. It has a great premise: the head of the NSA goes to Romania for a secret meeting with a mysterious party, who turns out to be the head of a terrorist organization. Lundgren plays the Secret Service agent who is leading the team that protects her.Most of the major points of the story take place in the first 20 minutes and the the final 10 minutes of the movie. Most of the rest of the movie can be summed up like this: 10-15 minutes of shooting, 5 minutes of talking, 10-15 minutes of shooting, cut scene of the president, 10-15 minutes of shooting, cut scene of a group of men standing in the middle of a circle of SUVs in the middle of the night talking, 10-15 minutes of shooting.There is a great plot twist near the end. And it's pretty obvious who the terrorist and president are supposed to be.Overall, I would not recommend this film unless you are really bored and there is nothing else on TV.

Robert W. I have this strange and unhealthy fascination with Dolph Lundgren's terrible films. There probably is a reason he's never broke into main stream films and The Defender is another example which he not only stars in but helms the picture as well. Frighteningly this was his first directorial film and I kind of thought it might be worth seeing being that he has always had this passion for action flicks that maybe he could direct his way into a great action flick. I mean The Defender is not the worst movie I've ever seen and if you like guns well The Defender might be the greatest film you've ever seen. From start to finish it's a giant shoot out for an hour and a half but as cool as that might sound there isn't even a wiff of a story around that. They try...I think...but it falls flat and makes no sense whatsoever. They even throw in some sort of attempts at twists to the story but you don't really care and by the time they try to throw some story at you, they just go right back to blowing each other away with guns. A handful of bodyguards in a castle systematically take out an entire army of trained marines. Sounds like a Dolph Lundgren movie.The aforementioned Mr. Lundgren stars as former Armed Forces soldier Lance Rockford who was held and tortured as a P.O.W. and now works as a Secret Service bodyguard. His back story is half decently interesting and there isn't any problem with his acting per se but the story or lack thereof doesn't support any good characters really so it's all about him shooting people...and is it just me or does he hold his handgun really weird in this film? It's like on an angle or something. Jerry Springer, yes THAT Jerry Springer, has a small role as The President of The United States. Actually Springer does a pretty decent job in the very small role. I might have even liked to have seen more of him. It's unfortunate that the plot made no sense because it might have made his character even more important. Shakara Ledard, Thomas Lockyer, Gerald Kyd, and Ian Porter are the main supporting characters and Lundgren's team inside the castle. I lump them together because whether or not they have talent as actors you wouldn't know from this film because none of them have any stand out moments or even personalities. Just a complete mess of bullets flying.I'm really trying to find something redeemable here but there isn't much. I mean there is plenty of action but it's so empty because the meager plot that exists makes such little sense. Even if you are a Dolph Lundgren fan...for the few of you out there or if you're like me and just can't look away...like a car wreck well do your very best to skip over this one because it's one big long shoot out with nothing in the end to satisfy you at all. The Defender is dud. 4/10

CelluloidRehab Dolph Lundgren's directorial debut almost put him in the same category as Orson Welles and Ed Wood, namely those who wrote, stared and directed their own movie. Dolph saved his word processing skills for the sophomore effort, namely the Mechanik.The porn-named hero (Dolph) of this movie is Lance Rockford. In 1991, he commanded a unit in the Gulf War. After they were ambushed and captured, 2/3 of his unit are executed in front of him. By this I mean everyone except Dolph. I you haven't figured it out ... he only commands two men. This is a low budget straight to DVD (Seagal-like) movie. What did you expect ? Fast forward back to the present where he is a secret service agent protecting some government secretary. He and his team are recruited/asked to protected this secretary on the way to some peace conference in Bucharest, Romania. She's not there for the conference though. She has a covert rendezvous with someone. While at this meeting, mercenaries are sent in to eliminate the secretary. What could possibly be going on ?? It's not as exciting as you would think. Actually, most of the movie is quite boring.The scenario that ensues is part Assault of Precinct 13, part conspiracy, part Steven Segal and a whole lot of predictability. The sets are dark and poorly lit. I could barely make out anything. Don't even waste your time on this movie. You are lucky to be watching this movie on a Sunday afternoon in June on Spike TV or at 2 AM on Cinemax while you are inexplicably trying to stay awake. There are some stand out moments. For example, Jerry Springer plays the cigar smoking, workout-while-I-talk-on-the-phone President of the United States. Yes this is not a typo. It is correct. Shakara Ledard is the other standout actor/actress in the movie. She is essential the eye candy, too bad she can't act. The other surprise is to find out that "the Dolph" was still alive and kicking. You wouldn't know that from his face though. He's looking very much like a tan Frank Langella's Skeletor (Masters of the Universe). I guess he must have borrowed the makeup. He also seems to have gotten acting advice from Steven Seagal. Steven has taught Dolph the proper way to shoot a gun. This movie also gives us the duel between Dolph's 9mm Beretta and a Sniper rifle. I bet you can't guess who wins ? Dolph's return and directorial debut is atrocious and boring. I have heard better things about the Mechanik. Hopefully he has learned from this abomination. I was going to give this movie a 1 or 2, however, I have to give a little credit for filming and some production that occurred in Romania. Until my review of the Mechanik, I highly recommend seeing Red Scorption, Rocky IV, Universal Soldier, Masters of the Universe or Showdown in Little Tokyo for your Dolph fix.