 In 2004 , he starred in an unusually high number of films . He first appeared opposite Polly Shannon in Direct Action under Sidney J. Furie , portraying Sergeant Frank Gannon , an officer who has spent the last three years on the Direct Action Unit ( DAU ) task force , fighting gang crime and corruption and after he leaves he is hunted down by former colleagues for betraying the brotherhood . Next he appeared in Ed Bye 's Fat Slags , a film adaption of a comic strip The Fat Slags which appeared in the " alternative " British comic Viz . His role was little more than a cameo role alongside Geri Halliwell , Naomi Campbell and Angus Deayton . Reviews of the film were so poor that it remains on the IMDb 's Bottom 100 as one of the worst movies ever made . He next appeared in Christopher Kulikowski 's science fiction picture Retrograde alongside Gary Daniels and Joe Sagal . It tells the story of " a group of genetically unique people who travel back in time to prevent the discovery of meteors containing deadly bacteria . " Shot in Italy , the film received the support of the Film Fund of Luxembourg . Finally he made his directorial debut , replacing Sidney J. Furie who got ill during pre @-@ production , with The Defender , in which he also starred alongside Shakara Ledard and Jerry Springer , who played the President of the United States . Lundgren plays Lance Rockford , the bodyguard of the head of the National Security Agency , Roberta Jones ( Caroline Lee @-@ Johnson ) , in a war on terror . 
