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Of course, up in the big leagues you’ve got The Rock, Jason Statham et al, but Adkins seems purer – he exists on a more specific plane, he is entirely action star. Look back to the ‘80s, where action stars were born and made, first and foremost, on their physical ability (your Seagals, your Van Dammes) – well, Scott Adkins is the closest we’ve got to that nowadays. I can sort of understand why this has happened.
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To put that in perspective, Indiana Jones, the internationally famous movie legend, beloved to so many, only has 4,353,633 likes. Who knew? The Facebook page for this entirely fictional character currently has 5,747,842 likes. This small, low-budget sequel to a Wesley Snipes film that nobody really saw, contained a character that somehow happened to expertly capture the hearts, minds and loins of a legion of STV action movie fans. Now the film focuses solely on the breakout star of the last one: Yuri Boyka. And boy-o-bizzy-boy, are these fight scenes up at the top of the pile – like, when compared to anything. I’m holding them in the same high regard as your Hong Kong kung-fu flicks, here – this is seriously impressive stuff.įor Undisputed III: Redemption, they introduce even more top-quality martial artists into the mix, including Marko Zaror ( Killtro) and Lateef Crowder ( Warrior King), albeit with Michael Jai White unfortunately absent (don’t worry though, he’s doing stellar work with the Never Back Down sequels). That’s the modus operandi behind these films – getting proper, skilled fighters to face each other in the ring, by way of a dazzling, highly unrealistic barrage of stupidly pleasing fight scenes. His sweeping, swooping camera captures every single throw-down in crystal clear detail – there’s real effort and dedication behind this film, way more than is afforded most non-theatrical action movies. Seriously, for a straight to DVD movie, this is top quality film-making – Isaac Florentine (STV cinema’s greatest auteur) makes his movie look way more expensive than it actually is.
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Add the physical prowess of Michael Jai White and you’ve got a brawl-jamboree, served extremely well done. Now that Adkins is involved, the focus is on ridiculously complex choreographed fight scenes with more flabbergastingly bum-clenching flips and tricks than you can shake a copy of Martial Arts Illustrated at. Scott Adkins is a jaw-dropping martial artist in real life and nobody kicks arse like him – he is currently unlike anybody else in American movies (which makes it all the better that he’s from Sutton Coldfield, clearly).
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This is where the series is no longer about boxing – it is now a martial arts film. Obviously he’s back in prison again, and therefore fighting on the illegal circuit, only this time he’s going up against a giant scary bloke called Yuri Boyka, played by the one and only Scott Adkins, aka my favourite actor of all time. It’s from number two onwards that my knickers start to inflate.įor the sequel, Ving Rhames nipped out, and Michael Jai White filled The Iceman’s giant Lonsdale boots instead. But really, if we’re being honest with each other here, you can probably skip it.
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This is a perfectly serviceable boxing movie, and were it not for what followed, it would stand out as a nice little B-flick. Obviously, once inside he goes up against the current prison champ – Monroe Hutchens, played by Wesley Snipes – and, *trailer voice* FACES GET PUNCHED. There are four Undisputed films, and the worst one is the first one, and get this – this is how good the rest of them are – the first one stars Wesley Snipes AND Ving Rhames.Ĭhances are you haven’t heard of the Undisputed franchise, and I’ll forgive you for that – only the first entry was released theatrically, the rest going straight to DVD – but what I won’t forgive you for, is not checking them out after reading this fawning diatribe of praise.Īs previously mentioned, the worst (still good), Walter Hill-directed first installment follows a famous boxer called George ‘Iceman’ Chambers as he’s sentenced to prison (for a crime he may or may not have committed), and gets involved in an illegal underground fighting tournament. How many movie franchises can you think of where the first movie is the worst? There aren’t any, are there? Maybe Harry Potter? Nope? There are none, basically – we have had this debate in the office and there are none.Īpart from Undisputed.