And it was even better than the last one. And in the role of the new villain, Yuri Boyka, he cast a little known actor/martial artist named Scott Adkins.įrom then on, Scott went on to make a name for himself in the action genre with a number of great action movies after that, including the next movie in the franchise, Undisputed 3: Redemption, where the character Boyka was himself promoted to the hero. He then cast legit badass Michael Jai White in the Rhames role, promoting that character from the previous entry’s hissable villain to the now unlikely hero. He took the job, but only if he got to put a martial arts spin on it. Starring Wesley Snipes & Ving Rhames as 2 adversarial boxers heading toward their inevitable showdown, the movie didn’t exactly light the box office on fire, but gained a cult following on video later on.Ĥ years later, martial arts action movie icon Isaac Florentine was chosen to make a sequel to Undisputed.

Released in 2002.Boyka: Undisputed is Scott Adkins at the peak of his game!Ģ002 saw the release of action movie legend Walter Hill’s latest opus, the prison boxing movie Undisputed. Even though this film has relatively few big action scenes and almost no special effects, it plays like one uninterrupted streak of action, because violence menaces the characters like a storm cloud when it isn’t slicing through their milieu like lightning. Hill uses quick-cutting techniques to showcase his actors and propel the story forward at the same time. Monroe is Iceman’s opposite: sentenced to life because of a passion killing he committed with two lethal weapons-his fists-Monroe has survived behind bars by living within himself and guarding his integrity.

Iceman’s sole article of faith is his rock-bottom belief in his own pummelling strength.

Drawing on torn-from-the-headlines events and B-movie history, Hill and his co-writer, David Giler, fill out their premise with hardboiled irony and gusto. Violence escalates toward a volcanic climax in Walter Hill’s ace boxing film about a heavyweight champ named Iceman (Ving Rhames) who gets convicted of rape and discovers that the quickest way out of the slammer is to fight the prison program’s champ, Monroe (Wesley Snipes).

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