White’s screenplay lends Chapkanov’s treatment of the franchise MMA protagonist a much larger playing field in a film that could have gone in any direction after Florentine’s Undisputed 3: Redemption in 2010 with momentum building during its development and while one may continue pondering such alternatives, the trajectory offered here suffices wonderfully as a preamble to what ensues for the remainder of the film.Īdkins returns as Uri Boyka, an albeit free man living in Ukraine and fighting its underground circuit for a chance to compete as a legitmate and professional mainstream athlete.
It’s a succession that has not been easy – one plagued by the ever-continued proliferation of piracy that causes films like Adkins’s latest reprisal to remain stagnant for years before ever seeing the light of day, and it should not be that way if the fans wish to see more.Īlas, here we are, and in the fourteen years since Adkins primed himself as a rogue British SAS operative in Isaac Florentine’s Special Forces – three years prior to etching himself into genre history with anti-heroic infamy as “the most complete fighter in the world” in Florentine’s direct-to-video Undisputed sequel with fellow action star Michael Jai White, and to date, with award-winning acclaim as of this year’s Jackie Chan Action Week at the 20th Shanghai International Film Festival in June.
I take this fact to mind in observing the career progression of martial arts star, actor Scott Adkins, once a stuntman and someone who has essentially woven himself into ample popularity as an action-capable actor, and with his biggest audience keen on major martial arts fanfare. Not so much here though, and it’s a shame as it was still a hope of mine that I shared as a theatergoer, albeit understandable with a limited number of screens at the least considering how rare it is to see martial arts movies these days, and of the caliber they bare in talent and content.
Director Todor Chapkanov’s latest feature-length affair, Boyka: Undisputed 4, isn’t exactly the kind that would get the big screen treatment in North America.
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