Undisputed II: Last Man Standing (2006)

Sequel to the 2002 film. This time, Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian Jail on trumped-up drug charges.

Director:

Isaac Florentine

Writers:

Boaz Davidson (story), James Townsend (screenplay),

Stars:

Michael Jai White, Scott Adkins, Ben Cross

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Michael Jai White	...	George Chambers
Scott Adkins	...	Yuri Boyka
Ben Cross	...	Steven Parker
Eli Danker	...	Crot
Mark Ivanir	...	Gaga
Ken Lerner	...	Phil
Daisy Lang	...	Svetlana
Silvio Simac	...	Davic
Ivaylo Geraskov	...	Alexi (as Ivailo Geraskov)
Valentin Ganev	...	Warden Markov
Atanas Srebrev	...	Dmitri
Michail Elenov	...	Sergei (as Miahail Elenov)
Velizar Binev	...	Kiril
George Zlatarev	...	Bald Inmate (as Georgy Zlatarev)
Ruslan Kupenov	...	Dark Haired Inmate

Storyline

Sequel to the 2002 film. This time, Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian Jail on trumped-up drug charges.

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Plot Keywords:

jail | sequel | brawl | martial arts | boxing ring | 

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Taglines:

He's not fighting for a title... He's fighting for his life.

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Sport

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong violence, language and some drug use

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 February 2007 (Kuwait)

Also Known As:

Champion 2: Last Man Standing

Filming Locations:

Bulgaria

Box Office

Budget:

$5,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Millennium Films, Nu Image Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Michael Jai White takes over the role of George Chambers from Ving Rhames in this film. White had previously played Mike Tyson, in the TV film Tyson (1995), the real life person the character of Chambers is based on.

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Goofs

When George and Yuri first meet in prison, after George spills water on Yuri's face he tries to trip him with a bench. There is a low angle shot of Yuri coming up to the bench and kicking through it. On the next high-angle shot of the kick George is nowhere to be seen, whereas he should be within feet of the bench.

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Quotes

Crot: [teaching George a leg-lock technique] Put leg on top of shoulder, lock with head. And now press on top of knee.
George Chambers: [George applies pressure]
Crot: Press George.
George Chambers: [George increases pressure]
Crot: Harder!
George Chambers: If I press any harder, its gonna break!
Crot: Good, maybe I start to feel the leg again.

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Connections

Edited into Undisputed 3: Redemption (2010)

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Soundtracks

"Adrenaline Junkie"
Written by Dalibor Andonov (as Dalibor Andonov Gru)
Performed by Gru
Published by SOKOJ (BMI)
Courtesy of Centroscena

User Reviews

Brilliant fights, truly unique!

Bizarrely a sequel to a film no one saw, about boxing, only this time it's about kickboxing. Now surely there must be more to the plot? Well no, it is essentially an excuse to have some downright superb fight scenes. Michael Jai White stars as George "the Ice Man" Chambers, played in the original by Ving Rhames. He's not playing the Wesley Snipes character as we might have assumed, considering White has been rumoured to be replacement Blade for Snipes, and after all Snipes and White are both martial arts demon's.

Anyway director Isaac Florentine has always shown a knack for filming fight scenes, without ever really getting the rest particularly right. Similarly his films never really look too polished, unable to look beyond their clearly meagre budgets. Similarly Florentine's previous films tended have bizarre mixes of time periods, costumes etc, to create non descript worlds, which just came out as strange on film. Bridge Of Dragon's for example was a pretty bog standard kind of fairy tale action movie. Also his use of cartoony sound effects for every movement, no matter how small, become tiresome in previous flicks. For example someone would raise an eyebrow and it would be accompanied by a "whoosh!" Having said all that I enjoyed his previous films for the action and the cheesiness of them. But Florentine has reigned himself in here, and in what is probably his most high profile and lavish production, he has produced a kick ass action film. Previously too he never really got any particularly good performances form his cast, be manages to here. White doe okay, and has the build and a certain amount of charisma that makes you wonder why he's not competing in the DTV wars with the top dogs like Seagal, Snipes and Van Damme. Strangely he's not much of an action star despite the huge muscular frame and martial arts prowess. Ben Cross also appears and as he did in the Lundgren flick, the Mechanik, he adds class to proceedings, because he can act. He does well in making his supporting part memorable in a fairly tragic kind of role, and he gives it some humanity and some humour. Ken Lerner too makes a welcome appearance playing a role we've seen many times before from him, and he of course he'll always be remembered as the agent, Arnold stabs in the back with a pen, in Running Man. Eli Danker is also superb.

However the real star of this piece is Scott Adkins, the British born, Kickboxer/Gymnast, here playing a Russian prison tournament champ. Adkin's not only has a good screen presence but like White is built like a brick outhouse, and to add to that he's an amazing athlete for a guy so huge. If marketed right Adkins could be the next big action star, he's got the ability to be one of the best. Adkin's performs some amazing gymnastic feats here. He's not a bad actor either and I think people will actually assume he's Russian, so he does a good job here, despite playing a comically two dimensional villains worthy of Ivan Drago himself. The fights are really well done. They feel unique too, much down to Adkin's himself but also the great photography, dolly and steadi-cam work.

This may have a plot that could have been written on the back of a match box, probably reading something along the lines of "Michael Jai White is forced to fight Scott Adkin's, twice!" However the film looks polished thanks to Ross Clarkson's photography, while Florentine is allowed to show some auterism that many DTV directors for hire aren't allowed to. It's simply a few situations that are thrown in to lead into fights, but the fights come thick and fast, and as well as that they are original, and pretty awesome. Thankfully the cast are good enough to rise above the trite situations which is why it's important in these films to include guys like Ben Cross, who can act.

Overall this is a film that will no doubt gain cult status amongst martial arts fan's. It's the most Drive-ish film since Drive, something simple yet for what it is, brilliantly delivered. There's rumours of another sequel, which I'd hope to see, but truthfully if it didn't have Adkin's it would be sorely lacking a one man special effect. Adkin's is even better than Kong! ***