Still, I can’t deny it worked for me – my not having seen the first Undisputed and finding the second not very interesting probably helped make the transition here. The ambition there is low, and the film carries out the task of converting Boyka into the hero, largely by ignoring him ever having been anything else. It’s almost all thoroughly predictable, and feels like a throwback to a simpler time when martial arts films had plots that would barely trouble the edges of a beer-mat. This sets up the inevitable bout between Russia and Colombia as the PSC final. This offends Boyka’s sense of fair play, and he helps Turbo to escape rather than face death in a bout he can’t win. To make sure Quiñones wins his semi-final, his opponent, American “Turbo” (Jenkins), for whom Boyka has developed a grudging respect, gets a pre-bout beatdown. Indeed, the fix is in once more to make sure he prevails and the right bets get paid out. It’s organized by mob boss Gaga (Ivanir), but the hot favourite is Colombian champion, Raul “Dolor” Quiñones (Zaror). This pits the eight best jailed fighters from around the world in a tournament, with the winner gaining their freedom. That accomplished, he becomes his country’s representative in the Prison Spetz Competition (PSC). Yet, here we are, with a humbled Boyka now limping around the bowels of his Russian prison, cleaning toilets and slowly rehabilitating his leg. Still, there can’t be many franchises where the villain in one entry becomes the hero of the next. But he was something of a heroic antagonist: Boyka had beaten Chambers earlier on, but insisted on a rematch after discovering his opponent had been given spiked water to drink. In the second film, Boyka (Adkins) was actually the bad guy, who had his leg broken by George “Iceman” Chambers in the film’s climax.
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What’s interesting about the Undisputed series is its switching up of protagonists. Star: Scott Adkins, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Mark Ivanir, Marko Zaror
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