MARTIAL ARTS FILM
UNDISPUTED II
Undisputed II: Last Man Standing is the second installment in the saga started by the movie Undisputed. The film stars Michael Jai White, Scott Adkins, and Eli Danker, and is directed by Isaac Florentine. It has been many years since George "Iceman" Chambers (Michael Jai White) was defeated by Monroe Hutchen in an off the record fight while serving time in prison, as per the deal with the mob Chambers was released and kept his title being officially considered undefeated. , but after the passage of time its glory was left behind and now it is just a name from the past without fame or money. At the same time, in Russia, the mafia, led by a man named Gaga, organizes illegal fights in prisons, its main attraction being a fierce and bloodthirsty fighter named Yuri Boyka who boasts of being "the most complete fighter in the world" and is currently undefeated in illegal tournaments, however the bets are decreasing since without a real challenge Boyka always wins without difficulties. It all starts when Chambers is in Saint Petersburg, Russia, filming a vodka commercial since this is the only place where he is still remembered and he can still make some money. After his return to the hotel where he
is staying, he surprises some men in his apartment and gets into a fight where he makes them flee although they manage to knock him unconscious. After denouncing the assault, the police check and find drugs in Chambers's belongings, despite the fact that he insists that the aggressors planted it, he is found guilty of the crime and taken to the Chornya Cholmi Maximum Security Prison in Russia. There Chambers meets Stevie (Ben Cross), a heroin-addicted inmate who is designated as his cellmate. Boyka thinks that his reputation as the Most Complete fighter in the World would be affected by the presence of the Former World Heavyweight Champion. While they are in the dining room, the two speak to each other for the first time: Chambers makes fun of Boyka's name, while Boyka recognizes Chambers as a great heavyweight champion, but after so long he was nothing while that Boyka was the current champion; Chambers interrupts him by throwing water (with a spit) in his face and Boyka decides to show him his physical abilities before going for him (he breaks a wooden bench with a single kick with his shin and without doing any damage), but the prison guards They intervene before Boyka and Chambers get to hit each other. Time passes, and Chambers hears about the
mobster who controls every move in the prison, Gaga (Mark Ivanir). Meanwhile, Chambers defends Stevie from Boyka's and Boyka's henchmen and he goes back to have another fight (Boyka had initially challenged him to wrestle him in the ring, but Chambers saw it as silly since they could work it out at that point). again interrupted by the guards. Boyka has a new fight with a fighter named Alex (an expert Muay Thai fighter easier than David) whom Boyka defeats very easily but at the same time slowly (to vent the hatred he felt towards Chambers), so once Alex is defeated Boyka points to Chambers challenging him again to fight him. Markov then talks to Chambers and offers him his freedom in exchange for him fighting Boyka, but Chambers refuses (apparently he's not entirely confident that he'll be able to beat Boyka) so he's left to pick up Chambers's waste. the prison with a shovel. Nikolai, an old invalid nicknamed "Crott" (the mole), decides to help him make his life better so he provides him with gloves and a mask. However, Boyka's henchmen wait for Chambers at the dumps to pummel him, but Chambers (with Crott's help) defeats them without a problem. The prison guards see what happened and put Chambers in the "Hole" (a cell with sewage that makes everyone in it come down with a fever), but Nikolai secretly gives Chambers food and medicine to resist. Chambers tells him that he is convinced that he will get out of jail, but Crott denies him: "They will never let you out of here." Later, Chambers is taken out of the "Hole" and meets Gaga himself, who offers him freedom again in exchange for fighting Boyka and shows him a Phil (Chambers' manager was in charge of finding a way to free Chambers) completely at the mercy of Gaga's power. Resigned, Chambers accepts the fight. Stevie offers her help and Chambers accepts; while Chambers
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