MARTIAL ARTS FILM Undisputed II

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

trains all Boxing punches from him, Boyka trains all martial arts from him: Judo, Jiujitsu, Kickboxing, Wushu and Taekwondo. The day of the confrontation arrives, where Stevie is Chambers's assistant, but what he did not count is that Stevie is forced by Boyka's henchmen, behind his back, to change the water that he would use in the fight for one that contained a drug to make Chambers lose consciousness.The fight begins, with Boyka looking for victory from the start, but Chambers defends himself as best he can and gives him a good beating (Boyka had challenged him to fight only with boxing, but Chambers shows that at least his game with his fists is completely higher). However, to Chambers' admiration and surprise, Boyka quickly recovers and switches to a new strategy: kicks and a bit of Judo. So Chambers receives many kicks and is forced to hold on to Boyka, ending the first round. In the minute of rest, Stevie passes the drugged water to Chambers, so that the latter begins to get dizzy in the ring. In the second round an unknown Chambers is noted, wobbly and erratic in his movements, so Boyka gives him some accurate blows and sends him to the ground, being the winner. Chambers wakes up in sickbay and learns of the water change from Crott's mouth. He storms out looking for Stevie, when he arrives at her cell and sees that he had committed suicide, leaving her a note saying that he had no choice, and for her to apologize. Chambers, furious at the circumstances of Stevie's death and for having lost dirty, confronts Boyka and reproaches him for having won using drugs, something Boyka didn't really know anything about; the warden tries to appease him by threatening him but Chambers blows him away, for which he is punished by being tied to the water tower in the courtyard in the middle of the snow for a day and a night without a coat; Against this background, Boyka begins to believe that Chambers's accusation could be true. The next day Boyka questions his companions about the water trap and those involved confess; Boyka kills them humiliated to have won in those conditions after having trained all his life to be the perfect fighter. Meanwhile, a group of inmates disobeys the warden by sheltering and feeding Chambers since he has endeared himself to him after beating the head guard; When he finds out, he demands those responsible, but the entire precinct claims responsibility, leaving all the prisoners out in the open in the middle of the snow. Meanwhile Phil talks with Gaga before leaving Chambers and returning alone to North America, this is how it is revealed that from the beginning the manager was part of the plan to frame the boxer, having sold him for money. While he talks with Gaga, Phil extorts him and demands more money than they originally negotiated in exchange for keeping quiet about what really happened, although Gaga accepts this, while Phil leaves, an assassin of Gaga intercepts him, kills him and returns the money to his boss. When Gaga finds out about Chambers's punishment, she gets upset with the warden and orders him to be released, after meeting with him, she asks him for a clean rematch against Boyka, with the same

conditions as the previous fight, that if Chambers wins, he would get his freedom, Chambers In return, he accepts that the well-being of the inmates be assured and that they be given adequate clothing for the cold. After this gesture, Nikolai (real name of the old Crott) understands that Chambers is no longer the unpleasant and individualistic subject who entered, so he decides to train him so that he can face the power of Boyka's legs on equal terms. This is how the old man explains that in his youth he was a bloodthirsty soldier with elite training, who is a prisoner in the Soviet Style, until his death since he accepted the blame for a robbery committed by his brother and after being imprisoned he killed a guard who tried to torture him, for which he was shot in the spine in the subsequent escape attempt, although he has accepted this as his fate, he admits that he only regrets not having met his niece, who was born when he was arrested. Nikolai teaches Chambers how to deal with Boyka, not only using his fists, but also his legs and especially how to use keys to nullify him (Sambo); Chambers also takes advantage of his street experience to improvise some moves against Boyka's techniques, as he trains for a while for the big fight that would define his freedom. On the day of the matchup, Boyka swore that he would rip Chambers to pieces and kill him, to make it clear who the undisputed champion was. The fight begins, with a Chambers not very different from the first fight, holding back and hitting the rival during the first round, both fighters are tied (Chambers had caught Boyka's leg, but he manages to apply a Jiujitsu key). In the second round, you see a Boyka who wants to finish off Chambers as quickly as possible, moving on to a defense and grappling strategy and manages to catch one of Chambers' legs (he almost breaks it), but Chambers grabs one of Boyka's legs and kicks him in the mouth ending the second round. At the break, Nikolai tells him that if he doesn't finish the fight now, he will rot in jail like him, then he remembers the training sessions with him and how they treated him in jail until they ask him: Do you hear me, George? What are you waiting for?? to which he replies: To the bell. Immediately afterwards, George uses the new techniques that he had learned, leaving a disoriented Boyka with his movements and in despair. In the final part, Chambers and Boyka fall to the ground, so George puts pressure on Boyka's knee using a technique previously learned from Crott, and using all of his strength he breaks the joint and ends the fight. Chambers leaves without looking back, where Boyka suffers from his shattered knee. Gaga hands him her share of her winnings for winning the fight and apologizes for how bad it was in prison. Before leaving, Chambers goes to Markov, the warden, and tells him that she wants to make a deal with him, for which she gives him the money obtained. Immediately afterwards, he appears in Nikolai's cabin, in a supposed farewell, to which Chambers tells the old man to get ready to leave, because there is an 18-year-old girl, excited about meeting her uncle. At the end of the film, Chambers leaves with Nikolai at the train station, waiting for his niece, until he appears and the meeting between these two is emotional, and that is when George Chambers turns around and walks in an unknown direction.