Boyka: Undisputed (2016)
Undisputed IV is a 2016 American martial arts film directed by Isaac Florentine, and written by David White and Tony Mosher with a story by Boaz Davidson. It is the sequel to the 2010 boxing film Undisputed III: Redemption. Scott Adkins reprises his role as Yuri Boyka. Tim Man, who choreographed the action for Adkins in Florentine’s Ninja: Shadow of a Tear, serves as the film’s fight choreographer. Boyka: Undisputed won the Best Fight Award, while Scott Adkins won the Jackie Chan Best Action Movie Actor Award for his portrayal of Yuri Boyka at the 2017 Shanghai Film Festival.
Plot.
The film takes place several months after the events of the previous film. Martial artist Yuri Boyka is now a free man and has a manager named Kiril. He still fights in underground matches in Kyiv, Ukraine. In a match, Boyka accidentally kills his opponent Viktor. He begins to regret this and thinks about what he is fighting for. After discovering Viktor has a wife named Alma, Boyka tells Kiril to make a fake passport and goes to Russia to meet Alma. In the Russian town of Drovny, Boyka finds out that Alma owes money to a crime boss named Zourab. Alma lives in a community center and she serves as a waitress in Zourab’s underground fighting club. Zourab is now searching for a good martial artist to fight in his club. Boyka wants to help Alma pay her debt so he makes a deal with Zourab that he will fight for him in exchange for Alma’s freedom. Zourab agrees and suggests Boyka to fight in three matches.
Alma invites Boyka to the training room in the community center for his training. Boyka easily defeats his opponent in the first match. He then must fight two brothers in the second match and defeats them by double knock out. In the community center, Boyka asks Alma why she does not leave the town. She replies she cannot leave the children, and without this center the children could become gangsters or bad guys.
In the third match, Boyka defeats Igor Kazmir, the elite henchman of Zourab. He is about to leave, but Zourab forces him to fight one more match to defeat his true champion; Boyka reluctantly agrees. Zourab bribes a high-ranking police officer to bring Koshmar to his club. Koshmar is a giant, furious and relentless martial artist. Zourab thinks Boyka cannot defeat Koshmar.
Cast.
- Scott Adkins as Yuri Boyka
- Teodora Duhovnikova as Alma
- Alon Moni Aboutboul as Zourab
- Julian Vergov as Slava
- Brahim Achabbakhe as Igor Kazmir
- Paul Chahidi as Kiril
- Petio Petkov as Dominik
- Valentin Ganev as Warden Markov
- Vladimir Mihaylov as the Priest
- Martyn Ford as Koshmar
- Vladimir Kolev as Koychev
- Emilien De Falco as Viktor
- Tim Man as Ozerov Brother #1
- Andreas Nguyen as Ozerov Brother #2
