Every Scott Adkins Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

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1 Every Scott Adkins Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

Scott Adkins is a well-known action star and incredible martial artist, but with all of his action films, how do they rank from worst to best?

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How do the many action-packed movies of martial arts master Scott Adkins rank, from worst to best? Hailing from England, Scott Adkins is one of the most recognizable action stars around today, transitioning between different accents with ease and leaving viewers speechless with his simply astonishing abilities as a martial artist. Though his leading man work exists mainly in the straight-to-video world, that label has quite arguably flipped from the pejorative it once was to a legitimate selling point now that inventive action movies that forgo a wide theatrical release have begun putting much of their big-screen brethren to shame.

For those who don’t closely follow the straight-to-video action scene, Adkins is a face that millions know well, from minor roles in Unleashed, Zero Dark Thirty, and The Bourne Ultimatum to his show-stealing ethereal battle in Doctor Strange. Adkins has also occasionally ventured out of the martial arts-heavy roles he’s well known for, showing his genuine strengths as an actor. Nevertheless, like stunt maven Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jet Li, or Donnie Yen, the template of a “Scott Adkins movie” is something that is now well-established and beloved.

Whether in the Ninja films, more comedic roles like The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud, his numerous team-ups and battles against Van Damme, or his signature role as Yuri Boyka in the Undisputed franchise, Scott Adkins continues to thrill viewers with his winning blend of charisma, physicality, and well-honed martial arts prowess. Few of his vehicles are ever lackluster, and even some of his more B-level action movies pack a big punch, especially if Isaac Florentine is involved as director. Here are the 32 “Scott Adkins movies” ranked from the worst to the best.

32. Incoming

A prison action movie set in the International Space Station certainly sounds like a blast, which is more than can be said for the sci-fi film Incoming. When the terrorists aboard the space station hatch a plot to crash it into Moscow, it’s up to a handful of personnel to stop them, including the abrasive CIA operative Reiser, played by Adkins. Incoming is a case of a movie’s ambition exceeding what it’s capable of delivering — clearly being made with a shoestring budget — that it’s sadly not able to effectively mask. It also completely wastes the talents of Adkins with fight scenes that are both too few and underwhelming, along with a villainous twist in the last twenty minutes that only seems to be there for the sake of having one. Add in crummy visual effects a-plenty, and Incoming is sadly the worst Scott Adkins movie (Adkins himself having had shared his own disparaging words for it on social media).

31. Black Mask 2: City Of Masks

Ostensibly a sequel to the 1996 superhero movie of the legendary Jet Li, Black Mask, City of Masks is really a reboot that just didn’t bother to inform anyone of that fact. The movie follows Kan Fung, played by Andy On, a superhuman warrior who flees his old life to become a superhero clad in a Kato-inspired mask, battling pro-wrestlers turned into humanoid animals while also being pursued by the sinister kung fu scientist Dr. Lang, played by Adkins. City of Masks is goofy schlock, through and through, and feels like a product of the ’90s dark age of B-level comic book movies with a villain masked with a pair of oversized laboratory goggles, terribly rendered CGI effects, and a gigantic brain in a tub that wants the hero back in his clutches at all costs. City of Masks is absurd on every level, but the wire-fu heavy fight scenes are decent enough, and the final battle between Black Mask and Lang lets you know the film is being headlined by two future action stars in the making.

30. El Gringo

Released in 2012, El Gringo isn’t one of the more memorable Scott Adkins vehicles, but it’s passable as a Friday night watch. An unidentified traveler only known as “The Man” arrives in a Mexican town with a case full of $2 million, running afoul of drug cartels, DEA officials, and other assorted enemies, all while he simply wants nothing more than a glass of water. Adkins raises the film from what it otherwise would have been without him with an in-over-his-head performance, and the action scenes aren’t bad. As the antagonist, Christian Slater is also in tow and equally game as Lieutenant West. Overall, El Gringo is neither a bad action movie nor an especially great one.

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29. The Legend of Hercules

A January release in 2014 doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in something bearing the title The Legend of Hercules, and make no mistake, the film is no masterpiece, but taken on its own silly terms, it’s a goofy but charming B-movie. Scott Adkins plays the megalomaniacal King Amphitryon, whom the titular demigod, played by Kellan Lutz, seeks to overthrow. 2014 also saw the release of the Dwayne Johnson-led Hercules that summer, and when all was said and done, neither made that big an impact with most leaning a bit more favorably to the latter. Adkins is easily the standout of The Legend of Hercules, handling the fight scenes inspired by the epic scope of 300 beautifully and giving one of his hammiest villain performances to date. If you’ve got 90 minutes to kill, The Legend of Hercules will at least keep you on board with Scott Adkins going all in as its villain.

28. The Shepherd: Border Patrol

The first collaboration of Jean-Claude Van Damme and Scott Adkins, The Shepherd: Border Patrol came during the period between Undisputed 2 and Ninja when Adkins is still on the rise, and with Isaac Florentine at the helm, it’s an alright action flick. Van Damme portrays ex-New Orleans cop Jack Robideaux, who join the border patrol in New Mexico, and soon finds himself battling drug smugglers. Van Damme’s career had fallen off the radar a bit in the early 2000s, gradually working his way back up in his straight-to-video work, and Border Patrol is enough to make one wonder why he hasn’t worked with Florentine more frequently. Adkins is around to steal the show as the villain Karp, with his and Van Damme’s final fight being the highlight of the film. The two still struggled to find the perfect project and a fight sequence that truly put both of their skills to use, for a while, which ended up being Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, but Border Patrol at least got people used to the idea of Van Damme and Adkins on-screen together.

27. The Expendables 2

The sequel to Sylvester Stallone’s 2010 action star ensemble, The Expendables 2 hit theaters two years later with a bigger crew and more of everything that made the first such a blast. This time, the Expendables battle the gang of arms dealer Jean-Vilain, played by renown martial artist Jean-Claude Van Damme, who’s out to sell a cache of plutonium on the black market, while having a score to settle with him after his murder of their new recruit, Liam Hemsworth’s Billy the Kid. Scott Adkins turned down an offer for The Expendables over scheduling with Undisputed 3, and he clearly relished the second chance to board the series as Vilain’s aggressive associate Hector. As the best installment of the series, The Expendables 2 is lower on the list due to Adkins still being in a secondary role, but he channeled Boyka as Hector and got in one awesome fight scene with Jason Statham.

26. Assassination Games

The sophomore team-up of Jean-Claude Van Damme and Scott Adkins, Assassination Games is closer to a crime thriller than an action flick and is best enjoyed on that level. Van Damme and Adkins portray assassins Vincent Brazil and Roland Flint, who are forced to team-up in pursuit of a common enemy. Director Ernie Barbarash has repeatedly shown his skill with action films, later working with Van Damme again on Pound of Flesh and Adkins on Abduction, while Assassination Games settles into a darker, more simmering approach. Van Damme’s son Kristopher Van Varenberg also appears in the film in the role of Schell, while his daughter Bianca also portrays Flint’s comatose wife Anna. Taking the style of a chess game, Assassination Games works decently as an intellectual thriller, though the first confrontation between Brazil and Flint is decidedly far too brief.

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25. Legacy of Lies

A dark, contemplative spy thriller, Legacy of Lies basically takes the minor role Adkins had in the action-spy thriller The Bourne Ultimatum and puts him at the throttle. Adkins portrays Martin Baxter, a former British SAS operative who gets roped into a conspiracy involving the Russian mafia, and journalist Sacha, played by Yuliia Sobol. A spy movie first and an action film second, Legacy of Lies is polished and pristine even by today’s elevated straight-to-video standards, with enough solid action scenes to get the viewer’s blood pumping. That said, the pacing overall is a little too much on the slower side, but Adkins still flexes his versatility in a role less reliant on spinning kicks than what he’s known for. Picture Scott Adkins dropped into an early 90s’ thriller adapted from a Tom Clancy story, and Legacy of Lies would be it.

24. Abduction

Nearly two decades after the goofy Black Mask 2: City of Masks, Scott Adkins team up with Andy On again for the more straightforward Abduction. Adkins plays Quinn, a man abducted by otherworldly beings in 1985 and dropped into Vietnam in 2018, determined to rescue his daughter and teaming up with On’s Conner, who’s on a quest to save his abducted wife. Sharing some similarly wonky plot elements with their prior collaboration, Abduction is far more fine-tuned in its considerably darker premise, with plenty of great action scenes along the way, including a rematch between Adkins and On (the latter is far less known in the West than Adkins, but fans of Hong Kong action cinema know On well from movies like True Legend and Once Upon A Time In Shanghai). Abduction is largely an enjoyable mix of sci-fi action and man-on-the-run, though the ending is a bit of a head-scratcher in the impact it seems to be going for.

23. The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud

Scott Adkins veered way off out of his usual wheelhouse with the video game comedy The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud, and it’s a welcome case of zany reinvention. Adkins portrays the titular video game hero, who becomes a guide to Isabelle Allen’s Sarah. Sarah is an adolescent girl who finds herself pulled into the game and transformed into Max’s sidekick, Jake, played by Elliot James Langridge. The story is essentially a space spin on the Jumanji sequels, but Max Cloud keeps the formula fresh with lots of laughs, video game-inspired fight scenes, and a complete disregard for taking itself seriously. The comedic endeavors Adkins has made have always hewed into more adult territory, but he shows he can also deliver laughs in family movies with his committed, campy performance as Max Cloud.

22. Special Forces

The first of many collaborations between Scott Adkins and director Isaac Florentine, Special Forces is basically the opposite of Incoming, a very low-budget straight-to-video action movie that easily makes you forget it was made for pennies. Marshall Teague plays Major Don Harding, who commands a team of special forces troops on a rescue mission in Eastern Europe who end up joining forces with British SAS operative Talbot, played by Adkins, who has his own score to settle with one of the bad guys. Teague, well-known for Road House, is well-cast as the military commander, and while Adkins is in a supporting role, it’s one of the show-stealing sort, especially in his fight with the assassin Zaman, played by Vladislavas Jacukevicius in the midst of the explosion-filled final battle. If it were released today, Special Forces would be just the latest straight-to-video action movie to be well ahead of the big-screen competition. In its own time, Special Forces was the sort to quietly build up love being passed around among action fans like a form of mini-folklore.

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21. Ninja

After many supporting and villainous roles in the early 2000s, Scott Adkins graduated to leading man status with Ninja. The movie sees Adkins portray American Ninjutsu master Casey Bowman, who, along with his fellow student Namiko, played by Mika Hiji, must protect a chest of weaponry wielded by ninja warriors known as the Yoroi Bitsu from the bloodthirsty Masazuka, played by Tsutoshi Ihara. Ninja wasn’t quite as out-of-this-world as many had hoped. Its surprisingly brief run time makes it the rare case of an action movie being a little too fast-paced, and the final battle also blurs together otherwise excellent fight scenes. Nevertheless, Ninja is a fun modern update of the ’80s ninja movie craze, and showed that even when the Adkins-Florentine duo only earns a B, it’s what an A+ would look like for countless others.

20. Hard Target 2

Landing a whopping 23 years after the 1993 Jean-Claude Van Damme original, 2016’s Hard Target 2 is a belated but very worthy straight-to-video sequel. After highly formidable MMA fighter Wes “The Jailor” Baylor ends up killing his best friend in the ring, his guilt haunts him as he competes in underground fights in Thailand, before the promise of a big fight leads to him being hunted through the jungles of Myanmar. Hard Target 2 oddly shares Boyka: Undisputed’s plot device of Adkins playing a skilled MMA fighter who accidentally kills an opponent, but their similarities end there. True to the original, the movie is packed with plenty of gun-fu and martial arts, the latter being a more prominent element this time. A great cat and mouse game in the jungle and another fantastic leading man turn from Scott Adkins, Hard Target 2 is a case of better late than never.

19. Wolf Warrior

Wu Jing had back-to-back hits in 2015, starring in SPL 2: A Time For Consequences alongside Muay Thai maestro Tony Jaa, and directing and starring in the Chinese Rambo with 2015’s Wolf Warrior. Wu Jing plays Chinese soldier Leng Feng, who finds himself defending his unit during an attack by Western mercenaries hired by the vengeful drug lord brother of a terrorist Leng Feng previously killed. Scott Adkins plays the mercenary Tom Cat, and though martial arts is a secondary element of the movie, it doesn’t neglect to go out on a battle between him and Wu Jing. Two years later, Leng Feng’s first mission was completely overshadowed by the monstrous success of Wolf Warrior 2, but the original is still a briskly-paced action film with some martial arts fights added in, and boasting the talents of Wu Jing and Scott Adkins, it’s not one to miss.

18. Green Street 3: Never Back Down

The third chapter in the series of football hooligan-based films, Green Street 3: Never Back Down sees Adkins as Danny, a former member of the West Ham United’s Green Street Elite gang who returns to London to avenge the death of his brother in a hooligan fight. Green Street 3 is as rough and rowdy as you’d expect, with savagely brutal battles between each “firm” (a word of advice to American viewers – boning up on British slang wouldn’t be unwise). Joey Ansah of the YouTube hit Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist is also onboard as Danny’s cop friend Victor, with him, Christian Howard, and Amed Hashimi orchestrating the action scenes, which are nearly as full of swearing as they are actual strikes. As an action drama that’s a bit rougher around the edges, Green Street 3 gets the job done effectively.

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17. Seized

The latest straight-to-video title to boast the names of Scott Adkins and Isaac Florentine, Seized follows Adkins as former special ops agent Nero. Nero is coerced into eliminating the rival crime bosses of Mzamo, played by Mario Van Peebles, after his son is kidnapped. Seized is cut from the same cloth as Adkins and Florentine’s 2015 movie Close Range, a relatively low-scale but high-stakes action movie that knows exactly how to use its minor scope for maximum impact. Van Peebles is clearly having a ball as the sinister but not entirely irredeemable Mzamo, while the action scenes are frequent and predictably superb, including a face-off between Adkins and UFC fighter Uriah Hall. Though Christian Howard of Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist fame is underutilized, Seized shows that the potency of Adkins and Florentine’s work together has yet to wear off.

16. Castle Falls

Re-teaming Adkins with Dolph Lundgren, who also directs, Castle Falls sees Adkins portray Mike Wade, a former MMA champion who takes a temp job in an old hospital scheduled for demolition and discovers a collection of bags containing $3 million. However, a criminal gang arrives to get the money for their incarcerated big boss, along Richard Ericson (Lundgren), who needs money to save his dying daughter. Mike’s budding friendship with a fellow worker (Vas Sanchez) works in an Easter egg to Adkins’ Yuri Boyka, and though the film moves a fast pace, the script gives viewers plenty of time to get to know Mike and Ericson and sympathize with their tough situations. Lundgren’s direction keeps viewers on their toes with the ninety-minute timeframe the characters have until the building is brought down, which also keeps the gunplay compartmentalized due to the building being filled with explosives. This leaves plenty of open space for the movie’s martial arts fights, and with Tim Man as fight choreographer, they hit with everything fans of Adkins and Lundgren love to see.

15. Savage Dog

A low-budget action movie set in the jungles of 1959 Indochina, Savage Dog was the point where Jesse Johnson began to rise up the ranks of straight-to-video action filmmakers. Adkins’ Ex-IRA soldier Martin Tillman is trying to leave his life of no-holds-barred fights behind. After the murder of his friend, Valentine, played by played by Keith David, Tillman embarks on one last mission of payback. Adkins and Johnson have become as exemplary a director-star package as Adkins has long been with Isaac Florentine, and Savage Dog squeezes everything it can get out of its limited budget, with explosions and gunplay one wouldn’t readily expect from an action movie of this scale. The fight scenes of Savage Dog are also quite fittingly reflective of the title, with Adkins not only getting in a fantastic climactic rematch with Marko Zaror from Undisputed 3: Redemption, but even going head-to-head with MMA great Cung Le. Just two years ahead of her breakout role on the Netflix hit Wu Assassins, JuJu Chan Szeto also makes an appearance as Martin’s romantic interest, Isabella, and Keith David instantly elevates any movie by his sheer charisma and impossible to replicate grin.

14. Close Range

Arriving in 2015, Close Range would be a much more middling action movie under normal circumstances, but Scott Adkins as the leading man and Isaac Florentine as the director remains a proven combo. Adkins portrays the cynical, largely anti-social Iraq War vet Colt MacReady, who comes out of his reclusive life to rescue his niece after she’s been kidnapped by a Mexican crime boss. The plot isn’t anything groundbreaking, and any movie being set largely in such a singular area is always a sign of filmmaking frugality. However, in the hands of Isaac Florentine, Close Range is like John Wick on a farm, while adjusting Adkins’ usual on-screen fighting style to fit within the confines of the setting. Whether it’s MacReady’s more open-ranged battle with a determined assassin, played by fight choreographer Jeremy Marinas, or the Daredevil-worthy one-shot fight that opens the movie, Close Range is action movie minimalism of the highest order.

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13. The Debt Collector

Scott Adkins had been part of ensembles and duos before, but it wasn’t until 2018’s The Debt Collector that he really got the chance to be one half of a buddy movie pairing. When former British soldier French, played by Adkins, falls on some hard times, he joins up with local collector Sue, played by Louis Mandylor, to cash a quick payday in order to save the lease on his martial arts school. The fight sequences are as harsh and plentiful in The Debt Collector, but the real fun is in the head-butting chemistry of Adkins and Mandylor, shaking down defaulters increasingly reluctant to pay up. French is the acerbic tough guy next to Sue’s seasoned but marginally more diplomatic “mediator,” as the movie calls him. The ending is a trap door of shock for the fates of French and Sue, but sequel Debt Collectors shows they only sit on the bench for so long.

12. Debt Collectors

The ending of The Debt Collector may have left French and Sue at death’s door, but Debt Collectors just picks up with both of them alive and kicking once more. With French having just been fired from his gig as a bouncer, Sue recruits him for one last round of shakedowns in the underworld of Las Vegas. Debt Collectors is every bit the cauldron of dark humor and smackdowns of both the physical and verbal variety as the original. French’s caustic rundown of the American Revolution to a gang challenging him to a bar fight gets its history lesson wrapped up in a fraction of Hamilton’s runtime, with an acidic punchline well out of Disney+ territory. Just like its predecessor, the action scenes of Debt Collectors would be right at home in an R-rated Jackie Chan movie with their comedic profanity and punishment, with French and Sue finally hashing out their diverging professional methods in a They Live-inspired alley beatdown. As another analogy of navigating life’s harshest challenges, Debt Collectors keeps the laughs coming and the fists furious.

11. Eliminators

2016’s Eliminators would pit Scott Adkins against Stu Bennett, know in the WWE world as Wade Barrett, and the movie is a curiously under-the-radar offering from WWE Studios. Adkins’ Former U.S. special agent Thomas McKenzie lives a quiet life in London under the Witness Protection Program but is forced to spring back into action when his former father-in-law hatches a plot of vengeance. The villain plot is a little more layered and personal than one might expect, which adds some emotional weight to the story of Eliminators. The action scenes are also top-of-the-line, with Adkins even trading fisticuffs with Aaron Gassor, known on YouTube as Ginger Ninja Trickster. Without a doubt, the highlight of Eliminators is Adkins and Wade Barrett waging war not once but twice in a great blend of martial arts and wrestling. The lackluster trailer frankly did Eliminators no favors, but it’s lots of action-heavy fun regardless.

10. One Shot

Adkins’ third film with director James Nunn that unfolds in a single unbroken shot, One Shot follows him as Navy SEAL Jake Harris, arriving at a CIA prison to escort suspected terrorist Amir Mansur (Waleed Elgaldi) off site. When a group of insurgents storm the base to retrieve Mansur, government liaison Zoe Anderson (Ashley Green Khoury) realizes that he’s the only shot they have of stopping a dirty bomb from exploding in Washington D.C. With single-take action scenes leading to the rise of whole single shot movies like 1917, One Shot is one of the best to ever pull that gimmick off. One Shot is consistently gripping with the protagonist’s bottle-necked into an office while trying to hold the incoming attacks at bay. One Shot also has a surprising amount of emotional pathos in Mansur’s tragic loss of his son in a U.S. drone strike and his stumbling into a peripheral connection to the insurgent’s plot in his grieving. One Shot brings the feel of a video game to its explosive conflict, and allows Adkins to channel a more close-quarters fighting style with knives and grappling maneuvers in the fight scenes. When it comes to the intricate art of single-take action, One Shot is immersive and powerful as it gets.

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9. Ip Man 4: The Finale

For the last chapter of the beloved saga of Bruce Lee’s mentor, Donnie Yen himself wanted Scott Adkins as its villain, with a mere photo of the two holding the script posted to social media being enough to make Ip Man 4: The Finale twice the must-see it already was for fans of the series. The titular Wing Chun master and mentor to Bruce Lee himself travels to San Francisco to look for a school to send his rebellious son to. His peaceful efforts to build cultural bridges put him at odds with both the Chinese kung fu community and xenophobic locals, especially Gunnery Sergeant Barton Geddes, played by Adkins. By this point, Donnie Yen could embody Ip Man blindfolded and with his hands tied behind his back, and his swan song to his signature role is impactful and emotional. Danny Chan is also excellent as Bruce Lee just hitting his prime, with Chris Collins a formidable foe to Ip Man as belligerent Marine hand-to-hand combat instructor Colin Frater. Meanwhile, Adkins gives one of his most off-the-chain villain performances yet as the impossibly bellicose Geddes. The Ip Man series concluded on a high note with Ip Man 4, complete with a Donnie Yen-Scott Adkins battle that made The Finale a grand one.

8. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

Though Scott Adkins has churned out several of the best modern action movies in the straight-to-video arena, it’s still quite the surprise that one of them also happens to be the best Universal Soldier movie. Adkins plays a man named John, who awakens in a hospital bed after his family is murdered by former UniSol Luc Devereaux, played by Jean-Claude Van Damme. John soon finds himself on the run alongside a woman named Sarah (Mariah Bonner) and realizing there’s far more at play than he thought. After the superb franchise revival that was 2009’s Universal Soldier: Regeneration, Day of Reckoning is like a psychedelic Jason Bourne-style horror movie as John realizes his superhuman strength and laboratory origins, with action scenes that are as visceral as the battles of The Raid movies. For a sci-fi series that never truly rose to greatness, Day of Reckoning, in its own way, is Matrix-levels of labyrinthine storytelling wrapped around loads of spectacular martial arts action.

7. Accident Man

Based on the eponymous title featured in the British comic book Toxic! from the early ’90s, Accident Man sees Adkins portray Mike Fallon, an assassin specializing in making his hits look like tragic misfortunes, with Fallon going on a revenge mission after his pregnant ex-girlfriend is murdered. Accident Man had long been the pet project of Adkins, and he produced and co-wrote the screenplay with Stu Small. While he’s long been known for harder action movies, Accident Man showed that he was equally adept at black comedy. In particular, the underground world of John Wick would be given a comedic spin in Fallon’s zany cluster of fellow assassins, including the duo Mick and Mac, played by Michael Jai White and Star Wars alum Ray Park, along with the aptly named Jane the Ripper, played by Amy Johnston. Lacking in neither action nor laughter, Accident Man was another win for the R-rated comic book movie subgenre.

6. Avengement

5. Triple Threat

After being Jean-Claude Van Damme’s right-hand man in The Expendables 2, Scott Adkins got to unleash all of his antagonistic might in the mega-martial arts ensemble Triple Threat. Alongside Adkins as the main villain are Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Tiger Chen, Michael Jai White, Jeeja Yanin, Michael Bisping, and Ron Smoorenburg, a line-up guaranteed to leave any martial arts movie lover speechless just reading it. When a team of mercenaries led by the vicious Collins, played by Adkins, targets a wealthy benefactor combating organized crime, it’s up to Payu and Long Fei, played by Jaa and Chen, to stop them with the help of the crafty Jaka, played by Uwais. Also under the direction of Jesse Johnson, Triple Threat is economical to the extreme, wasting no time to get the ball rolling on its action-packed sales pitch, and swiftly putting the extremely talented martial artist Uwais and Chen in a Muay Thai fight as a do-over from their disappointing prior face-off in Man of Tai Chi. All of it builds to a glorious finale of Triple Threat’s ensemble waging war on one another, and through it all, Adkins cements once more he’s just as energetic and wildly engaging as a villain as he is a hero.

4. Undisputed 2: Last Man Standing

In the early 2000s, Scott Adkins was a name and a face that many had some general but not intimate familiarity with from his work in action movies, but Undisputed 2 was his breakout as the indomitably determined prison MMA fighter Yuri Boyka. Pitting him opposite Michael Jai White’s George “Iceman” Chambers, Undisputed 2 pulls off an unexpected and very clever switcheroo of getting viewers to cheer for the downfall of Chambers with his pompous attitude while also getting them on Boyka’s side through his unbreakable focus of proving that he truly is The Most Complete Fighter in the World. True to that boast, the fight scenes of Undisputed 2 are absolutely off-the-hook.

3. Undisputed 3: Redemption

A shattered knee can only put The Most Complete Fighter in the World down for so long, with Boyka stepping back into the ring in Undisputed 3: Redemption. This time, Boyka’s pulled into an international MMA tournament of eight prisoners from around the world competing for their freedom, developing an alliance with Mykel Shannon Jenkins’ Turbo when it becomes clear that the competition is being rigged in the favor of Dolor, played by Marko Zaror. As the villainous Colombian fighter, Zaror is a delectably slimy adversary and a real rival for Boyka, whose bad knee from the last movie gives him one more obstacle to overcome. The fight sequences also continue to be out-of-this-world, especially Boyka and Dolor’s final showdown, but by the end of the movie, another battle would still lie ahead for him.

2. Ninja II: Shadow of a Tear

1. Boyka: Undisputed

Boyka’s movies have always packed a punch, but Boyka: Undisputed is easily the most personal and emotional fight he’s ever faced. After accidentally killing an opponent in the ring, Boyka risks his newfound freedom traveling back to Russia to compete in a series of fights in order to free the fighter’s widow from the clutches of the Russian mafia. Directed by Todor Chapkanov with Isaac Florentine producing, Boyka: Undisputed is the best of the series, the Undisputed franchise always getting better and the MMA battles as radioactively exhilarating as ever. It’s also the deepest of the three in showing not just the honorable man that Boyka has always been, but the good one that’s he’s been all along, confronting the guilt he holds over the sins of his past and putting everything he’s achieved for himself on the line to right a terrible wrong. Boyka: Undisputed caps off Boyka’s story with incredible action wrapped in a story of sacrifice and atonement, and is Scott Adkins’ best to date – though hopefully, either that pitched Undisputed TV series or simply Undisputed 5 in movie form get off the ground to get Boyka back into the ring again!

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