This is probably the best of the first three Undisputed movies, and it knows exactly why anyone showed up: to watch Scott Adkins kick the living daylights out of people in increasingly ridiculous prison fights. The acting is not exactly collecting awards, but that hardly matters when the fight scenes are this good. Adkins is a blast as the anti-hero, Marko Zaror is the perfect villain, and the whole movie has that wonderfully trashy “rich psychos sponsoring human demolition derbies” energy. I also liked that the story is not as straight-line simple as you’d expect, which gives it a little more charm than the usual punch-now, plot-later formula. Basically, this is a prison fight movie with no illusions of being high art, and thank God for that, because what it delivers instead is a badass, wildly entertaining beatdown.

This is nothing more than a mixture of Jean Claude van Damme's _Lionheart_ and _Bloodsport_ mixed with _Rocky_ and a few other fight movies. The fight choreography was intense, although a bit far-fetched and hard to believe numerous times throughout the fim, and the story itself was just absolutely rotten. I mean, seriously, there was nothing here. JCVD's _Lionheart_ is one of my favorite movies of his but apart from the fight scenes, I usually wind up skipping through the story because it's so bad. You could have done that here, except there are a lot of fights (and that's a GOOD thing!) in this movie, so it's best to just cripple through the awful story surrounding the fights so you don't miss anything. Seriously this was just a really bad story with some really good fight scenes in it. The acting was completely awful and the ending was reminiscent of a blend of _Lionheart_ and _Rocky_ together. So absolutely cheesy that you wind up wishing they had just cut the film off after the final fight scene. If you like Scott Adkins, and/or if you're a fan of fight movies, you'll probably enjoy this one but don't go into it expecting a great story. It isn't; it's awful but the fight scenes make it (IMO) worth sitting through.

_Undisputed III: Redemption_ is one of those films whose high ratings on IMDb and similar sites make me wonder if we even watched the same movie. What I saw was not a hidden gem of martial arts cinema but a cheap, uninspired production that barely rises above direct-to-video filler. Visually, the film is shockingly poor. The cinematography looks like a knock-off from The Asylum, complete with that murky, artificial dark filter used to disguise low-budget sets. The entire story plays out in essentially two locations and a ring, giving the impression of a hastily staged TV drama rather than a professional feature film. The acting is nearly nonexistent. Characters are flat archetypes, their lines mechanical, with no emotional weight or believability. The script is pure cliché: fighters battling in a prison tournament for redemption, freedom, or some vague prize. We have seen this narrative countless times before, and it was tired long before this film was made. Even the fight choreography, which should have been the movie’s saving grace, loses impact when surrounded by such hollow storytelling and cheap presentation. Honestly, if I want to see real intensity and skill, I would rather watch actual combat sports than actors mimicking them in such a shallow context. The cult following around this film baffles me. Perhaps fans overlook everything else because they crave any martial arts spectacle. But cinema should be more than staged fights. To me, Undisputed III is nothing more than disposable entertainment with an inflated reputation.

Good: -Excellent action, as spectacular as the previous movie but since this movie is focused on an international prison fight tournament there is much more action than the second one. -Boyka steps up as the protagonist and he is more furious than ever (great perfomance by Scott Adkins) -The other fighters are convincing and well distinguished. Each one of them has his own features and his own combat style and this makes the fights entertaining and unpredictable. -The main villain Dolor is a real a.hole -The ending Bad: -The plot is shallow and predictable. It's the reason because i think this film despite the outstanding action is slightly worse than the previous one. -The buddy relationship between Boyka and Turbo doesn't work so well and the scenes that are supposed to be funny are actually not. Bluray Quote: "God has given me a gift. Only one. I am the most complete fighter in the world" - Yuri Boyka