Boyka is back! Plot synopsis: “In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Yuri Boyka (Scott Adkins) is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. Unfortunately, there’s basically no build-up to this crescendo.īOYKA UNDISPUTED 4. His fights are varied and abundant and this highly unrealistic movie builds to when Boyka is forced to fight Koshmar (Martyn Ford), a 6’8” monstrosity of tattoos, muscle and rage. And no matter what general filmmaking flaws surround him, Adkins knows how to please his fans! Adkins continues to deliver his trademark stunts featured in long shots featuring upwards of ten techniques between cuts-the way martial arts should be filmed. On top of that, the dialogue is terrible and loaded with soap operatic melodramaand did you know that apparently everyone in the Ukraine and Russia speaks English all the time? Don’t even get me started on this plot.īut what this director does right is he gives us more of Adkins as Boyka. The frame rate makes Boyka look too fast to look credible (Adkins is fast enough on his own) and the photography isn’t exactly top notch. Director Todor Chapkanov doesn’t have much experience at the helm and it shows. The last several years have been kind to Adkins’ fans, but we all still wanted more of the role that truly made him famous: BOYKA! After killing a fighter in the ring, Boyka (Scott Adkins) seeks to redeem himself by paying off his dead opponent’s widow’s (Teodora Duhovnikova) debts to a Russian gangster by agreeing to three profitable organized fights. Ever since we first met Scott Adkins (Doctor Strange, Ninja: Shadow of a Tear, The Expendables 2, Universal Solder: Day of Reckoning, El Gringo, Assassination Games, Hard Target 2) and his flair for technical stunts and martial arts fight choreography, we’ve wanted to see him in more significant action movie roles. But we do get MORE ADKINS AS BOYKA, and I’m pretty sure that’s all we really wanted. This (along with part III) isn’t a very good sequel the story isn’t good and the writing sucks.
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