YMMV / Undisputed II: Last Man Standing

• Anti-Climax Boss:
  • Boyka is Chambers's supposed superior on the ring, but he never actually lives up to his status. At their first fight, not only he gets laughably knocked down for trying idiotically to beat Chambers on his field of expertise, but also fails at returning the favor in his own field after dropping the handicap. Although he starts controlling the match with his kicks and throws, Boyka is visibly frustrated because he is still not dropping Chambers down, and ultimately only wins the fight thanks to a treacherously spiked water bottle. The result of this is that, with Boyka never looking so difficult to defeat in the first place, Chambers's posterior training for their rematch is ultimately meaningless.
  • In line with the previous, the final fight ends up having very little suspense, because Chambers has turned out so good that he can counter basically all Boyka throws at him. Aside from an instance in which it looks Boyka would have submitted him if not for the bell, all of it amounts to Chambers working the Russian up methodically (including grabbing him in a Neck Lift who should belong to a villain, not the protagonist of the film) until scoring his final, gruesome victory.
• Anvilicious: Cross-training is cool. Being a jerk isn't.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Boyka steals both the film and its sequels from the main character.
• Narm:
  • Boyka casually murdering two cornermen with throat strikes. Wasn't he in prison just for a single murder?
  • The bone-crunching sounds inserted during the leglock exchanges. The are ridiculous not only because they are cartoonishly exaggerated, but also because if they were real, it would mean those gentlemen are getting his legs destroyed for life. Although this does happen, kind of, when Boyka gets the shorter end of the stick.
  • The overtly dramatic ending of Nikolai and his daughter, with colourful flowers and cheesy camera takes.
• Questionable Casting: Nothing against Michael Jai White's acting or choreography, but his character Chambers does not move like a boxer at all, mostly because White, while being an accomplished martial artist, is not a boxer. His build is also noticeably different from Ving Rhames, which only accents the difference between films.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Boyka has some twisted sense of honor, which Chambers notoriously lacks and struggles to develop. He also avoids inflicting crippling injuries to his opponents, even although it would be viciously easy for him to do, while Chambers only wins after brutally snapping his knee in a crude kneebar. Finally, although Boyka is a murderer, the first Undisputed film reveals that Chambers is a convicted rapist. After all those comparisons, it becomes naturally easy for the viewer to find Boyka more likable than Chambers, and this is the reason why the franchise adopted him as the new main character.