Best of the Best 4: Without Warning is a 1998 direct-to-video

Direct-to-video

Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television...

 martial arts

Martial arts film

Martial arts film is a film genre. A sub-genre of the action film, martial arts films contain numerous fights between characters, usually as the films' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often as a method of storytelling and character expression and development. Martial arts are frequently...

-action film

Action film

Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...

 written and directed by the film's star, Phillip Rhee

Phillip Rhee

Phillip Rhee is a Korean-American actor and director, most famous for his role in the Best of the Best movie series....

. It is the third sequel

Sequel

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 in the Best of the Best

Best of the Best

Best of the Best is a 1989 martial arts film. The plot revolves around a team of Americans facing a team of Koreans in a taekwondo tournament. Several sub plots pop up in the story - moral conflicts, the power of the human spirit triumphing over adversity are some themes...

film series. The film co-stars Ernie Hudson

Ernie Hudson

Ernest Lee "Ernie" Hudson is an American actor known for his roles as Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters film series, Sergeant Albrecht in The Crow, and Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz.-Early life:...

, Tobin Bell

Tobin Bell

Tobin Bell is an American film and television character actor. After years of work doing stand-ins and background work on films, he got his first major acting job in Mississippi Burning and went on to star in made-for-television films and guest star in television shows throughout the 1990s.Bell...

, Paul Gleason

Paul Gleason

Paul Xavier Gleason was an American film and television actor, known for his roles on TV series such as All My Children and films such as The Breakfast Club, Trading Places and Die Hard.-Early life:...

, and Sven-Ole Thorsen

Sven-Ole Thorsen

Sven-Ole Thorsen is a Danish actor, stuntman, bodybuilder and strongman competitor. Sven won Denmark's Strongest Man in 1983....

.

Plot

A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with counterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to turn herself in and hand over a data CD to the DA, she is shot and killed, but not before handing the disc to an unsuspecting Tommy Lee. Despite working with the police as a martial arts instructor, Lee doesn't go to the cops with the disc, but instead goes on the run, giving the mafia time to kidnap his daughter and hold as a hostage in exchange for return of the disc.

Cast

• Phillip Rhee
  Phillip Rhee
  Phillip Rhee is a Korean-American actor and director, most famous for his role in the Best of the Best movie series....
  
   as Tommy Lee
• Ernie Hudson
  Ernie Hudson
  Ernest Lee "Ernie" Hudson is an American actor known for his roles as Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters film series, Sergeant Albrecht in The Crow, and Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz.-Early life:...
  
   as Detective Gresko
• Tobin Bell
  Tobin Bell
  Tobin Bell is an American film and television character actor. After years of work doing stand-ins and background work on films, he got his first major acting job in Mississippi Burning and went on to star in made-for-television films and guest star in television shows throughout the 1990s.Bell...
  
   as Lukast Slava
• Art LaFleur
  Art LaFleur
  -Life and career:La Fleur was born in Gary, Indiana. He played football in 1962 as a redshirt at the University of Kentucky under Coach Charlie Bradshaw as chronicled in a 2007 book, The Thin Thirty....
  
   as Big Joolie
• Jessica Collins as Karina
• Chris Lemmon
  Chris Lemmon
  -History:Lemmon was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Cynthia Stone and actor Jack Lemmon. With a natural talent for music, he was encouraged by his father to study piano. Lemmon considered playing piano professionally after having graduated from the California Institute of the...
  
   as Jack Jarvis
• Sven-Ole Thorsen
  Sven-Ole Thorsen
  Sven-Ole Thorsen is a Danish actor, stuntman, bodybuilder and strongman competitor. Sven won Denmark's Strongest Man in 1983....
  
   as Boris
• Jessica Huang as Stephanie
• Thure Riefenstein
  Thure Riefenstein
  Thure Riefenstein is an actor with a German-Serbian background and was born in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, as the youngest of two children.-Biography:...
  
   as Yunika Slava
• Jill Ritchie
  Jill Ritchie
  Jill Susanne Ritchie is an American actress born on March 5, 1974 in Romeo, Michigan.She starred in the 2004 film D.E.B.S. and in Breakin' All the Rules, and had a guest role as Bluth family publicist Jessie in an episode of Arrested Development. She co-starred in the VH1 television series I Hate...
  
   as Micky
• Ilia Volokh as Mia
• Garrett Warren as Voktor
• David Fralick as Oleg
• Monte Perlin as Sergi
• Marco Verdier as Black Cop