Ultimate Force is a 2005

2005 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

 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 Mark Burson, starring kickboxing

Kickboxing

Kickboxing refers to a group of martial arts and stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from karate, Muay Thai and western boxing....

/MMA

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

 superstar Mirko Filipović

Mirko Filipovic

Mirko Filipović is a former Croatian heavyweight kickboxer, mixed martial artist, politician, and law enforcement officer. Filipović was a member of the Croatian Parliament from 2003 through 2007...

 as a tough war veteran. The film was released theatrically in the Croatia

Croatia

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 and directly to video

Direct-to-video

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 in the United States

United States

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 and most parts of the world.

Plot

Agent Axon Rey, a heavily decorated war hero and former police officer, is send to a rehabilitation island called "Gulag 7" under the nickname "Sphinx". He has to perform an extremely dangerous mission.

Cast

• Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović
  Mirko Filipovic
  Mirko Filipović is a former Croatian heavyweight kickboxer, mixed martial artist, politician, and law enforcement officer. Filipović was a member of the Croatian Parliament from 2003 through 2007...
  
   as Axon Rey alias "Sphinx"
• Igor Galo as Janus/The Controller
• Bozidar Smiljanic as The Director
• Ruza Madarevic as Sari/Nina
• Kishore Mandhyan as Vishnu Prana
• Zvonimir Lucic as Interrogator, the men who tortures Axon Ray
• Matthew Earley as Guggenheim
• Christopher Forbes
  Christopher Forbes
  Christopher "Kip" Forbes is Vice Chairman of the Forbes Publishing company. He attended St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts, and Princeton University....
  
   as Caesar

Reception

The film drastically received mixed to negative reviews. However, Patrick Vuong, a Black Belt Magazine columnist, gave a positive review. "With its beautiful cinematography and Cro-Cop

Mirko Filipovic

Mirko Filipović is a former Croatian heavyweight kickboxer, mixed martial artist, politician, and law enforcement officer. Filipović was a member of the Croatian Parliament from 2003 through 2007...

 driven action, Ultimate Force is Universal Soldier

Universal Soldier (1992 film)

Universal Soldier is a 1992 American science fiction action film directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren as soldiers who kill each other in Vietnam but are reanimated in a secret Army project along with a large group of other previously dead...

meets The Bourne Supremacy

The Bourne Supremacy (film)

The Bourne Supremacy is a 2004 American spy film very loosely based on Robert Ludlum's novel of the same name. The film was directed by Paul Greengrass, written by Tony Gilroy and Brian Helgeland, and produced by Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley. Universal Pictures released the film to theaters in...

", he wrote.

Sequel

There were plans for the sequel of the film, titled Ultimate Force II: S.I.N. Retribution, but the project was canceled before the production started. Mirko Filipović was set to star as Axon Rey once again.