I was wishing I could have seen more of Andy On as a slick assassin facing down Russian mobsters as opposed to Stuttering Scott hunting down inter-dimensional aliens harvesting DNA and rebuilding some super feng shui compass to get home.

I checked this out for Adkins but it’s On who walks away with the movie’s coolest scene: Offering his captors tea and snacks before beating seven bells out of them. Abduction could have used more of such scenes.

Hey Dan. There’s a few! For me my overall favorite fighting performance of his is in Dennis Law’s ‘Bad Blood’ (inexplicably re-titled ‘King of Triads’ for its US release) from 2010, the same year he had what’s probably his most distinctive performance, as the villain in Yuen Woo-Ping’s ‘True Legend’. He’s fought Donnie Yen twice, playing the villain in both 2011’s ‘The Lost Bladesman’ and 2013’s ‘Special ID’ (in which he ironically replaced Vincent Zhao, his co-star in ‘True Legend’). He’s close with fellow thespian Philip Ng, and their co-starring roles facing off against each in 2014’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Shanghai’ and 2019’s ‘Undercover Punch and Gun’ are both worth a watch. For outright fun, it’s hard to go wrong with 2014’s ‘Zombie Fight Club’.

Also, I re-watched the fight scene at the end where Scott Adkins becomes imbued with alien powers, and it made me realize that I need another Universal Soldier movie ASAP.

The beginning with Scot Adkins’ stutter made me cringe, but the action beats were good. I’m glad that Scott Adkins and Andy On were given a proper fight scene together after that messily choreographed fight in Black Mask 2.

While the Iqiyi version is a bit more Andy focused in the edit

That’s a good question, I did fast forward through the Producer’s cut, and honestly didn’t notice any discernible difference. Maybe co-producer Mike Leeder could shed some light on the matter?

C’mon, this was far more entertaining than ‘Seized’! The good news is, the soon to be released millennial romantic thriller ‘Dead Reckoning’ got a lower rating, which now looks like it’ll be kicking off the 2021 Scott Adkins-athon.

Cheers Dan, and we can now make if official, you’re a COF influencer! (The 2nd most sought after influencer title after Instagram :-D)

A lot of fun making the movie in both Vietnam and China, we had a great team and i managed to craxk my sternum fighting Andy On(my fault) which was fun!

He did 🙁

The initial vibe I got from Abduction wasn’t too dissimilar from yours. I ended up putting it on one night while doing laundry, with a very casual “let’s see what the hell this thing is” kind of approach. What I ended up getting was a fun, warm-hearted sci-fi action flick, with both Scott Adkins and Andy On putting on strong and likeable performances.

I had no idea there were two different cuts. The version I watched was simply streamed off of VUDU (no physical), and a little bit of investigation leads me to believe that this may have been the shorter producer’s cut. While I doubt there’s much difference, the blu-ray’s already been on my wishlist for a while now, so, hey… there’s one more excuse for me to finally buy it. 🙂

Excellent review as always. Cheers.

The answer to all of your questions is – yes! Rumour has it that Leeder is actually playing the same character as he did in ‘Fearless’, so if you’re interested to learn about the referees fate 13 years on, this is the place to be.

We should also point out that this review is dedicated to Dan Hagen!