Best of the Best 4: Without Warning

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Best of the Best 4: Without Warning
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Directed by Phillip Rhee
Written byPhillip Rhee
Fred Vicarel
Produced byPhillip Rhee
Peter Strauss
StarringPhillip Rhee
Ernie Hudson
Tobin Bell
Jessica Collins
Thure Riefenstein
Paul Gleason
Art LaFleur
Christopher Lemmon
CinematographyMichael Margulies
Edited byBert Lovitt
Music byDavid Grant
Production
company
Picture Securities Ltd.
Distributed by Dimension Home Video (Buena Vista Home Entertainment)
Release date
  • October 20, 1998 (1998-10-20)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Best of the Best 4: Without Warning is a 1998 American martial arts action film written and directed by the film's star, Phillip Rhee. It is the third sequel in the Best of the Best film series. The film co-stars Ernie Hudson, Tobin Bell, Paul Gleason, and Sven-Ole Thorsen.

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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 a young woman named Mickey (Jill Ritchie) working for the mobsters decides to turn herself in and hand over a data CD to the police, she is shot and killed, but not before handing the disc to an unsuspecting Tommy Lee (Phillip Rhee). 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 Stephanie (Jessica Huang) to hold as a hostage in exchange for the disc. When Lee catches the mobsters fleeing in a C130, he raises himself on a fire engine and casts the mobster's own bomb into the plane as landing gear doors close.

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