The Best of the Best 1989  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Robert Radler
Cast: James Earl Jones, Eric Roberts, Sally Kirkland, Phillip Rhee, John P. Ryan, John Dye, David Agresta, Tom Everett, Louise Fletcher, Chris Penn, Edan Gross, Simon Rhee, Kane Hodder
U.S. martial arts team members must face an extremely good Korean team. Coach Couzo (James Earl Jones), and trainer Wade (Sally Kirkland) teach them that "winning is always." The climax comes when they meet the Koreans for the match of their lifetimes.
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Best of the Best II 1993 R, 100 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Robert Radler
Cast: Eric Roberts, Phillip Rhee, Chris Penn, Edan Gross, Ralf Moeller, Meg Foster, Sonny Landham, Wayne Newton, Betty Carvalho, Simon Rhee, Claire Stansfield, Hayward Nishioka
Our heroes just led the U.S. martial arts team to a world championship, and now they are in Las Vegas where the secret, no-holds-barred Coliseum is in operation. After one of the team is killed in the ring by Brakus (Ralph Moeller), the good guys train for revenge. Wayne Newton plays the ringmaster.
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 Substitute 3: Winner Takes All 1999  R, 90 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Robert Radler
Cast: Treat Williams, David Jensen, Barbara Jane Reams, Brian Simpson, Jeff Jensen, Rebecca Staab, Erin Chambers, Michael Shane Davis, James Black, Ed Cameron
Treat Williams returns for his second role as mercenary Karl Thomasson, this time visiting a college professor at a Long Island school. When she is brutally assaulted, Karl substitutes for her to find who-done-it, etc. He calls in his buddies when the finger starts pointing to a steroid-ridden football team, and the war begins. Lots of violence; no real story.
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The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option 2000 R, 91 min.
Genre: Action
aka: The Substitute 4: Failure Is Not an Option
Director: Robert Radler
Cast: Treat Williams, Angie Everhart, Patrick Kilpatrick, Bill Nunn, Tim Abell, Grayson Fricke, Simon Rhee, Scott Miles, Brian Beegle, Samantha Thomas
In this episode of the series, ex-mercenary Karl Thomasson (Treat Williams) goes underground as a teacher at a private military school to deal with a neo-Nazi group of cadets intent on taking over the school–and, they are well-armed.
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| 1. The Best of the Best (1989)
2. Best of the Best II (1993)
3. Substitute 3: Winner Takes All (1999)
4. The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option (2000)
aka: The Substitute 4: Failure Is Not an Option
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