The Russian Specialist

Nikolai Cherenko once served in the Russian special forces, but he left that life behind to work as a mechanic and raise his family. When drug traffickers kill his wife and child, he takes violent revenge on the gang responsible and then leaves the country for the United States, settling in Los Angeles. Years later, a woman approaches him with an offer: travel back to Russia and rescue her daughter Julia from a group of kidnappers. Nikolai soon discovers that the man behind the abduction is the same crime boss he believed he had killed years earlier, and he accepts the mission as a chance to finish what he started.

The film is an action drama directed by Dolph Lundgren, who also stars as Cherenko and co-wrote the screenplay with Bryan Edward Hill. It was the first feature Lundgren directed, ahead of Missionary Man, Icarus, Castle Falls and Wanted Man. Ben Cross plays William Burton, with Ivan Petrushinov as the crime boss Sasha Popov and Olivia Lee as Julia Abramov. It was produced by David Varod, Anton Hoeger and Scott Putman for Nu Image Entertainment and Höger Human Service Medien, and runs 94 minutes.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 5.5 from around 4,200 votes, while on TMDB it has a rating of 5.1 from roughly 87 votes, indicating a modest response from viewers.