Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight (1992) in my opinion is the best one in the series and honestly my favorite film in the Bloodfist series. It is entertaining an adrenaline, prison style action flick from the 90's. I know I wrote years ago about Bloodfist review and saying it is my favorite film, which I watch it more times, than I have watched this one. I love prison movies my all time favorite prison movie is Death Warrant (1990) with Van Damme which he made that movie 2 years earlier before Don "The Dragon" Wilson made this movie. Honestly I would say this one in the series for me, is the best one and it is completely different film from all the rest seven movies that Don Wilson made. I have enjoyed the action, the fighting sequences and mostly I have enjoyed a real portraying of a human drama in this film. The acting from Don Wilson and the rest of the actors is convincing and the fighting scenes are very realistic.I grew up watching Don "The Dragon" Wilson's movies and a lot of his movies are crap. Not that he was the worst actor, but he was never wounded like Steven Seagal and he was never bloody, or even trying to put a hard fight, everything was acted nonsense which it was stupid. I always hate that Wilson has to get a girl on the end of his action movies (not counting Bloodfist sequels except VII , he always has to make sex scenes. I never believed that Don Wilson is a sold out for making such a awful cheap horrible movies. Bloodfist and Bloodfist IV: Die Trying were the only movies that I have saw on a TV as a kid. I never saw other movies until on TV arrived Bloodfist VI and VII. Anyway watching this movie again for the second time I have watched 5. years ago on DVD , I was really surprised by the acting, by the action drama in prison and how good it turned out to be. Don Wilson really surprised me, the first Bloodfist movie was a rip off of Van Damme's Bloodsport (1988) this movie it wasn't and Wilson even had a sex scene in the first movie, which I hated that. In this movie nether once he had a girl, or sex, which he did not had one neither sex scenes at all and I love that. I know I wrote on Death Warrant my review that this movie ripped off the idea from Death warrant I was wrong.This movie is way different from Death Warrant is not even a close similar, this film shows the real life in prison, how is the life behind the bars. A lot of fans are watching Bloodfist series for the fight scenes and action, but this movie is better for me than all of them. I don't agree with IMDb scoring 4.9 this movie deserves at least 6 rating not 4.9. The other actors like are Richard Roundtree as Stark, Gregory McKinney as Blue and Rick Dean as Wheelhead did all a wonderful job playing their characters. I have enjoyed all of them together and again the portraying a human drama in this movie is very realistic and the fight scenes, especially on the end with Wilson fighting Gregory McKinney and Rick Dean while throwing the gas in their faces is very realistic. This is the first time I have ever saw Don Wilson bleeding out and that he got hits and beatings in a kick boxing fight.Don Wilson also plays a different character a prisoner Jimmy Boland in the first two movies he played Jake Raye, in this movie he play's completely different character and well done. I love Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight to death it is my favorite film in the Bloodfist series. Upon re watching this recently I'm pretty sure this is the best movie in the series; it has a genuinely interesting plot and it's also the most gritty and hardcore of the series. A young boy even gets raped in prison during the opening scene which pretty much sets the tone for this movie. This has a very different tone from the "fun" martial arts flicks that were the first two Bloodfist movies whereas this is more serious and frankly disturbing.Bloodfist III: Forced To Fight is my favorite film in the series and I love it to death. This flick get's a perfect 10 score by me. It feels pretty authentic with the supporting cast all looking like genuine criminals, giving it an extra air of grittiness. This film is awesome.

Jimmy Boland, a Japanese-American serving time in a Los Angeles prison after being wrongfully convicted of a barroom brawl, is moved to the prison's toughest section after killing the prison's kingpin for revenge over the rape & murder of Jimmy's young friend. He is placed in the same cell as the prison's jailhouse lawyer Samuel Stark. At first, Jimmy wants to do his own time, but with two opposing groups after him as a star recruit, Jimmy begins to use his formidable fighting skills to stay alive – and in doing so embarrasses the prison's incompetent warden.The Bloodfist series has become one of the 1990s' most prolific B-grade action franchises – which is somewhat surprising since the original Bloodfist was nothing more than a cheap rip-off of the early works of Jean-Claude Van Damme (think BLOODSPORT & you're halfway there). A cheap knock-off it might have been, but the original Bloodfist was surprisingly successful in its limited theatrical release, so much so that producer Roger Corman greenlit something like eight sequels to date.I went into Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight expecting more of the same plot-less kickboxing mayhem that the first two films made a living off, only to be somewhat surprised. Forced to Fight doesn't feature much in the way of brutal hand-to-hand combat (unless you count the several bouts between Don "The Dragon" Wilson & his fellow inmates) but actually is the first film in the series to focus on the story. Granted, the story isn't terribly innovative & the character arcs are predictable, but the film wears its well-trodden concept as a badge of honour.There were some things that I found extremely unusual in a film like this. Director Oley Sassone shakes things up in a passable fashion – the hero is wrongfully accused of a fatal brawl & is serving time for it (an indictment of racial profiling) who kills the prison's kingpin as revenge for the prisoner raping & killing one of the hero's friends, resulting in the prison being split along racial lines. There is even a riot at the film's climax. The most unusual thing is the inclusion of a child molester as one of the hero's friends – I found this to be quite repellent but at the same time intrigued by the screenwriters' bold move, probably an attempt to show that all prisoners are only human, no matter what crime they are accused of.The film features some excellent performances. Wilson still has the acting range of a plank of wood but he is steadily improving. Here, he is given some rope to deliver more dialogue than he did in the previous three films he had made (the first two Bloodfist films & the cheapjack futuristic thriller FUTURE KICK). There is even a scene where he simply holds up his fist & remarks "This is my power." which is indicative of the career he has made for himself so far. Richard Roundtree is by far the best actor of the bunch, playing the jailhouse lawyer to good effect. Gregory McKinney & Rick Dean both are suitably slimy as the two opposing faction leaders in the prison & their eventual alliance is a sign that even in prison, allegiance is relative to human nature.

Bloodfist III:Forced To Fight respectively stars Don Wilson as a prisoner who fights to survive the violence caused by racial gangs and the fury delivered by the leaders after a shift in power. Richard "Shaft" Roundtree is the mentor who takes Don Wilson under his wing and is the best thing about the movie. Don Wilson gets about as good as he ever gets and it helps that he is supported by a group of good supporting actors who give conviction to their roles. The main problem is that I was expecting kickboxing and lots of it, while it delivered enough of this to satisfy me, the whole Shawnshank Redemption approach mixed with kickboxing to the head never quite comes together the way it should. Others have given great reviews on this movie and while I agree that this is probably the best of the series it is still far from a good movie. It is instead just a decent martial arts time killer. The film's biggest crime however was inspiring the ultra lame Live By The Fist.* *1/2 out of 4-(Pretty good)

I felt that Don Wilson, the director and his supporting cast did a lot with little money. The script was strong as well as the performances of much of the cast. This ensemble helped bring Wilson's acting to another level. The action was OK, It could've been much better but it wasn't bad.