 In 2000 , Lundgren starred in The Last Warrior as Captain Nick Preston under director Sheldon <unk> . This post apocalyptic movie is set in 2006 in the context of a 9 @.@ 5 @-@ magnitude earthquake which kills millions of people , with Preston leading a motley military patrol on the island to help survivors in the pole shift @-@ affected world . The film was partly shot in Eilat , Israel . Later in 2000 , Dolph appeared in Damian Lee 's Agent Red ( also known as Captured ) , alongside Alexander Kuznetsov , Natalie Radford and Randolph <unk> . The film is set during the Cold War , and is about two soldiers trapped on a submarine with a group of terrorists who plan to use a chemical weapon against the United States . Lundgren 's character , Matt Hendricks , must work with his wife , a virologist , to prevent the scenario occurring . After the film was completed , producer Andrew Stevens thought it was too poor to be released and multiple people had to be hired to at least make the film half @-@ competent . The film was very poorly received , given its " shoestring budget " ; the DVD and Film Guide of 2005 wrote , " low @-@ budget mess stars Dolph Lundgren as a navy special operations commander trying to keep a deadly virus out of the hands of terrorists . This subpar effort sinks to the bottom of the ocean in a tidal wave of cliche . " During an interview on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in May 2008 , Gladiator director Ridley Scott said Lundgren had been considered for the part of undefeated fighter Tigris of Gaul in 2000 , but was eventually rejected because " as an actor , he just didn 't fit in with what we were trying to achieve " . 
