The Ultimate Weapon is a 1998 Canadian action film directed by Jon Cassar, starring Hulk Hogan, Daniel Pilon, Carl Marotte and Cynthia Preston.

Coming from the producer of the similar Steele Justice, it is considered Hogan's only true foray into the type of R-rated action vehicles that many of his contemporaries essayed during the 1980s and 1990s.

[3] Ben "Hardball" Cutter, a traumatized former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces turned private consultant to the National Security Council, is called back into action by his former superior "Top" Drummond.

Despite his initial reluctance, he is seconded in his assignment by Vince Dean, codename "Cobra", the unassuming son of his former partner, whom he lost on the battlefield.

After hearing that Roarke intends to go after her, Drummond has a change of heart and tries to stop him, but he is gravely wounded by a gunshot and abandoned to a slow death.

Once there, she is isolated from her friend, and taken to a room where McBride attempts to force himself upon her, expecting that Mary Kate's defilement will lure Cutter out of hiding.

John C. Strong was previously slated to helm The Overlords, another action film set in a steel town that would have paired Hogan with Gary Busey and fellow wrestler Roddy Piper.

[4][5] Despite it being a Canadian production, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter reported that Hogan was in Los Angeles to work on the film at the end of June 1996.

As with Assault on Devil's Island, the wrestler was given a new hairstyle, this time a brush cut, as his natural balding look was apparently deemed unfit for an action hero.

[11] An early poster credits Les Films St-Paul, a fledgling company from Quebec producer Jean-Marc Félio, as another partner in the production.

[1][21] Longtime Hogan acolyte and fellow wrestler Brutus Beefcake (under his real name Edward Leslie) has a brief role as a thug during a strip club scene.

[22] This timeframe is supported by a media appearance by Hogan, Pilon and Marotte on TVA on August 28, to promote the film which they "just finished".

[28] In the United States, the film premiered on VHS and DVD on July 4, 2000, via Lionsgate's Avalanche Home Video sublabel.

[32] The Ultimate Weapon has been reissued on Blu-ray in German speaking territories by Fokus Media, in partnership with the video arm of music label NSM Records.

[34] VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever, a publication edited by film archivist Jim Craddock for academic publisher Thomson Gale, rated it a two on a scale of zero to four.