The director and star of the most laughably under-researched WWII action pic in ages strikes again with “Prisoner of War,” a Scott Adkins martial arts star vehicle that puts a kickboxing RAF pilot on the Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines in time for the “Bataan Death March.”

The director of “3 Days in Malay” — an ahistorical atrocity like no other — serves up a timeline-botched prisoner of war tale with kamikaze-attacked convoys, Navajo code talkers, captured Japanese walkie talkies with the range of modern sat phones and Bugs Bunny physics involving gliders.

As our RAF pilot claims to have taken off from a “banana boat” to end up getting his CGI Spitfire (Maybe it was a Hurricane) shot down in April of ’42 over Luzon, and soldiers use then-new and little-used in America police dept. “10” codes (“10-4”) there’s no point in turning the endless anachronisms and “goofs” into a drinking game unless suicide by alcohol poisoning is your aim.

Nobody wants a Louis Mandylor movie (or a Scott Adkins one for that matter) to be the last sights and memories you have in life.

Adkins plays Wing Commander James Wright, also an SAS commando, he insists, who gets shot down, slaughters assorted oddly-uniformed Japanese soldiers, is taken prisoner and hears the phrase “Tomorrow, you DIE” the first of many many times.

We first meet Wright as he stalks into a Tokyo dojo in 1950 hunting for the Lt. Col. Ito (Peter Skinkoda) who tortured and murdered prisoners at the camp where he was held during the war. Wright beats the hell out of the entire dojo when Ito’s son (Kansuke Asano) sics the lot of them on him.

Flashbacks tell us of the crash, the other inmates (Michael Rene Walton, Michael Capon, et al) and assorted guards Wright dispatches whenever Lt. Col. Ito sadistically ordains a fight between his guards and his prisoners. It does little for Japanese morale when Wright and a few hulking Americans hold their own with the vaunted martial artists of Japan.

Beheadings are threatened and delivered, just not to Wright. Prisoners are summarily shot for any infraction. Wright beats their behinds and kills more than a few, and somehow gets away with it.

Plans to escape are discussed, a glider turns up in the islands years before they were used in that part of the world (the timeline is borderline non-existant). And the Japanese cast members seem a tad discouraged and dispirited by taking this gig. They must have seen “3 Days in Malay.”

At least Adkins handles the fights with skill if not a whole lot of originality.

The script is an incompetent mash-up of WWII and Vietnam War POW picture cliches. The direction is lax and uninspired, which explains how 75 minutes worth of plot, characters and action becomes a 112 minute movie.

And yet Mandylor has other pictures in the can as I type this. Go figure.

Rating: R, violence, torture scenes

Cast: Scott Adkins, Peter Shinkoda, Gabbi Garcia, Michael Rene Walton, Michael Capon, Masanori Mimoto and Kansuke Asano.

Credits: Directed by Louis Mandylor, scripted by Scott Adkins and Marc Clebanoff. A Well Go USA release

Running time: 1:52