With flashbulb editing as cover for the absence of narrative continuity, Undisputed is nearly incoherent, an excuse to get to the closing bout ... by which time it's impossible to care who wins.
Undisputed
Two Enemies ... The Mob ... The Ultimate Showdown.
2002 · 1h 36m · R
Action, Crime, Drama
Directed by
Walter Hill
Overview
Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. When these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.
Director and cast
- Walter Hill Director
- Wesley Snipes as Monroe Hutchen
- Ving Rhames as George 'Iceman' Chambers
- Peter Falk as Mendy Ripstein
- Michael Rooker as A.J. Mercker
- Jon Seda as Jesus 'Chuy' Campos
- Ken Medlock as Guard 1
- Wes Studi as Mingo Pace
- Fisher Stevens as James 'Ratbag' Kroycek
- Dayton Callie as Yank Lewis
- Amy Aquino as Darlene Early
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Hill looks to be going through the motions, beginning with the pale script.
Walter Hill's prison-boxing flick Undisputed could have been a great B, but it represents a failure of nerve.
A shrewd and splendidly volatile B movie structured around a highly original gambit of suspense.
If Hill isn't quite his generation's Don Siegel (or Robert Aldrich), it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair; it's all bluster and cliche.
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