Undisputed

I gotta soft spot for this movie even though I know how it ends before the fight begins ......What can I say I like seeing the "Bully" get his butt kicked

My wife said it best, prison would be a lot better if people were just nice to each other.

Poor man's Shawshank Redemption, only better. A masterpiece. Great story starring Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames, and featuring Peter Faulk in his best role ever. Superb casting in secondary roles. Great scenes: Prisoners singing rap version of Star Spangled before the fight; Faulk's tirade/f-bombs soliloquy. Greatly underrated, for one reason, because many have never even heard of it. Dir. by Walter Hill. (Exp. 12-27-13)

I know I've seen this one, but it's so utterly forgettable that my ranking might be totally off.

The film's aesthetics are striking and, if anything, certainly set it apart, it conveys the tension between and around the two leads well, Snipes steals the show with his captivating performance (and so does Falk's incessant swearing to be fair), and the climax is up to scratch. It's also positively surprising that it dedicates time to explore Chambers's rape conviction, though the eventual ambiguity might justly raise some eyebrows (and Hill's self-professed intentions only make matters worse).

Thin, underdeveloped characters and a similarly afflicted script deliver a half-baked, sometimes senseless film that it's nigh impossible to care about.

After Supernova, it's easy to see why Hill returned to basics, but this poorly written prison-boxing film could be his worst film. There is no depth to these characters--which is a problem because they don't function well as archetypes--and the dialogue is rife with moronic macho bluster of the most tedious kind. This simple story about tough guys reaffirming their worth via displays of super strength is a tired and cliche ridden bore that's only saved from the scrapheap by the final fight.

The big fight at the end isn't even that good.

What is pretty cool is the pure concept of having two stupid guys preparing to destroy themselves in a cage constructed in a max security prison only to prove who's the unofficial champion -- the heavy dude that raped a girl and is now locked down or the slim guy that's been imprisoned for years and also never lost a fight. Hill sets the tone with a fast-paced hip-hop narrative --this is so early 00s --, but relies on too many black and white stuff to extract more drama from some portions.

Wesley Snipes was once a promising heavyweight contender until he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole at the Sweetwater maximum security prison in California. Now, Hutchen boxes behind bars, and he's become the champion of a loosely organized prison fighting circuit. When heavyweight champion James "Iceman"Ving Rhames enters after being convicted of rape, Hutchens finds the serious competitor in the same lockup for the first time, though Chambers scoffs at the jailhouse.

Not bad really. Snipes character traits will make you roll your eyes, but it's the problem of making a prisoner in a high security prison likeable.

This is one of the most effortless movies I've ever seen. The choreography for the fights were so ridiculously bad, the script is completely retarded, a blatant copy; everything about this is just so stupid.

Plot 14/20 Fiction 10/20 Casting/Acting 11/20 Worldbuilding 5/20 Entertainment 13/20

never heard FALK so many times in a minute

Who cares? Snipes' character is so not fleshed-out that I was surprised when I realized he was apparently the guy we were supposed to be rooting for. I mean, Rhames plays an unsympathetic thug here, but at least he plays it with conviction. And Peter Falk almost made me laugh. The big main event was silly because all movie boxing fights are silly, and the rest was just mediocre.

pfft

Luckily I saw undisputed 2 and 3 before this one or I probably wouldn't have seen them at all. Bad movie!

Could've been worse as far as prison movies go, but still not a lot going for it.

Not that greatest script, but it could've been better if the two main characters were better. Rhames does a bad combination of Mike Tyson and Clubber Lange. There are unbelievable moments that weaken the film, too.

"This 90-minute dud could pass for Mike Tyson's E! True Hollywood Story." - Ed Gonzalez

Part 1 is the best.

This boxing flick has absolutely nothing going for it until the main event happens in its bouting conclusion. Undisputed hasn't anyone to root for, not even its 'hero' Wesley Snipes - we literally learn next to nothing about him or relate to him at all. Much of the film goes to Ving Rhames, and neither of these characters are remotely interesting. The fight at the end leaves no one to root for even if it's well staged. This movie is lifeless until its final minutes, and by then we don't care.

The movie is predictable from the beginning.

Wesley Snipe only gets a few minutes screen time , and in wich he is one his character keeps very superficial. Boring script that concentrates on one fight , the other scene are just there to fill time , and obviosly they suck. End scene is filmed very poorly and is not surpising at all.

This is nothing but a bad copy of "Rocky". The dialoge is dull, the characters are sterotype, and it seems to move slower than "Unbreakable". And why does Peter Falk look like he's imitating Robert Deniro all the time? Some good boxing scenes is the only feature picking this movie up from tier 1.

dull

Middling boxing drama has a few simple pleasures and is boosted by great work from Ving Rhames. Wesley, unfortunately, is mailing it in. Excellent work with macho archetypes- director Walter Hill does this in his sleep.