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Undisputed (2002)

August. 23,2002
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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.

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Jeanskynebu
2002/08/23

the audience applauded

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Humaira Grant
2002/08/24

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

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Tayyab Torres
2002/08/25

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

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Guillelmina
2002/08/26

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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Leofwine_draca
2002/08/27

A prison drama mixed with ROCKY is the basic premise of this unusual but entertaining little movie, brought to us by Walter Hill, a director with a track record of making "man's man" type films. It's as tough as you'd imagine, set within a men's prison inhabited by grizzled veterans (Wes Studi and a delightfully foul-mouthed Peter Falk), hard-ass guards (the underrated Michael Rooker) and various other familiar faces such as Jon Seda and Fisher Stevens.However, this is merely the backdrop. The thrust of the film lies within the world of boxing, and the story carefully pits two very different fighters against each other. An action film this isn't; it's all about the gradual build-up to a single bout, a win-all/lose-all fight to the finish that means the world for both of the participants. Of the pair, Ving Rhames bags the larger-than-life character, a man who turns out to be little more than a glorified thug; Wesley Snipes gets to be solemn and proud, a real departure from his usual tough guy routines, and he makes the film. I won't spoil the outcome, needless to say it pays off nicely.

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wes-connors
2002/08/28

Convicted of rape, world heavyweight boxing champion Ving Rhames (as George "Iceman" Chambers) is stripped of his title and sent to prison. There, he meets disgruntled murderer Wesley Snipes (as Monroe Hutchen), the jailhouse champ for ten years. Old and foul-mouthed Peter Falk (as Mendy Ripstein) promotes a fight between the two boxers. The co-stars eventually have a big fight. The interjected scenes of Mr. Rhames' victim further suggest the film was inspired by Mike Tyson. Rhames says his woman liked rough sex and enjoyed the experience. Flashbacks show Mr. Snipes' victim was enjoying the company of another man.*** Undisputed (5/31/02) Walter Hill ~ Ving Rhames, Wesley Snipes, Peter Falk, Jon Seda

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translator
2002/08/29

where do you begin? first off, there are so many characters that after a while you just stop giving a damn. they just keep popping up. when they first appear on screen, we get a freeze-frame with their name, crime, etc. in the best of guy ritchie fashion. such "meta-cinematic" devices are totally out of place here, and detract from the movie's overall tone and seriousness.which brings me to the second point: with so many characters, there's an overabundance of dialog. i mean, the movie's supposed to be a boxing/prison movie, yet it's got more lines than "pride and prejudice"! i guess they needed to "spice up" the clichéd and simple, yet always effective underdog-becomes-champ plot. and spice it up they do - with more paper-cut characters and trite, go-nowhere dialog.however, the movie's biggest problem is that it spends infinitely more time depicting the bad guy, than it does our hero wesley. he's got at least 5 times as much screen-time. AT LEAST. the bad guy's obviously directly inspired by tyson, and the movie's further "spiced up" by flashback interviews with the victim and himself. please. just let them beat the sh*t out of each other.i haven't watched the movie until the end, i got too bored. even the fights, while excellently choreographed, seem to require annoying commentary by an inmate in order to be more interesting. if your depiction of boxing ain't interesting enough in and off itself, then you've got a problem, buddy.like i said, i haven't seen the end, but i guess it's not that hard to predict. the good guy wins. which would be okay, if we got a chance to know him.

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Boloxxxi
2002/08/30

This movie was a pleasant surprise.I say this because like some of you, I sometimes like to see what my fellow IMDb reviewers have to say about a movie before I check it out. Most of the reviews I saw for Undisputed seemed middling and that put me off for a good while. Recently I decided- "What the hey! I'll check it out anyway!" Am I glad I did because I enjoyed it immensely. (Just goes to show that IMDb reviewers are not infallible, yours truly included.) This was a kind of David and Goliath movie behind bars: This big arrogant heavyweight champion gets sent to prison for rape (Sound familiar?). In prison, he has no respect for anyone and let's them know it. This includes the prison champion. Toward the end of the movie they eventually square off as we know they would (and should).Folks, this movie was "tight". By that I mean there was never any slack in my interest even though there were only a few skirmishes until the big finale. Interestingly, Wesley Snipes's character was surprisingly restrained (unusual, I think) and did not seem that visible. This worked very well for him and the movie in general. We all know he plays cocky very well but this time that role and the spotlight went to Ving Rhames as the heavyweight sent to the slammer for rape. No doubt about it, Ving was intimidating. Like a horror movie, he made me cringe a couple of times and I was safely in my house! Everything worked for me; even the edgy, hardcore rap music in the background of some of the scenes (I'm generally not a big fan of rap music folks, so that's saying something!). Real television news and sports personalities were used which gave credibility to an incredible situation; by the start of the big fight, criminals -from both inside and out- were running the prison. I had to laugh. This is the fun of movies: entertaining you and making you believe in the improbable. The fight commentator was great. I don't know if he was an actor playing one or if he really was one. That's how good he was. The big fight was filmed expertly showing the action from inside, outside, and above the arena (a large cage). The camera person did not miss a beat. The action itself was intelligently choreographed (reminded me a bit of the last Rocky movie) so that it was believable and you couldn't tell what was going to happen. I'll let you in on a secret: this is one of the best and most realistic movie-boxing matches ever put on film! You almost believe that the fight-coordinator(s) took it all from a real boxing match. -And who knows? -Like the idea for Ving's character, maybe they did. I sure as hell felt like I was at one despite the prison setting. Whatever you might think of the rest of the movie, the boxing match at the end makes it all worth it and is not to be missed!!! Love, Boloxxxi.

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