Undisputed (2002)
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48% of critics liked it
(104 reviews) -
52% of users liked it
(8,850 ratings)
Director and screenwriter Walter Hill returns to one of his favorite themes -- desperate and violent men using force to escape from an unforgiving environment -- in this action drama set behind bars. Monroe Hutchen (Wesley Snipes) was once a promising heavyweight contender until he was convicted of… More Director and screenwriter Walter Hill returns to one of his favorite themes -- desperate and violent men using force to escape from an unforgiving environment -- in this action drama set behind bars. Monroe Hutchen (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" Chambers (Ving Rhames) enters Sweetwater after being convicted of rape, Hutchens finds the serious competitor in the same lockup for the first time, though Chambers scoffs at the jailhouse champ. After Hutchens challenges the arrogant Chambers to a bout, aging mafioso Emmanuel "Mendy" Ripstein (Peter Falk) swings a deal that will earn Chambers an early release from prison and pull in a million dollars in bets from guards and inmates if the two men will meet in the ring for a last-man-standing bout without referees. Undisputed also features Michael Rooker, Fisher Stevens, rapper Master P, and former Yo! MTV Raps host Ed Lover. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Walter Hill
- Written By
- Walter Hill, David Giler
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure
- In Theaters
- Aug 23, 2002 Wide
- Studio
- Miramax Films
Critic Reviews
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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Hill looks to be going through the motions, beginning with the pale script.
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Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Walter Hill's prison-boxing flick Undisputed could have been a great B, but it represents a failure of nerve.
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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
A shrewd and splendidly volatile B movie structured around a highly original gambit of suspense.
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Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
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 cliché.
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Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
I've got nobody to root for ... in a movie like this I want to root for one of the boxers in the ring.
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Cast
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Ving Rhames
as James "Iceman" Chambers
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Wesley Snipes
as Monroe Hutchens
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Peter Falk
as Emmanuel "Mendy" Ripstein
- Michael Rooker
- Jon Seda
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Wes Studi
as Mingo Pace
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Fisher Stevens
as Ratbag Dolan
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Dayton Callie
as Yank Lewis
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Amy Aquino
as Darlene Early
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Johnny Williams
as Al
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Joe D'Angerio
as Vinnie
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Nils Allen Stewart
as Vern Van Zandt
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Denis Arndt
as Warden Lipscom
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Rose Rollins
as Tawnee Rawlins
- Jim Lampley
- Master P
- George Christy
- Maureen O'Boyle
- Ed Lover
- James N. Toney