The only suspense comes from wondering just how loud the flesh-pounding, bone-crushing sound effects will get.
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08/23/02
Undisputed (2002)
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Reviews Counted:103
Fresh:50
Rotten:53
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: While not the deepest boxing movie out there, Undisputed is successful at hitting its aspiration of being nothing more than a genre picture.
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: UNDISPUTED tells the story of an undefeated world champion prize fighter (RHAMES) who is convicted of rape and sent to prison, where he must confront and ultimately fight the reigning prison boxing... [More]
Reviews for Undisputed
This is not the undisputed worst boxing movie ever, but it's certainly not a champion - the big loser is the audience.
08/23/02
Iceman-Hutchen is much more exciting, and much less expensive to watch, than Lewis-Tyson.
08/23/02
By its modest, straight-ahead standards, Undisputed scores a direct hit.
08/22/02
A stylish but steady, and ultimately very satisfying, piece of character-driven storytelling.
08/22/02
If you enjoy your films served to the brim with testosterone and/or love the idea of a fight to the finish, you might find something redeemable here. Otherwise, don't expect anything along the lines of Rocky, Raging Bull or even Ali.
08/22/02
A lean, mean, vastly entertaining fight movie.
08/22/02
Undisputed is undeniable fun, thanks to its rugged rock pile of attitude, bravado and fisticuffs.
08/22/02
Despite solid turns from Snipes and Rhames, the only thing undisputable about this film is its lack of excitement.
08/22/02
At times, the picture seems to have been edited with a blowtorch. But it gets the job done efficiently and swiftly.
08/22/02
Top CriticThis is a throwaway, junk-food movie whose rap soundtrack was better tended to than the film itself.
08/22/02
Walter Hill's Undisputed, a boxing/prison picture as smart as it is brawny, shows what seasoned Hollywood pros can still accomplish without pretensions and overwhelming special effects.
08/22/02
Top CriticUndisputed may be the best hip-hop prison boxing movie ever, though I'm hard-pressed to name another one.
08/22/02
Undisputed's an unqualified hit.
08/22/02
Top CriticWhile Undisputed isn't exactly a high, it is a gripping, tidy little movie that takes Mr. Hill higher than he's been in a while.
08/22/02
Stripped-down to a point where it doesn't resemble a movie so much as it does pure, chemical testosterone, "Undisputed" is a prison boxing drama that you wish had something more than prison and boxing on its mind.
08/22/02
Each punch seen through prison bars, the fights become not so much a struggle of man vs. man as Brother-Man vs. The Man.
08/22/02
A lean, surprisingly artful programmer, closer in spirit to something like Don Siegel's Riot in Cell Block 11 than to typical boxing fare.
08/22/02
Cuts right through the B.S. giving a big middle-fingered “shut up” to those who talk up what is nothing more than two guys beating the hell outta one another.
08/22/02
...the direction is as choppy as a high school karate demonstration.
08/22/02
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