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Undisputed
Monroe Hutchen 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 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. When heavyweight champion James 'Iceman' Chambers lands in prison, the resident gangster arranges a boxing match with the reigning prison champ.
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May 26, 2006
[A] rock-hard, streamlined "B" movie.September 26, 2002
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.August 27, 2002
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.March 05, 2006
A solid, efficient B movie that holds the screen masterfully for an all-too-brief 90 minutes.December 29, 2010
A forgettable prison boxing movie.April 03, 2017
Drawing on torn-from-the-headlines events and B-movie history, Hill and his co-writer, David Giler, fill out their premise with hardboiled irony and gusto.September 06, 2002
Hill looks to be going through the motions, beginning with the pale script.April 29, 2009
It's dead in the water before the climax.September 20, 2004
We have no idea where these characters have been, so we don't care where they're going.August 29, 2002
A shrewd and splendidly volatile B movie structured around a highly original gambit of suspense.January 07, 2005
As with any boxing movie or fight card, the main event doesn't come until the very end, and like too many pay-per-view packages the undercard is underwhelming.August 30, 2002
Walter Hill's prison-boxing flick Undisputed could have been a great B, but it represents a failure of nerve.