Ep. 118 - Undisputed

Walter Hill's Undisputed is a gritty boxing movie in which the big fight takes place in prison. There's potential in that concept, right? Wesley Snipes and Ving Rhames play the 2 main characters. Hey, that HAS to amount to something cool, doesn't it?   Well, this film could have and should have been vivid and dynamic, but instead it's a disjointed, unsatisfying, anti-Rocky. We couldn't even figure out who we were supposed to root for, mostly because one pugilist is a rapist and the other is a murderer. It doesn't help that neither of them has much of an arc, nor are most of the many (many) story threads tied up. Yet because the boxing scenes hit home and all the actors do the best they can with this shabby material, it's more that Hill's flick is empty than is actually a bad film. It's just a shame because Undisputed could have been something truly cool, even if Ving Rhames' camp would deny the whole thing ever even took place.   If you want to talk to us, we're reachable on Twitter (@moviefiend51 and @scoringatmovies) or via email ([e-mail]).