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Undisputed

also known as “Bo'ysunmas,” “Champion,” “Contraataque,” “Dead Lock,” “Iceman,” “Invicto,” “Invincible,” “La Gran Pelea,” “Nenugaletas,” See all »
MPA Rating: R-Rating for strong language.
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Primary Audience: Adults
Genre: Action Crime Drama
Length: 1 hr. 36 min.
Year of Release: 2002
USA Release: August 23, 2002
Featuring
Ving Rhames
Wesley Snipes
Peter Falk
Fisher Stevens
Jon Seda
Wes Studi
Ed Lover
Director
Walter Hill
Producer
Walter Hill, David Giler, Brad Krevoy, Andrew Sugerman
Distributor

Heavyweight boxing champion George 'The Iceman' Chambers is convicted of rape and sentenced to six to eight years at Sweetwater, a new prison in the Mojave desert. The high-security facility is populated by hardened criminals. Unaware of the prison's ways and its unique hierarchy, the pompous and bratty Chambers tries to impress upon the inmates his status as a champion boxer.

The prison camp has a competition on which a betting syndicate thrives. Criminals fight in boxing matches with very lax rules, thus making it a very addictive and lucrative venture for the syndicate. The most popular boxer behind bars is Sweetwater's soft-spoken, humble undefeated Monroe “Undisputed” Hutchen, who ends up in solitary confinement after Chambers picks a fight with him in the mess hall. Flashbacks to Hutchen's own boxing career shows that he had been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for beating to death a man who was sleeping with his girlfriend.

Sensing the brewing hatred for the heavyweight champion, an incarcerated mob boss named Ripstein senses potential in a match between Hutchen and Chambers. Ripstein, a lifelong boxing fan, proposes a match and Warden Lipscomb is persuaded to look the other way.

As all the arrangements are finally organized, an eagerly awaited fight night arrives. Chambers knocks down Hutchen twice (and with the London Prize Ring Rules, each knockdown counts as the end of a round, as the boxer is given only 60 seconds to get up). In the third round, Hutchen charges back and knocks Chambers down for the first time in his career, sending the crowd of prisoners into a frenzy. Finally, in the fourth round Hutchen officially KO's Chambers to become the undisputed champion.

Ripstein's Mexican assistant reveals; in a narrator voice, that Ripstein died three weeks after the fight, but in his will, he left him $2 million. Chambers was released on parole, and Hutchen received the money for his sister, who was experiencing hardship.

It is also revealed that Chambers and his manager denied that the fight with Hutchen ever occurred, and that it was all a rumor. Months later, Chambers wins back the Heavyweight Championship of the World. The whole cell block watches the televised fight, and laugh and cheer Monroe's name after hearing Chambers being crowned the “undisputed” heavyweight champion of the world.

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Comments from young people
Neutral—I liked this film from a boxing and prison type area. It was filmed very realistically and the camera views really got you into the movie that way. From a christian view, this movie isn’t all that good. There is plenty of swearing, but what can expect when the whole movie is set in a prison, not saying that that is an excuse to use offensive language. There is one flashback that has brief nudity (very brief and scene shot dark, can barely see it) and one scene is in a locker room and has some male rear nudity. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone under my age, and even my age is pushin’ it, I probably shouldn’t have seen it.
My Ratings: [Average / 4]
Brian, age 15

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