Undisputed: Critic Reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

75

A shrewd and splendidly volatile B movie structured around a highly original gambit of suspense.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

50

This is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in September.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

Even by its own please-the-mob standards, this movie is lacking.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

So gritty it'll get under your fingernails.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Michael Atkinson Village Voice (Top Critic)

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 cliche.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

75

A muscular, no-nonsense genre pic.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Robert Koehler Variety (Top Critic)

After a stretch of questionable projects like Last Man Standing and Supernova, Hill has rebounded with a boxing pic so purely pugilistic that nothing impinges on the main event.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

Hill looks to be going through the motions, beginning with the pale script.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com (Top Critic)

Walter Hill's prison-boxing flick Undisputed could have been a great B, but it represents a failure of nerve.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

An average B-movie with no aspirations to be anything more.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

40

A forgettable prison boxing movie.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

[A] rock-hard, streamlined "B" movie.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Chuck O'Leary FulvueDrive-in.com

70

A solid, efficient B movie that holds the screen masterfully for an all-too-brief 90 minutes.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

50

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.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Mark Collette Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

25

We have no idea where these characters have been, so we don't care where they're going.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com

40

Too reliant on its already-dated "topicality" and listlessly coasting on a laundry list of prisonyard plot points.
Full Review » 8 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

75

...a B picture in an era that doesn't really allow for them.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena

60

A historia se desenvolve de forma curiosa, mas a luta final deixa a desejar.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Nick Rogers State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)

50

In a better movie, we wouldn't feel compelled to choose which fighter to root for.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Bryan Reesman Citysearch

40

"Undisputed" could have been compelling, but it ultimately plays out as a standard prison action movie.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Ron Bishow Katrillion.com

At 90 minutes this movie is short, but it feels much longer.
Full Review » 9 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

50

Undisputed barely rises above the ordinary, but it does combine action, prisons, and boxing, boasts a good cast, and throws in some undisguised sociopolitical commentary.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Prairie Miller Long Island Press

Can best be described as Animal House with bars, a fantasy musical maximum security joint.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Josef Braun Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Writer/director Walter Hill is in his hypermasculine element here, once again able to inject some real vitality and even art into a pulpy concept that, in many other hands would be completely forgettable.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Dan Fienberg L.A. Weekly

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.
Full Review » 10 years ago