NEW Undisputed (DVD)

This is fantastic boxing film. Wesley Snipes doesn't play the character he normaly plays. Yes, he plays an action hero, but for the first time in a movie...he is fairly quite and soft spoken. The best thing about this movie, is that it builds up the anticipation of the big fight at the end. It doesn't just show a story then thow an ending at you. Their is a lot of plot that is built up to give you a great fight at the end.

Ving Rhames was training for a bio-film called; "Nightrain", when it was postponed and he then took on this boxing film, as he had been preparing to play another fighter for the film I mentioned. Wesley Snipes is in amazing physical condition, and both actors were credible in the contrived steel ring they eventually fought in. The actual fight is something you will gain plenty of interrupted glimpses of, for not only is it edited in a music video rapid fire staccato style, the director also kept obscuring the fight by filming with the bars between the camera and the fighters. The fight did not appear to need such camouflage, but perhaps this method was necessary.

The DVD includes extended interviews with both Wesley Snipes and Ving Rhames, and these added some interest to a very average film. A moment worth noting for the ludicrousness of it was when they decided to isolate Snipe's character from Rhames who was pretty clearly based upon Mike Tyson. It was not enough to separate them within the prison; Wesley Snipe's character had to be welded in to his cell. Moments like this made any effort to be entertained difficult; as they require the viewer to accept the absurd not just suspend disbelief.