Scott Adkins. Teodora Duhovnikova. Alon Aboutboul. Julian Vergov. Brahim Achabbakhe. Paul Chahidi. Petio Petkov.

Undisputed II: Last Man Standing is a 2006 American direct-to-videomartial arts film directed by Isaac Florentine and starring Michael Jai White, Scott Adkins, Eli Danker and Ben Cross. It is the sequel to the 2002 boxing filmUndisputed. White portrays ex-boxer George 'Iceman' Chambers, a role originally played by Ving Rhames in the first film. It was followed by two sequels: Undisputed III: Redemption (2010) and Boyka: Undisputed (2016), which continue the story of Russian prison fighter Yuri Boyka, played by Adkins.

Plot[edit]

Some years after fighting Monroe 'Undisputed' Hutchens in prison, former boxing champion George 'Iceman' Chambers visits the Russian Federation for a series of boxing matches, where he is subsequently framed for possession of cocaine and once again sent to prison. There, he discovers a series of illegalmixed martial arts matches dominated by inmate Yuri Boyka. The prison officials arrange these fights and place large side-bets to make a personal profit, often at the expense of the fighters. Chambers shares a cell with Steven Parker, a British junkie.

Mob boss Gaga and Warden Markov tell Chambers that if he fights Boyka, he will likely get an expedited appeal and early release. Chambers initially refuses, but after spending time in demeaning physical labor in the prison's sewer system and experiencing firsthand the brutality of the guards, he reluctantly agrees. He is rescued from both forms of humiliation by an inmate named Crot, who uses a wheelchair. Ringtone nokia 3315 download pc. Both fighters train hard for the match, though Chambers still relies on his boxing background while Boyka prepares a series of deadly kicks, throws, and grappling combinations designed to humiliate his opponent in the ring. Prior to the fight however, Boyka's gang force Steven, who is acting as Chambers' cornerman, to spike his water with a light sedative during the fight.

During the fight, Chambers is somewhat taken by surprise at the flurry and variety of Boyka's attacks, but manages to hold his own through the first round by keeping his distance, staying calm, and dealing out painful punching combinations whenever possible. At the end of the first round, Chambers takes a few sips of the spiked water, causing him to lose on the second round when he loses consciousness and falls to Boyka's flying kick. Following the match, Steven hangs himself out of guilt. Later, Chambers confronts Boyka over the sedative incident; after Boyka learns that his gang spiked Chambers' water behind his back, Chambers demands a rematch to ensure his release. Chambers receives training in mixed martial arts from Crot, who was a former soldier and the one who trained Boyka in his fighting style.

Once the rematch begins, it is apparent to all the viewers that the combatants are evenly matched and Chambers is more impressive in his style. The fight is long and intense, with flurries of combinations, grapples, and throws traded between the two. Eventually, Chambers realizes that Boyka will not lose consciousness, will not submit, and will likely knock him out if the fight goes on too long. Chambers alters his strategy and manages to get Boyka in a joint lock and ends the fight by breaking Boyka's leg, proving that he is the undisputed new champion of the prison. Shortly thereafter, Chambers is released from prison and uses his winnings to buy Crot's freedom as well. In a final scene, he wheels Crot to a train station to meet with his estranged niece in a happy reunion. Crot thanks Chambers for giving him the remainder of the winnings to start his life again, while Chambers expresses his gratitude for the help and training. Crot then meets with his long lost niece and the two embrace.

Cast[edit]

• Michael Jai White as George 'Iceman' Chambers
• Scott Adkins as Yuri Boyka
• Eli Danker as Crot/Nikolai
• Ben Cross as Steven Parker
• Mark Ivanir as Gaga
• Ken Lerner as Phil Gold
• Daisy Lang as Svetlana
• Silvio Simac as Arkady Davic
• Ivaylo Geraskov as Alexi
• Valentin Ganev as Warden Markov
• Atanas Srebrev as Dmitri
• Michail Elanov as Sergei
• Velizar Binev as Kiril

Music[edit]

Soundtracks[edit]

1. 'The Eyewitness of the World Had To See' Performed by Male Choir of Valaam Conducted by Igor Ushakov Courtesy of 5 Alarm Music.
2. 'Mi Smo Za Lovu' (We In The Money) Written by Dekembe Tutu Poku and Nathaniel Dawkins Translated, adapted and performed by Aleksandar Sasha Panich Published by Engine Co 35/Source in Sync Music (ASCAP) courtesy of 5 Alarm Music.
3. 'Runnin' Written by Tom Erba and Nathaniel Dawkins Performed by Nathaniel Dawkins Published by Engine Co 30/Sync Source Music (BMI) Engine Co 35/Source in Sync Music (ASCAP) Courtesy of 5 Alarm Music.
4. 'Cocktail Lullaby' Written and Performed by Stephen Edwards Published by Engine Co 35/Source in Sync Music (ASCAP) Courtesy of 5 Alarm Music.
5. 'Drug Dealer' Written by Mike Mutantoff Performed by Mike Mutantoff and the Killektive Published by Killective records (ASCAP) Courtesy of NOMA Music.
6. 'Krush You' Written by Tom Erba Published by Engine Co 30/Sync Source Music (BMI) Courtesy of 5 Alarm Music.
7. 'Till I Die' Written by Tom Erba and Nathaniel Dawkins Performed by Nathaniel Dawkins Published by Engine Co 30/Sync Source Music (BMI) Engine Co 35/Source in Sync Music (ASCAP) Courtesy of 5 Alarm Music.
8. 'Adrenaline Junkie' Written by Dalibor Andonov (as Dalibor Andonov Gru) Performed by Gru Published by SOKOJ (BMI) Courtesy of Centroscena.
9. 'Bring It On' Written by Tom Erba and Nathaniel Dawkins Performed by Nathaniel Dawkins Published by Engine Co 30/Sync Source Music (BMI) Engine Co 35/Source in Sync Music (ASCAP) Courtesy of 5 Alarm Music.

Release[edit]

Critical response[edit]

Mark Pollard of Kung Fu Cinema gave Undisputed II: Last Man Standing four out of five stars, calling it 'the first great martial arts movie of 2007 and Isaac Florentine’s best to date.'^[1]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abPollard, Mark. 'Review: Undisputed II: Last Man Standing'. Kung Fu Cinema. Archived from the original on 2014-05-27. Retrieved 2014-05-26.

External links[edit]

• Undisputed II: Last Man Standing on IMDb
• Undisputed II: Last Man Standing at AllMovie
• Undisputed II: Last Man Standing at Rotten Tomatoes

Undisputed is a 2002 American action sports film written, produced and directed by Walter Hill and starring Wesley Snipes and Ving Rhames. It was released in the United States on August 23, 2002.

The film performed poorly at the box-office and received mixed reviews from critics; nevertheless it later found success in the home video market and began a film saga with a direct-to-videosequel without any of the original cast members.

Plot[edit]

Undisputed heavyweightboxing champion George 'Iceman' Chambers (Rhames) is convicted of rape and sentenced to a new prison in the desert, called Sweetwater. 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, within its own walls, has a riveting 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 undefeated Monroe Hutchens (Snipes), who ends up in solitary confinement after Chambers picks a fight with him in the mess hall.

Sensing the brewing hatred for the heavyweight champion, an incarcerated mob boss named Ripstein (Falk) senses potential in a match between the modest Hutchens and the egomaniacal Chambers. Ripstein, a lifelong boxing fan, proposes a match and the warden (Arndt) is persuaded to look the other way.

As all the arrangements are finally organized, an eagerly awaited fight night arrives. All hell breaks loose with the haughty professional champ going all out against the unputdownable prison warrior. Chambers knocks down Hutchens 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, Hutchens 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 Hutchens officially KO's Chambers to become the undisputed champion.

Ripstein's Mexican assistant reveals in a voice over that Ripstein died three weeks after the fight, but in his will, he left him $2,000,000. Chambers was released on parole, and Hutchens received the money for his sister, who was experiencing hardship on the outside.

It is also revealed that Chambers and his manager denied that the fight with Hutchens 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.

Cast[edit]

• Wesley Snipes as Monroe 'Undisputed' Hutchens
• Ving Rhames as George 'Iceman' Chambers
• Peter Falk as Mendy Ripstein
• Michael Rooker as A.J. Mercker
• Jon Seda as Jesus 'Chuy' Campos
• Wes Studi as Mingo Pace
• Fisher Stevens as Ratbag Dolan
• Master P as Gat Boyz Rapper 1
• Silkk the Shocker as Gat Boyz Rapper 2
• C-Murder as Gat Boyz Rapper 3
• Ed Lover as Marvin Bonds
• Dayton Callie as Yank Lewis
• Dennis Arndt as the Warden
• Bruce A. Young as Charles Soward

Production[edit]

Development and writing[edit]

The film was based on an original script by Walter Hill and David Giler. Hill had just come off the science fiction film Supernova on which he had been recut by Francis Ford Coppola among others. 'One, it was embarrassing and, two, it made me think about quitting,' said Hill. 'While Coppola's intentions were honorable, I think he made a bad situation worse. I didn't do anything for a year. I was fortunate enough that I could buy my children a hot lunch. Then, I decided I wanted to work again.'^[4]

Hill had always wanted to make a boxing film, being a fan of the sport since he was young. 'Boxing is easy to indict,' says Hill. 'There are a lot of terrible things about boxing. However, that's only one side of the coin. The other side is that boxing has a power and a beauty and a drama and fascination that makes it a very compelling sport.'^[4]

Hill and Giler were having lunch one day and discussed Mike Tyson, who was sentenced to prison for rape in 1992. Giler said they thought 'it's amazing how no studio has made a film out of this basic situation of the heavyweight champion of the world going to prison, the toughest environment in the world,' said Giler.^[4] Hill went and wrote some paragraphs about the idea then he and Giler wrote a full script.^[5]

However Hill says while the Tyson case was the departure point, 'There are a number of prize fighters who have been in trouble with the law. Our story looks at how a tough guy and celebrity would handle life in prison. The more we wrote, the more we wrote away from the Tyson story.'^[6] Hill says he was really interested in what happened when 'a heavyweight champion goes to the toughest environment possible in American culture, the American prison system.'^[7]

'What we tried to show is how, under odd circumstances, a convicted murderer and a convicted rapist are capable of a moment of grace,' said Hill. 'They're both heroic.'^[4]

The film refuses to say if the champion boxer was actually guilty. 'It is absolutely ambiguous in this movie, ambiguous in the sense that it is very clear that he believes himself to be innocent. It is also absolutely clear that the woman involved believes herself to have been abused and raped.. If you want to know what I suspect, I suspect they're both right. It has to do with different terms, different values and different understanding of the basic compact when men and women go to bed together.'^[4]

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Casting[edit]

Hill said the film needed to be cast with black actors to have 'serious credibility,'^[8] and that he 'was determined not to have a movie where it looked like the actors couldn't box.'^[7] He took the treatment to Wesley Snipes who was interested in the story even before the script had been written. 'I told him it was conceivable that he could play either [lead] role, but what will not change is the fight and who wins in the end,' Hill said.^[8]

Hill then sent the script to Ving Rhames, who called back the next day, saying he wanted to play the Ice Man; Snipes was happy to play the other role.^[8] Rhames was in peak physical condition having been preparing for two years to star in a film about Sonny Liston, Night Train, that ultimately was never made.^[9] He said that Undisputed was 'not Rocky.. It's not clear-cut who you're supposed to root for.'^[6] He had worked together with Snipes on Broadway earlier, the last time in 1986 in The Boys of Winter.

It was a battle to get the film financed with two black stars, particularly as the film need to appeal to international audiences. 'There was a lot of pressure to change one of the characters to be white,' Giler said, 'but we thought it would be unrealistic.. We haven't seen a white fighter of merit since Rocky Marciano.'^[5] Hill said that 'heavyweight boxing within the past 50 years has been the purview of black men with a couple of tiny exceptions. This is a movie about boxing so we wanted to get it right. I think that the idea of the heavyweight champion of the world not being a black man would seem extraordinary. But if you did cast a black man as the heavyweight champion and then out him into a prison where the prison champion is white guy - well, what are we talking about?'^[5] There was also pressure to make the film less 'tough'.^[5]

Snipes recalled, 'The film was on. It was off. The money came. The money fell out. Every day, it was a wonder we were making this movie. Then, after we made the film, nobody knew whether it was ever going to come out.'^[5] He prepared for the role by training with Emanuel Steward, who had trained 29 world champions, including Tommy Hearns and Lennox Lewis. '[My character] was supposed to be the best,' Snipes said, 'so if I've got to look like the best, and live up to this character, I've got to get the best and work with the best.'^[7] Rhames was already in peak condition due to preparing for the aborted Liston film; the film's fight choreographer Cole McKay took over training of Rhames once filming began.

Filming[edit]

Undisputed was going to be filmed in a closed-down prison in Jean, Nevada. However, according to Jeanne Corcoran, the Nevada Film Office's production manager, the prison 'didn't have the right look. It has a great fence, a good tower, but the interiors tend to be more dormitory-like.'^[9] Instead it was decided to shoot the film in an unopened wing of the medium-security High Desert State Prison in Indian Springs, Nevada.^[9]

Shooting took place in January and February 2001. The film was shot over 39 days with finance raised from a number of American and European companies.^[1]

During the final fight, Snipes weighed only 178 pounds while Rhames was around 220 pounds. To mask the disparity, fight choreographer Cole McKay had Snipes fight upright and Rhames hunch forward in a crouching stance. For the final fight, Snipes said he and McKay would 'choreograph six or seven movements and then we'd improvise. We improvised the tail-end of each round, and that gave a certain amount of spontaneity and reality to it.'^[7]

Neither actor used a body double, and all of the body shots are real. 'Everybody on the set was wanting to see, 'Man who's going to win the fight?' ' Steward recalls. 'There were no 'John Wayne punches' in this movie at all. It was the closest that I have ever saw to real fightin'. I was mad because we didn't have [someone] to knock out for real.'^[7]

Hill later said, 'Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.'^[8]

Post-production[edit]

Distribution rights were purchased by Miramax Pictures for a reported $4.5 million.^[10] There were press reports that Miramax head Harvey Weinstein wanted additional scenes reshot which made Wesley Snipes more sympathetic, but that Snipes refused to do them.^[11]

Music[edit]

Soundtrack[edit]

A soundtrack containing hip hop music was released on March 5, 2002 by Universal Records. It peaked at #101 on the Billboard 200 and #41 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

Release[edit]

Critical response[edit]

The film received mixed reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 48% based on reviews from 104 critics. The site's consensus is: 'While not the deepest boxing movie out there, Undisputed is successful at hitting its aspiration of being nothing more than a genre picture.'^[12]

Hill said he was 'very happy about' the film. 'I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie. Heck, we did it in 39 days, it cost $20 million, which is very cheap for Hollywood standards, and tells a good story. I guess it's the literary equivalent of a short story.. With all the action in it and the tough guy aspects, it's going to appeal mainly to a young male audience. But, also the nostalgia of the sport might appeal to older males. Based on some of the reviews I've read already, the women don't seem to be enjoying it as much. But you hope for the best.'

The film debuted at number 8 at the box office making $4.7 million in its first week.^[10]

Sequels[edit]

The film received three direct-to-videosequels. The first was Undisputed II: Last Man Standing, which was released in 2006. A second sequel, Undisputed III: Redemption, was released in 2010, and follows Undisputed II's Yuri Boyka as the main character. A third sequel, again focusing on the latter character, Boyka: Undisputed, was released in 2017.

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abKehr, Dave (23 August 2002). 'AT THE MOVIES: A Terrible Beauty'. New York Times. p. E8.
2. ^ ^abhttps://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=undisputed.htm
3. ^Box office figures for Walter Hill films in France at Box Office Story
4. ^ ^abcdeLovell, Glenn (26 Aug 2002). ''Undisputed' director Walter Hill still is king of the ring'. Knight Ridder Tribune News Service. p. 1.
5. ^ ^abcdePortman, Jamie (28 Aug 2002). 'It was a battle to get Undisputed..'. CanWest News. p. 1.
6. ^ ^abDawson, Angela (18 Aug 2002). 'AN ACTOR BOXES BEHIND BARS IN `UNDISPUTED''. Boston Globe. p. L.12.
7. ^ ^abcdeHolmes, Emory (21 Aug 2002). 'Cornerman; Emanual Steward, trainer of 29 world champions, prepares Wesley Snipes to fight in 'Undisputed.''. Los Angeles Times. p. F.1.
8. ^ ^abcdClint Morris, 'Undisputed: Interview with Walter Hill', Webwombat accessed 25 May 2014
9. ^ ^abcCling, Carol (22 Jan 2001). ''Undisputed' to battle with Snipes, Rhames'. Las Vegas Review - Journal. p. 5E.
10. ^ ^abFuson, Brian (26 August 2002). ''Signs' crops up as leader of field'. Hollywood Reporter. p. 1.
11. ^'SNIPES MAY SUFFER RESHOOTING PAINS'. New York Daily News. 19 Feb 2002. p. 24.
12. ^'Undisputed (2002)'. Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster.

External links[edit]

• Undisputed on IMDb
• Undisputed at AllMovie
• Undisputed at Box Office Mojo