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A great fight scene

May 21st, 2008 | Arts, Film | 3 Comments »

This is the climactic fight scene from cult classic Undefeatable. Before you watch it, this Wikipedia summary will help explain what’s going on:

Undefeatable is a 1994 martial arts movie starring Cynthia Rothrock, John Miller and Don Niam. The picture was a Hong Kong production, filmed in English on location in the United States. It was directed by Godfrey Ho, using the pseudonym Godfrey Hall. Undefeatable borrows several plot points from the Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra.

The film follows Kristi Jones (Rothrock) who, along with her gang, take part in Mafia-run street fights to earn money for her sister’s college education.

Meanwhile, an underground fighter by the name of “Stingray” is left by his wife and vows to find her. He begins seeing women in flowered dresses as his wife. He kidnaps them, rapes them, and gouges their eyes out before returning their bodies to the crime scene. Kristi’s sister becomes one of the victims, so Kristi tracks down Stingray with the help of police officer Nick DiMarco (Miller), who is falling in love with her, and her sister’s psychiatry tutor.

They soon track down Stingray, who has kidnapped the psychiatrist, and fight in a warehouse where he escapes. The psychiatrist is in the hospital and Stingray captures her. Kristi and the police officer chase him to a storage area where the three do battle, mostly in hand to hand combat.

Can’t-miss plot, right? Surefire blockbuster. How could they ever mess something like this up? I mean, it was based on Cobra, so it’s already got a great pedigree. Just color-by-numbers to box office glory, right?

Well, this is that final warehouse fight:

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3 Responses to “A great fight scene”

  1. OMG! That is a hilarious scene! My wife and I became kind of obsessed with Cynthia Rothrock after watching not just one, but BOTH of the “China O’Brien” movies a couple years back!

    If there were ever Oscar’s given out to best butt-kicking white chick in a martial arts movie, Rothrock would win them all. She rules! Thanks so much for the blog post and the super cool clip…now if I could just find “Undefeatable” at my local video store… :)

  2. When I worked in Baltimore, I knew the guy who wrote this script! Steve Harper was the host of our kids show and he told about how he was contacted (somehow) about scripting out the english portion of this script. They basically told him what to write and he put it together for them. He said that they they sent him a check, it cleared, and that was the last he ever heard from them. Couldn’t snag a copy of the final piece.

  3. Yeah. Films like this make you a little less critical of your own work as a result. But then you watch There Will Be Blood and it all evens out again.

    Still, I think films like this hammer home the point that there’s a lot of money out there for projects. And a lot of it is dumb money – people just wanting to finance a film for one reason or another. If only you could gather them all in a room…

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