Undefeatable (1993)

This movie could have been one of Cynthia Rothrock best movie if it had better fight scenes,more complex theme and a good partner for Cynthia like Jeff Wincott or Richard Norton.Don Niam made an Oscar performance so i don't understand why he didn't have a good career as an actor.Cynthia Rothrock is passable, she could have been great if the director have been hired an very good martial arts choreographer for this movie.I was a Lil bit disappointed by Donna Jason because i wanted her to have a bigger part in this movie.All in all it was an entertaining movie with a very big performance of Don Niam who saved this movie from obscurity.I've seen the Chinese version of this movie called BLOODY MARY KILLER but it wasn't better than UNDEFEATABLE.It has though a great beginning with Cynthia Rothrock demonstration with weapon and has a short fight between Cynthia and Robin Shou at the middle of the movie.A friend of mine gave me a version of the movie that is like UNDEFEATABLE but has that 2 cuts from BLOODY MARY KILLER thrown in making it a better movie than UNDEFEATABLE.That version of the movie is the best and deserve a 6.5/10 in my opinion.However the movie have a limited cult film status but have gained notoriety in the late years

After some craptastic masterpieces such as Ninja Thunderbolt, Ninja Terminator, Robo Vampire and other movies, Godfrey Ho goes to America and make a movie that is definitely one of the best collaborations between east and west.The fights are pretty well choreographed and the plot is pretty cool, the story makes more sense and you can actually follow the story without getting and headache, as a fan of Godfrey Ho it was a shock that there wasn't a single use of the "cut and paste technique" (he usually recycled footage of unreleased Asian movies).It definitely feels like an American action movie and Don Niam plays one of the most memorable martial arts movie villain in history, too bad that he didn't made a memorable movie like this.You must be asking to yourself "I am a newbie in all these Godfrey Ho movies, is this a good movie to get introduced to Godfrey Ho ?" well, maybe, this is the less trashy Godfrey Ho movie, personally, if you want to see a real Godfrey Ho movie try: Ninja Thunderbolt or Ninja Terminator.With all these useless sequels, why we can't get Undefeatable 2: The Resurrection of Stingray ?

By conventional standards Undefeatable is a terrible film. But thankfully I don't judge movies by conventional standards. Hence, I declare Undefeatable a quite brilliantly entertaining action flick.The setting is a city somewhere in America where every inhabitant is an expert in kung fu. This city is being terrorized by a sociopath who is killing women who resemble his recently departed wife. The sister of one of his victims teams up with a cop who is investigating the killings and together they go in pursuit of the madman.This is a Cynthia Rothrock movie and she plays the sibling street fighter. She is certainly the most accomplished actress in the film which should give you some indication of the standard of thespian talent on display here. The acting is universally and quite magnificently consistently atrocious. Are these people really technically actors? It's hard to believe they are but I have a great deal of admiration for their collective rubbishness, as it is one of the many things that serve this trashy film so well. Cynthia's two male co-stars, the cop John Miller and psychopath Don Niam are a bad movie lovers dream duo. They deliver their lines hilariously throughout. Niam in particular has to be given special mention. He does put in a truly unforgettable performance as the villain. His wild-eyed staring and cheesy posturing are very, very funny; he is the most over-the-top man in the world. And then there is his heroically ridiculous permed mullet. Never since Kevin Dillon sported a barnet more terrifying than the title alien in the remake of The Blob have I seen a haircut so astounding. At one point Niam even sprays two red dye lines into it; this of course only serves to highlight the ludicrous nature of this headage even more. Although John Miller and Cynthia Rothrock are great fun in this, Don Niam is the star of the show.Undefeatable does not have pacing problems. It moves along fast, with one hugely entertaining piece of nonsense after another. The fights and stunts are simultaneously well done and really silly. The quite legendary final showdown is well worth waiting for. It's a master-class in imaginative funniness. I'm not going to describe this fight because (a) if you've seen it before then really it speaks for itself and you will know words can simply do it no justice, or (b) if you haven't seen it then I wouldn't want to prime you at all for what you are about to see.I don't really know if they realized just how hilarious this film was when they filmed it but I doubt it somehow as the lead performers certainly seem to be playing things completely straight, This, of course, adds ten-fold to the ensuing hilarity. In the final analysis, Undefeatable works splendidly as entertainment.

This movie evolves around Don niam. Niam plays the character Stingray. Stingray is kickboxer champion who has won all of his fights, but he want's to find someone who can stand up to his strength. So stingray begins a journey around America where he tries to find worthy people to kill. Cynthia rawcock plays his wife Anna. Anna tries to kill stingray but oh no, nobody kills stingray. So he brakes her spine and eats her heart. Stingray becomes furious after killing his wife. He becomes delusional and thinks that every red haired women is his Anna. He eventually kills every women he sees.As usual Don Niam gives us spectacular acting but Cynthias is mediocre at best. The movie is fast paced and it has some really good action scenes. This movie is the best one of the American Kickboxer trilogy. American Kickboxer 2, stingrays revenge.