Here's what I think happened regarding Undefeatable: Sometime in the early '90s, a young man named Tai Yim thought to himself, "Golly, I've got a lot of friends who are super good at various forms of martial arts and junk. It sure would be swell if they had a place to showcase their different talents for a paying audience. A movie maybe. That's it!" Yim then gathered up his kung-fu buddies, told them his million dollar idea, and sat down to create some kind of story for his friends to inhabit, after all, a movie needs characters and a plot. After loosely constructing a basic story idea on a series of T.G.I. Fridays bar napkins, Yim presented it to the screenwriting team of Steve Harper and Robert Vassar, who somehow turned the scribblings of a karate lover drunk on Friday's Ultimate Mango Mai Tais into a semi-coherent script. All that was needed now was a director of blazing talent and impeccable vision. And who could be a better choice than Godfrey Ho (aka, Godfrey Hall), director of such outstanding films as Lethal Extortion, Death Code: Ninja, and US Catman 2: Boxer Blow, not to mention the Thunder Ninja Kids series?So, there's a script, a cast of professional martial artists, and a world renowned director. It's time to shoot this baby! Now the fear sets in for, I would guess, the bulk of the cast. They've suddenly realized, "Oh, shit, there are cameras here and stuff. And I have lines. Everybody here knows I'm not an actor, right?" But what can Hall/Ho do? Sending everybody home would be rude, after all, they've been practicing their Eagle Claw Technique for months, perfecting their jump kicks and splits. So, Hall/Ho decides to press on. Damn the lack of acting ability! Damn the ridiculous script! "I made Robo-Kickboxer-Power of Justice, dammit," Hall/Ho screamed into the cold night air. "I can do anything!"
Of course, I could be completely wrong.
Undefeatable is ostensibly a film about a streetfighting waitress (Cynthia Rothrock) seeking the man who killed the younger sister she is struggling to put through college, but it becomes clear rather quickly that the vastly more fascinating tale being woven concerns the film's protagonist, a rape-happy kickboxer named Paul, aka Stingray. We've seen the whole struggling waitress engages in Mafia-backed back alley fights with rival gang members for cash thing before. But Stingray's casual murder spree (seriously, this guy just lopes around town like a pothead until somebody sets him off) is what provides the most entertainment in this colossal failure of a film. Since she receives top billing in this piece of shit though, let's consider Rothrock's story first. Rothrock plays Kristi Jones, a former member of the Red Dragons street gang and current diner waitress, who engages in illegal street brawls for quick cash which she uses to pay her sister Karen's college tuition. Early in the film, Kristi is arrested and interrogated by hunky police dectective Nick DiMarco, an accomplished martial arts expert in his own right. The two of them eventually team up to hunt Stingray, but their "love" story is pretty stale and rendered DOA by the fact that, quite simply, these two "actors" possess no acting prowess what-so-fucking-ever. 
Far more interesting (i.e. ridiculous) is Undefeatable's B Story which focuses on Stingray, a violent sociopath with complex mommy issues. His wife, Anna, after speaking with a pyschiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Simmons (who just happens to be Karen Jones' favorite professor), leaves Stingray after a weirdly comic dinnertime rape. Stingray returns home from the gym the next night to find a "Dear John" letter on the dining room table and, well, he just sorta loses it. Now every woman he sees that halfway resembles Anna (floral dress, teased out red hair) gets kidnapped, taken to his secret warehouse (???), tied up with chains, raped, and eventually murdered. Oh, yeah. Stingray is also fond of plucking out his victim's eyeballs with his bare hands and tossing them in his fish tank. Ew.
After Stingray dispatches Kristi's sister at a strip mall in broad daylight (???), the two stories converge and the film turns into every other "hunt for a serial killer" movie you've ever seen only with more karate and more stupid. In the end (SPOILER ALERT!!!) Kristi and Nick kick Stingray's ass in a hospital basement:
Undefeatable's cheap look, bad acting, and fairly ridiculous yet technically competent fight scenes, reminded me of Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter without the vampires, rampant lesbianism, and wit. It is a hacky kung fu trifle filled with gobs of unintentional hilarity, but very little substance. For lovers of classic cinematic trash, Undefeatable is a treat that I can't help but to endorse wholeheartedly. It's stupid, but it's short, therefore lessening the sense of hopeless depression one can feel after watching a B-movie. I'm totally willing to waste my precious time watching a bad movie if said movie is no longer than 90 minutes or so. Any longer and I really start to wonder why God hasn't struck me dead for squandering the precious gift of life.
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Undefeatable's final bit of dialogue before the credits come blazing across the screen. Kristi, Nick, and Kristi's trio of goofy, Asian sidekicks are standing before Karen's grave presumably to inform the corpse that her death has been avenged or whatever. As the group saunters off into the sunset, this conversation happens...for real:
Goofy Asian Gang Member #2: Hey, maybe we should go to college.
Goofy Asian Gang Member #1: I already told you, our IQs are too high (Note: he actually did say this earlier in the film--he literally told this horrible joke twice in the movie)
Kristi: Actually, guys, I already enrolled you. You start Monday.
Goofy Asian Gang Member #1: Well, what about you, Kristi. Are you gonna go to college?
Kristi: (laughs) Oh, no. Not me.
Nick: That's what you think. I enrolled you!
All: (laughing)
END CREDITS!!!
Wait a minute. So, you can just enroll people in college without them knowing? I don't think that's accurate? Also, since Kristi has enrolled three of her friends in college, does that mean she is going to pay their tuition? She was having a hard enough time paying her sister's tuition, now she's gotta help out three of her unfunny gang member friends? And who the hell is paying for Kristi's education? Officer Nick? They hardly know each other. They don't even share a passionate kiss in the film, but rather a passionless hug. Whatever, Undefeatable!
Also, I'm not sure "undefeatable" is an actual word. Am I wrong?
