Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

While being a minority; most grassroots conservative tea party members generally love this movie, while the majority of folks' really dislike this film. While, I'm not for any political party, I can understand why, the majority hate it. The movie doesn't feel like a documentary. While Sarah Palin and her team were not part of the production; the film looks and reads like an infomercial. It's no surprised, that the movie was release, a year, before the presidential election of 2012. It felt like a one-sided campaign ad that was trying to put Sarah Palin, back in the limelight. In hope, that the public would demand her, to seek office. This documentary kinda flew under the political radar. I don't know, many people that came to see this movie when it came out. It's very questionable, why director Stephen K. Bannon chose this title for the name of his film; because it's pretty clear, that Sarah Palin was defeated, pretty badly. Not only did she lost the vice presidency in 2009, she quit the governorship of Alaska and as of this writing, never try, ran for public office, again. Bannon's originally choice for a title, 'Take a Stand' is more logically, but also makes no sense. While, she's still a strong polarizing public figure that speaks out, once in a while, she's doesn't have the political mindset that she had before 2008. Sarah Palin of the present day, is more focus on raising her family, and trying to maintain her outdoors themed reality television. That's not leadership at all. That's call; taking your ball and going home. Another thing, that the movie's fails to do, is be very informative. Yes, it show her rise from house-mom, to mayor, and then her tenure as Governor of Alaska, and her time spent as John McCain's running mate in 2008's presidential election, but the film approached her career, as if, filming a hagiography worthy of sainthood. While, the film does good, showing her strengths, the film really gloss over, most of her political faults. A good documentary is supposed to show a more realistic, complex showing of its subject matter. Instead, this film really tries to romanticize Palin, by having interviews with people who currently work for Palin, or have in the past, has been friends with her. All they talk about, is her achievements, while omitting her faults. While, it's great that the documentary point out some misunderstood facts about her past; the documentary's information is really felt one-sided and preachy. That isn't informative, at all. The film needed to be, a little more well-round; rather than showing a one-sided biased approach. The movie used some, really odd imagery at well. Images of animals attack, atomic warfare, knights, seem very out-there, and isn't grounded in any sense of reality. I don't know what most of them, were supposed to evocative. It felt more like a clusterf*ck mess. A good example is the slavery song, in the beginning. It's beautiful, but it doesn't match up, with the imagery of Sarah Palin, growing up. Unless, Palin's herself, feels like she was a slave, most of her life, which I really doubt. The film is constructed in three acts: Act 1: the servant's heart, Act 2: Mrs. Palin goes to Juneau, Act 3: Present at the Creation. All of the film's acts, have title cards, that start in an eerily way. A dark, snowy image, follow up, with haunting music. It felt like a start of a horror movie! It gets more jarring, as the first act feels like a tourism brochure with the interviewers ramblings incoherent more about their own Alaskan's life, rather than Palin. The second act is the only part in the documentary that seem focus on Palin. The third act, felt like a mindless rant from the director, using Sarah Palin as a figurehead, to fight a made-up, spiritual holy war, against the main stream media. It was kinda disturbing. I didn't like how the movie made her detractors seem like evil one-dimensional cartoony caricatures, out to destroy the world. This biblical cartoonish version of real life is just as bad, as the caricatured parodies of Palin. Not only does the third act, whitewash history, but it scapegoating all the blame of the presidential failure to the other parties. Another thing, that I didn't like, is how the movie often views, any criticism of Palin, as discrimination. Yes, some of these criticism are a bit sexism or misogyny and yes, I kinda agree that some critics of her, went a little overboard, with the shame calling and callousness threats. Still, I don't agree that, Sarah Palin is, without any criticism. Sarah Palin does have extremely hypocritical political views. She claims to be a conservative, but rarely show some. The movie claims that she stood up against Big Oil after the Exxon Valdez oil tragedy, but she rarely shows any environmental activism. Her advocacy of oil exploration and development including drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the de-listing of the polar bear as an endangered species is pretty alarming. Another thing, the movie claim to be for small business, but she got corporations to open locations in Wasilla. How is that, for the little guy? That must have destroyed their local downtown economy. The movie likes to compare her to Ronald Reagan, but I really don't see it. During her campaign to become vice president, a lot of things, came under close media scrutiny, particularly with regard to her religious perspective on public life, her socially conservative views, and her perceived lack of experience in foreign and domestic politics. Ronald Reagan was at least, a little more season. Overall: Not to be confused with 2011's sport documentary with the same name, The Undefeated is a niche documentary only good for Sarah Palin's supporters. To everybody else, it's way too heavy-handed to be taken serious. Don't watch, unless you're a huge fan of her work.

If you are a typical leftist who has bought into the media-manufactured image of Sara Palin as hateful and ignorant then you will not like this. If you like Sara Palin then you will like maybe love this movie. It is unapologetically a conservative and Pro-Palin perspective. But guess what there is nothing wrong with that. It does not try to present itself as anything but that. That said, even if you don't like her or are ambivalent but are not a mindless lemming so indoctrinated by MSNBC, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher etc that the mere mention of Sara Palin causes you to cringe then you would probably like this.One reviewer said that it was as biased as a Michael Moore film (which it is) but then condescendingly wrote "...but at least Michael Moore brings awareness to a particular subject of topical interest rather than simply shameless self-promotion." What an absurd comment. Of course it's self-promotion. It's about her life. Her life is the topic so it's also absurd to suggest she has no awareness of the topic. Now unlike Moore she does not have to resort to making things up and misrepresenting the facts.The film is divided up nicely in three sections; her years as mayor, her years as governor and her VP campaign and the post-campaign years since then. What I found most insightful was the more in-depth accounting of what she accomplished as mayor and governor and what she was up against and the issues that were so peculiar to Alaska. I also really appreciated hearing about why she resigned as governor. Suffice it to say, it wasn't quite as simple as most of the media portrayed which was basically that she wanted to leave Alaska and be famous.Is it self-promotion? Yes. Is it factual? Yes. And given how she is attacked and misrepresented by most of the media it was nice to see something positive about her. She had an approval rating of 88% right before McCain called her. You don't get an 88% approval rating by being ignorant and hateful. There is nothing wrong with self-promotion if you can back it up and Sara Palin can.

Just saw The Undefeated(Loved it) on Reelz after watching about all I could stand of Game Change(Hated it). They make their girls tough as nails up there in Alaska.I've always been a big fan of Sarah Palin and it's great to get the back story on her rise from PTA Mom to national political power broker.It's a great American story.What was that song that they played at the beginning and again at the end of the film??? Was it a civil war hymn?? I recognized it from somewhere.Anyone know????

I am a political moderate and don't agree with Sarah Palin on such things as religion, evolution, abortion and gay rights. However, as the movie shows she is a remarkable fine woman who has done wonderful things in Alaska by fighting corruption and fighting the oil companies so that Alaska could get its fair share of oil money.The movie starts by showing the unrestrained and even insane hatred some liberals, leftists and show biz people have for her: about 5 minutes or more of prominent people in the media doing obscenity laden rants of hatred looking like they want to murder Sarah Palin on the spot. That was scary to watch.The rest of the movie is all pro Palin, but it is true information. Some of the parts have over-dramatic symbolic things going on. Also, it does show some of the sneering media attacks on her to falsely portray her as dumb. The hatred against her has not slowed down even as one can see in many of the reviews here. The Obama supporters have put in hateful reviews and dumped here a mass of scores of "one." It is very doubtful that even a modest portion of them actually watched the movie.They have this rabid insane hatred of Sarah Palin because she is a threat to Obama staying in the White House and other liberal politicians staying in power. Also, the truth makes people furious. To counter the truth they tell lies about Sarah Palin. They don't want any open minded people seeing this movie. Yes, even though the movie is all pro Palin it is good because it gives her real life story. I give it a 9 score.