Best Fight Scenes. Any movie.



"We face each other as god intended, sportsman-like. No tricks, no weapons...Skill against skill alone"
"You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try and kill each other as civilized people?"
*Lifts rock that he can launch with such velocity that it explodes on impact*
"I could kill you now?"
*Smiles*
 
Not from movie,but opera - to show how opera fights differ from movie fights
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Hector versus Achilles from the 2004 film Troy.



And for something wild. From the criminally underwatched Christopher Nolan film Tenet. The Protaganist gets in a fight with a Special Forces soldier who is traveling inverted or backwards through time, leading to some absolutely wild SFX and choreography to make the fight super unique and entertaining.



And something else equally wild, from the 2008 Thai Film Chocolate starring Jeeja Yanin... *takes a breath* an autistic Thai Kickboxer whose loved ones run afoul of a local criminal organization. The film presents her autism as allowing her to not just excel at her martial arts abilities, but also to better read and predict her opponents moves in a sort of "Taskmaster" style of fight copying or reproduction.

Get both Tony Jaa and Jackie Chan vibes from this action scene.



She is really challenged by a Capoeira martial artist (with some form of Tourettes) whose fighting style is too erratic for her to reliably read.



And finally gotta add Equilibrium. There are so many quick cuts in this fight scene watching it now, but when it came out in the wake of all of The Matrix imitators, seeing a final fight where both sides are just trying to shoot each other with handguns and the whole fight basically being hand fighting was just the coolest thing...

 
In Honor of the final Mission Impossible Coming Out...

The infamous Bathroom Fight Scene from Mission Impossible: Fallout which had Tom Cruise and Henry Cavill's characters fight almost what was literally a random mook in a bathroom.



Extraction One Cut. Similar to what was seen in the third John Wick movie where the protagonist was fighting fully armored enemies but here, no music and far more simple camera work.



And just to one up it, Atomic Blonde when Charlize Theron did a ten minute fight scene though it was stitched together from multiple takes, the choreography and editing made it a pretty impressive achievement letting it all flow seamlessly onscreen



Not sure if its the best fight scene... even in the Expendables franchise... but seeing Stallone, Willis, Schwarzeneggar and Chuck Norris teaming up to take on an Army of Mooks and delivering cringe one liners is action cinema at its finest.

 
Benny 'The Jet' Urquidez versus Jackie Chan in Meals on Wheels, a 1984 Hong Kong Martial Arts Comedy film. A lot of folks consider this one of the best martial arts fights in film.

 
The one in Dragons Forever was also great



Back in the day they were all on VHS, and many people would rewind just the fights to watch them multiple times, so tape on the fight section would be in worse condition than the rest of the movie.
 
The Long Cut scene from John Woo's Hard Boiled. When John Woo helped create cinematic 'Gun Fu' while working in Hong Kong cinema with legendary films such as A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and the aforementioned Hard Boiled.



Keep in mind the above scene was only one long cut in a truly epic action finale which took place in a Hospital and was only the last of several impressive action set pieces that took place in the film including bloody shootouts taking place in a Tea House, a dockyard and a Drug Warehouse.

Also the final shootout from Brian DePalma's Scarface. Also suitably epic.



And for something completely different... but still Gun Fu ish enough. From the animated film Resident Evil: Vendetta where Captain America Christ Redfield takes on a bunch of zombies and then is helped by the franchises very own boyish Zelda equivalent, Leon Kennedy, showing up on his motorcycle to help.



Chris Redfield later had an even more ridiculous Gun-Fu fight with the main villain of the film as well later on.

And for a modern evolution of the technique that isn't John Wick, the first scene from Extraction featuring Chris Hemsworth.

 
My favorite has always been The Raid. It's brutal, realistic, but still flows.



And that's not even the best fight in it.
 
Abhorsen said:
My favorite has always been The Raid. It's brutal, realistic, but still flows.



And that's not even the best fight in it.
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I remember watching in theaters and I really dug it except that one or two of the fights, with the short moustached villainous guy, I was actually going in my mind... This fight is taking too long and I couldn't believe it but I was getting kinda bored with them battering each other insensate.

The rest of the action scenes were pretty neat and impressive though.

And the sequel while not as tight was also solid with the action sequences.
 
I can't believe we still haven't posted the golden standard for Holywood firefights




Also some classic Clint Eastwood




Not flashy but still very tense gondola fight from the same movie

 
That's funny. For some reason I assumed someone already had posted the scene from Heat already since it's so iconic. Guess not... For shame!
 
Well fun fact, Michael Mann wrote and directed a 1989 Crime Drama called LA Takedown which he later remade into the film Heat. The main difference being that LA Takedown was made for television, and so had the budget, crew and constraints of developing a film for the network television format had.



But even with all that said, their version of the shootout is pretty high quality considering those constraints.

All of this talk of Heat though did remind me of another of my favorite action movies of that time period. Another one starring Robert DeNiro no less. The 1998 film Ronin. While there's some good action scenes sprinkled throughout this really smart espionage thriller type of film, my favorite is the ambush car chase scene for the MacGuffin that is the core plot point of the film.

 
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