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Seven of the best martial arts fight scenes in movie history
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I do enjoy a good chop-socky fight so I watched ’em all, but I gotta say… Their #4 (Tony Jaa in Ong Bak 3) should NOT be on the list.
Rather than stepping back so we can see the “action,” this sequence is full of close-up single hits, off-screen impacts, weirdo framerate shifts… the aftermath without the action. It reminded me of the laziest Steven Seagal fight, and that’s saying something.
Better to swap in the hammer fight from “Oldboy” or even one of the other scenes from “Crouching Tiger” like the teahouse melee or the bamboo forest fight.
I was pretty disappointed with #4.
One that reliably pops into my head is Donnie Yen vs Collin Chou in Flashpoint. Great punchin’, kickin’ and…. grapplin’!
I would have somehow added Alice Tseng in Ninja: The Final Duel
The alley fight in THEY LIVE was pretty epic
Not including the fight scene between Jackie Chan & Benny Urquidez in Wheels on Meals is criminal
For me it was Bruce vs Kareem in Game of Death. As I recall, Bruce was trying to make his way somewhere past a bunch of villains, and suddenly Kareem pops out as maybe the last guy, with that massive height and those gangly but powerful legs. A deadly force; the polar opposite of his silly character in Airplane.
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