Favorite movie fight scenes?

Final fight in Jet Lee's Fist of Legend.

This is a fight and love scene at the same time.

Two men enter. One man leaves.

Tron Legacy wasn't the greatest movie, but the bar fight was pretty cool.

Get away from her you bitch!

Oh man, another great reference w/the Rob Roy fight!

There are two fights with Jackie's usual stunt group in Drunken Master 2. They are both amazing. This is the first of those two...



and Samo Hung is amazing in this sequence from Dragons Forever...



Barnes already mentioned this stuff so I'll throw something new on here too.

I always liked Chuck Norris's the Octagon... lots of great fights with Ninja's, plenty of hilarious one liners and a super cheesy echo machine that doubles all of his voice overs: "It's awfully quiet in here.. I think it must be ninja's, ninja's, ninja's... The Chuck Norris joke club almost ruined my enjoyment of this movie but to hell with them.. I still dig it.

For me, nothing filmed has ever captured the ugliness and raw desperation of an actual fight the way the bathhouse scene from Eastern Promises did. I'm not a fan of the movie in general, but Cronenberg absolutely nailed that scene. So believable.

That said, a beautifully choreographed Kung fu scene can really be something. There are way too many to list here, but an all time favorite of mine is the final fight from Drunken Master 2, in particular when Jackie rolls the other guys head around the inside of his arms. I've yelled 'Jackie Chan head roll!' countless times while horsing around with buddies a split second before trying to recreate it. It's my son's favorite move as well...

Jackie Chan is such an amazing athlete. He's really fun to watch... when he's not "acting."

Love this thread... I can't believe I forgot Return of the Dragon. It seems a little too cheesy these days, especially the sound effects but the cat is still a weird touch too. But I like it, I like the respect that Bruce shows his enemy at the end, I like the length and the drama, I like the way Bruce's outline looks and his little bouncy movements compared to Chucks more intentional and clunky movement. I like the setting and the perseverance of the bad guy. Chuck keeps getting back up and Bruce lets him, you start to feel empathy for the villain by the end, he shows real heart. Great fight!



By way of contrast I also really enjoy this one from Ragging Bull, I love how they use silence in this one.. and theatrics too.



There's just too many good ones out there.

Mad Dog wrote: Tron Legacy wasn't the greatest movie, but the bar fight was pretty cool.

The Tron reboot was visually stunning. Tron had the potential to be so much more. But, the script absolutely sucked. It suffered from the usual Disney marketing dichotomy of wanting to cross-over to a legitimate meme for the cyberpunk world of adult fiction and marketing toys to tots and setting up a kiddy ride at its theme park. Watch it on "mute" or just play the soundtrack with the actors' dialogue and it rocks.

1. Neo becoming The One and facing down Agent Smith at the end of The Matrix was the first to spring to mind.
2. Fist of the North Star - Kenshiro and Ral facing off and destroying the landscape around them just by oozing raw power. This may be one of the only epic finale fights where the protagonist loses...or did he?
3. Boromir, Merry, and Pippin fighting a desperate retreat against the Uruk-Hai at Amon Hen. I really get a band of brothers sense from this fight.
4. Daredevil owning the Russkies. Twice. "Let her go."

No love for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon?!? I wouldn't even know which one to pick. I think I like the one where Chow Young Fat meetings that call girl for the first time in the backyard of buddy's house and he's only using a stick, "No action without reaction"

Kill Bill vol I - the stuff in Japan. wow.

Yeah I gotta give it up for Phantom Menace. It's the only time in my life that I went back to a see a movie in theatres JUST to see ONE fight scene again on the big screen.

...and then I went to see it for a third time.

This won't get any love here but The Bourne Ultimatum had my heart totally racing at the franctic shaky-cam fight scenes. The one in Tunisia was insane.

For me, nothing filmed has ever captured the ugliness and raw desperation of an actual fight the way the bathhouse scene from Eastern Promises did. I'm not a fan of the movie in general, but Cronenberg absolutely nailed that scene. So believable.

Speaking as a huge Cronenberg fan, that is one of the best things he has ever filmed. And it is one of the most compelling fight scenes ever filmed.

I don't think there is any fight scene as RAW as that. It's so fleshy and DANGEROUS- two completely naked men slapping and sliding around- it is very specifically sexual in connotation. But then there's that knife in the middle of all of this skin, and it just feels absolutely terrifying and lethal. Somebody is going to get cut, and there is nothing between the blade and the blood but that flesh. Few things in film make me nauseous, but this scene did that.