Favorite movie fight scenes?

Black Barney wrote: 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.

Yes, BB. I'm with you on all fronts here. Crouching Tiger, overall hands down.

@Micheal You nailed it for Eastern Promises. It has to be the most realistic fight sequence ever. Not sure I buy the sexual connotation as my peen and scrote were WAAY tucked up inside my body during that scene.

AEL, not EAL. :-P

Maybe "sexual" is too on the nose...perhaps "biological" is more appropriate? "Physical" doesn't capture all of the subtext...

Jack Reacher - Ducks under the dude's punch and catches him with a hook right in the chops. ONE PUNCH made that movie worth watching.

Quantum of Solace knife fight:
That may be one of the baddest fight scenes of all time.

Oldboy, the hallway fight scene. It's fucking FANTASTIC.

Best knife fighting scenes in cinema.

It feels weird being reminded of the Hunted.. it is a great fight scene and I forgot about that. I just absolutely HATED that movie... I was there for opening day too! I loved the actors involved and thought I was going to see a modern day Rambo... 30 minutes in I thought 'nothing can save this crap' ... the knife fight almost does.. but with youtube now, it's just not enough anymore. Still, I'm happy I was reminded that I didn't totally waste that night out.

I don't think these have been mentioned: John Woo fight scenes. While as an expert in pistol craft I can't stand double-pistols for reasons that anyone who shoots will understand, they look great in the movies.

Not a great fight scene, but it is pretty amusing.