Greatest Fight Scenes Ever

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What better than a great fight scene!

Nothing in a film is more satisfying than a fight, especially one where a bully or a bad guy gets the snot kicked out of them. Toss in an underdog or an element of revenge and you have the recipe for a great fight scene! To me, a fight scene is an art form unto itself, and plays with structure meaning there is a beginning, middle, end, toss in some realistic moves, good stunt work, and BAM you have a great scene.

This list is about the Scenes, most are great films too, if you have not caught one of these films you should!

Here you go

10.  Kung Fu Hustle 2004 - Sing Vs. The Beast - The Iron Palm. This movie has a lot of great fight scenes in it. They play like a great ballet. The final fight between Sing and the Beast, excellent. What  like about the fight, besides the great action, is the way it ended , with Sing offering to teach the Beast and the Beast breaking into tears knowing he is facing his new master.

9. The Warriors 1979 - Warriors Vs. the Baseball Furies - "Warriors come out and play" This scene makes it do to sheer guts of the warriors, baseball furies have bats and the Warriors have only their fists. This movie has many a great fight scene. Being based on what some consider one of the greatest adventures in human history , Anabasis by Xenophon, this movie lives up to it's Greek roots.

8. Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 - Indiana Jones Vs. The Bald Nazi - This scene almost did not make it. The scene that almost beat it out was the sword fighter vs. Indy , where Indy just shoots him. This scene has a great villain, a bald Nazi, and an awesome ending !

7. The Karate Kid 1984 - Daniel son Vs. Cobra Kai - Sweep the Leg Jonny - Miagi Fix - Say what you will about this movie, that final fight is a great scene. Has all the great elements, underdog, bully, great bad guy - an awesome comeback, The girl , Same Director as Rocky . . . . . . .

6. Rocky 1979 - Rocky Vs. Apollo Creed - There aint gonna be no rematch - The underdog defined - Come on Rocky works out in a meat locker. Love it when Apollo's manager watches Rocky working out on the TV and you can  hear the ribs in the slab of beef breaking. Seems fitting one of the better movies of all time makes the great fight list.

5. Gross Pointe Blank 1997 - John Cussak Vs. Benny the Jet - This has some classic fight elements to it - The fight starts at long range, meaning kicks, moves to mid range, hands and then finishes with ground. Cool fight, I liked the movie too, dont think I would have liked it as much without the fight though.

4. From Russia with Love 1963 - Sean Connery Vs. Robert Shaw - Set a fight up on  a train in tight quarters. . .. .simply genius. Love it when Bond gets a chance to show off his hand to hand skills. This is one of my favorite Bond films.

3. The Matrix 1999 - Neo Vs. Agent Smith - Mr. Anderson - Great adversary and a chosen one, love that set up - When Neo figures out that he can kick the Agents A$$, great payoff scene  . . .  Loved the film! Too bad the sequels sucked . . ..

2. Kill Bill Vol. 1 2003 - The Bride Vs. The Crazy 88 and Oren Ishi - Revenge! my favorite motivator in film - limb hacking, blood squirting action. There is some great swordplay here - What is better than two chicks fighting?  Tarrantino set this scene up beautifully.

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 - King Arthur Vs. The Black Knight - Tis but a flesh wound - All of the fights on this list fought to be number one , but any fight where I can use the dialogue in ever day life deserves the number one spot. I seriously use the flesh wound line weekly. Lets call it a draw!


There they are -

There are more that maybe could change places with a few on the list . . .. .

Here are the also rans:

The Quiet Man - John Wayne Vs. Victor McLaughlin

The Princess Bride - Indigo Montoyas Vs. The Man in Black

Enter the Dragon - Bruce Lee Vs. Anybody :) he kicks A$$

They Live - Rowdy Roddy Piper in the Alley Scene

Predator - Arnold Vs. The Predator -

Empire Strikes Back - Luke Vs. Vader

Yojimbo - Sanjuro Vs. Unosuke

Lethal Weapon - Riggs Vs. Joshua

Evil Dead 2 - Bruce Campbell Vs. his own right hand

Robin Hood 1938 -Robin Hood Vs. Sir Guy of Guisbourne


That's it -


Cheers

Walt