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Films with best fight Choreography

Always dug the Ip Man fight scenes, in almost all of em...even the Iron Mike one lol...The Matrix and John Wick both come to mind...OH Equilibrium, always liked the "Gun Kata" stuff they did. Fight scenes from Netflix's Daredevil show were awesome....I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch
 
Bloodsport is cool for all the different styles it showed. I just wish that monkey style fighter made it farther. He was cool.

The raid: redemption is awesome.

Rumble in the Bronx had probably the best fight choreography of any Jackie Chan movie, although there are others that come close.

Ip man is pretty good too but not as good as the ones I mentioned above.
 
I always liked Jackie Chan / Rush Hour fighting scenes... but I need to see it with an adult mind now to see if it's still good.

Creed fights are beautifully choreographed.

When you look at the Rocky movies, the fights are stupid beyond words. Sylvester Stallone is running into the other fighters, while getting punched over and over again. It looks goofy and absurd (and I love the Rocky Franchise).

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But Creed looks like actual boxing. The fights are from an over the shoulder perspective and it is filmed (or at least appears to be) in one shot.
 
Plutoburn said:
Flashpoint for modern action

Drunken Master 2 for kung fu action

I like Kung Fu Hustle a lot but it's really difficult to compare it to other king fu movies because of how much CGI is in it. The blind assassins scene was my favourite but that scene is more science fiction than kung fu.
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Dude Flashpoint was the fucking shit. That's the one where Yen is doing some sweet wirefu combined with Jitz right?
 
this is my favorite 3 seconds of fight in cinema.

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Sometimes it's not the Choreography as much as it's also the pacing/framing/camerawork that isn't jumpcuts and quick editing

The movie Ninja 2: Shadow of a Tear (directed by Isaac Florentine) is straight up amazing w/ it's fight scenes. As it Close Range, both starring Scott Adkins (the GOAT martial artists in movies). He also did Undisputed II and III, w/ waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better fight scenes than the Ving Rhames/Snipes original

Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning is also amazing, by Hyams. Amazing fight between Adkins and Arlovski, and probably my second favorite Long Take ever in the hallway escape scene

For older movies, the choreography in Rapidfire (Brandon Lee/Powers Boothe movie) is amazing. Seriously, go back and watch that, same guy directed Marked for Death (probably the best choreographed Seagal flick)

Both Raids have been mentioned, but are amazing.

The long take/final fight from The Protector might be the best long take/final fight EVER
 
This guy explains it much much better than I can. Great YT channel btw
 
Drunken Master
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Hard Boiled (with Guns)

You could pick pretty much any Yuen Woo Ping choreographed movie.
 
Everytime I watch Ol Dirty King Fu, it make me feel young again
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Apparently they had to refilm some more fight scenes to add for MK after they initially wrapped
the main choreographer was already on another project, so the fight between Scorpion/Johnny Cage (the part in the ladder factory looking place, not the bamboo forest), and the fight between Lui Kang/Reptile were all choreographed by Lui Kang's actor Robin Shou himself

Shou also taught Wes Anderson about Framing for action scenes in the beginning of filming, as he'd never done that before.
source: GoodBadFlicks episode that came about literally yesterday about the VG/Movie
 
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