The 10 Best Fight Scenes In Movie History

The 10 Best Fight Scenes In Movie History

Almost every movie has a fight scene, which makes the truly great ones, as seen in films like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Oldboy, stand out.

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From the intense fisticuffs of The Raid franchise to the slapstick hilarity of Bridget Jones’ Diary, there’s a fight scene in some capacity in just about every movie. Crafting an effective fight scene takes a strong command of suspense and an editor with a sense of the rhythm of stylized violence. It also helps if the actors do their own stunts, otherwise, the director is forced to cut around stunt doubles.

Thanks to the countless generic fight scenes that audiences have had to sit through, the really well-directed ones tend to stand out amongst the crowd. These fight scenes are the best in movie history.

10 Cliff Booth & Brandy V. The Manson Murderers In Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

Quentin Tarantino’s films are notorious for their graphic violence. He broke the mold with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which has minimal violence (none, really, except for some on-screen make-believe and a scuffle over a slashed tire) in its first and second acts. Then, in the glorious finale, Tarantino unleashes a whole movie’s worth of violence in a single brutal smackdown. Par for the course after killing off Hitler in Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino tweaked history in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Instead of going to Sharon Tate’s house and killing her and her friends, the Manson murderers go next door to Rick Dalton’s house and get a taste of their own medicine when Cliff Booth and his pitbull Brandy deliver swift vigilante justice set to Vanilla Fudge’s “You Keep Me Hangin’ On.”

9 Chaney V. Street In Hard Times

Charles Bronson gave one of his career-defining performances in Walter Hill’s directorial debut Hard Times. He plays Chaney, a bare-knuckle boxer whose unbeatable fighting style attracts the attention of a hustler named Speed who takes him under his wing.

After winning matches left and right in New Orleans without a problem, Chaney finally faces an opponent who actually stands a chance against him in the climactic smackdown. As a sleek, athletic fighter, Street offers a unique challenge to Chaney’s brute force.

8 Rocky Balboa V. Apollo Creed In Rocky II

Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed engage in two of the most iconic fight scenes in movie history. The final fight in Rocky subverts genre expectations and defines the movie as a love story above all when Creed defeats Rocky and he doesn’t care, because Adrian is at his side no matter what. In Rocky II, when the two face off in a rematch, Stallone subverts the audience’s expectations again. Rocky wins this time, but not with a glorious slow-motion K.O. shot.

A few rounds into the fight, Rocky and Apollo are both exhausted. Rocky only wins because when Apollo passes out from exhaustion, he’s (barely) still standing. His victory by knockout is a victory of sheer will and determination.

7 Yu Shu Lien V. Jen Yu In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

The martial arts sequences made Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon an international hit; the acrobatic, ballet-like fighting style used by the movie’s characters made it stand out.

The showdown between Michelle Yeoh’s character Yu Shu Lien and Zhang Ziyi’s character Jen Yu is the movie’s highlight. Lien keeps switching weapons to keep up with the precision of Yu’s Green Destiny sword. Throughout the fight, the two hit each other with verbal blows as well as physical ones.

6 Indiana Jones V. The Mechanic In Raiders Of The Lost Ark

After turning down Pat Roach for the role of Darth Vader, George Lucas recruited him to play a handful of burly side villains in the Indiana Jones movies. His bulky physique as a wrestler made him a physical threat of comical proportions opposite Harrison Ford.

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Roach played a mechanic working on a Nazi plane. While Marion is taking out the pilot, Indy fights the mechanic down on the airfield. The “fortune and glory”-seeking archeologist gets clobbered. As the mechanic cockily prepares to deliver the final death blow, Indy notices the plane’s rotating propellors approaching behind him and cowers. It’s too late for the mechanic, who’s caught in the propellors and sprayed across the wing of the plane.

5 Nikolai V. The Chechens In Eastern Promises

The bathhouse fight in Eastern Promises is a sensational display of violence. Since the Chechens don’t know what Kirill looks like, Semyon lures Nikolai down to a bathhouse in the hopes that the Chechens will think he’s Kirill and kill him.

However, when the Chechens attack Nikolai with linoleum knives, he fights back. He’s stabbed a handful of times and it’s a very close call, but he manages to kill them both, scuppering Semyon’s plans.

4 Lee V. Han In Enter The Dragon

After taking on Han’s army of henchmen singlehandedly in the final act of Enter the Dragon, Lee confronts Han himself in his private museum. The two engage in a spectacular climactic fight.

Han flees to a hall of mirrors, where Lee can’t tell which one is the real Han until he breaks them all. Then, he kills him.

3 John Nada V. Frank Armitage In They Live

A common pick for one of the greatest fight scenes ever filmed, the alleyway brawl in John Carpenter’s They Live is spectacularly staged. For the scene in which John Nada and Frank Armitage fight over a pair of sunglasses that allows wearers to see the world for the brainwashed, alien-infested dystopia it really is, Roddy Piper and Keith David were determined not to hand over the reins to a stunt team.

The fight was only supposed to last for 20 seconds, but Piper and David decided to fight for real on the day and Carpenter was so impressed that he left the entire fight in the film uncut at five-and-a-half minutes long.

2 James Bond V. Red Grant In From Russia With Love

Midway through From Russia with Love, the second-ever Bond movie, Red Grant, a SPECTRE assassin played by Jaws’ grizzled antihero Robert Shaw, confronts Sean Connery’s 007 on the Orient Express. He initially has Bond at gunpoint, but after Bond uses one of Q’s gadgets to disarm him, the two engage in one of the most shockingly brutal fights in the entire franchise.

This disturbingly violent sequence still has the ability to stun audiences after more than half a century, thanks to director Terence Young’s command of tension and Connery’s convincing portrayal of a Bond who’s fearing for his life despite his suit of plot armor.

1 Oh Dae-su V. Everyone In The Hallway In Oldboy

The hallway fight scene in Park Chan-wook’s revenge thriller masterpiece Oldboy is truly breathtaking. Wrongly imprisoned Oh Dae-su taking on a hallway full of henchmen in an opera of ultraviolence floors viewers on every rewatch. It’s impossible to become desensitized to it.

The crew nailed this scene in 17 takes over the course of three days and there are no hidden edits or CGI except when Oh Dae-su is stabbed (Choi Min-sik was committed to the role, but not enough to take an actual knife in his back).

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