What is the greatest martial arts fight in cinema history?

[Lil' Bitch 0]

I nominate Jet Li Vs. Jet Li from The One.

[Gary Floyd 0]

Ricky vs. Oscar from "Story of Ricky". The martial arts aren't that great, but it's still awesome, simply for Oscar tearing out his own intestines, and strangling Ricky with them.

[Dimensions 0]

The chase in Ong Bak through the market place or the ending at least.

[Guest Askewniverse]

Team USA vs. Team Korea (Tommy Lee vs. Dae Han, in particular) from Best of the Best.

[Nighthawk 0]

Jackie Chan vs Ken Lo from Drunken Master II (that's The Legend of Drunken Master for those only familiar with the reissue)

[Guest wildpegasus]

Why do we have to limit it to martial arts and cinema?

 

Let's talk about the greatest fictional fights off all time; just not the movies

[Nighthawk 0]

Oh, nobody wants to hear about that.

[Special K 0]

Jackie Chan vs Ken Lo from Drunken Master II (that's The Legend of Drunken Master for those only familiar with the reissue)

 

^Yes. That's my #1. Some lesser seen gems.

 

Gymkata

The skill of gymnastics, the kill of karate. John Cabot vs. a mob of well-armed villagers, armed only with: A POMMEL HORSE!

 

 

Musashi Miyamoto, aka Samurai 1, starring Toshiro Mifune. I love the fight scenes in this movie. They're both funny and realistic. Mifune is a dirty, bedraggled wild man who will just charge you with a big stick and beat you a vigorously as he can. Just the crazy look on his face is phenomenal, and the beatings he lays out to trained guards, simply because he is nuts and tireless are a joy to watch,

 

 

Priest vs. Zombies, Braindead, aka Dead/Alive.

Edited December 8, 2005 by Special K

[The Niggardly King 0]

Anything with Chuck Norris.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

I'm seconding Ong-Bak. I LOVE that movie. Especially the barfight between the main character and that one American that did nothing but use weapons. Reminded me a lot of an ECW brawl, just more fluid and more one-sided. The beginning of it was AWESOME, as the main character just ends a fight quickly with some other guy, and then the American puts down his newspaper and walks over to him, offers to shake his hand...and then SMASH! Beer bottle over the head!

[jwpeer 0]

Ong-Bak is just an awesome movie.

[Special K 0]

Only thing better than the start of that fight is the end. Ja throws him through a 2nd-story glass window and jumps after him and knees him in midair.

[MrRant 0]

Any fight scene from Crippled Masters.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

In terms of sheer ass-kickery: Anything from Ong-Bak. Honestly, do not try and argue anything against this movie.

[Guest Brian]

Drunken Master II fight as has already been mentioned.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Apollo Creed vs. Ivan Drago.

 

Take THAT American Democracy!

[Karnage 0]

Anything directed by Sammo Hung such as Knockabout, Eastern Condors, Dragons Forever, Wheels on Meals, The Magnificent Butcher, Spooky Encounters, etc...

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

[razazteca 0]

Legend of the Fist is a good choice.

 

But the true master is this man!

 

 

Jet Li vs Donnie Yen

Edited December 9, 2005 by razazteca

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Jet Li is brutally awesome in everything he's in. So damn fluid in his movements.

[Ravenbomb 0]

Christian Bale vs. Everyone at the end of Equilibrium

[jwpeer 0]

Christian Bale vs. Everyone at the end of Equilibrium

 

 

I just saw that movie the other day. He really could have killed the entire city, and pretty much killed everyone who could fight in the city. That was awesome...though a lot more style than substance (Which isn't bad persay, but it can't compare with the scenes in Ong-Bak)

[Lei Tong 0]

Not hand to hand, but:

 

Rob Roy vs. Archibald Cunningham

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Dalton (Patrick Swayze) vs. the guy who says "I used to fuck guys like you in prison" in Road House. So much ballet, and such a finish.

 

I'm also partial to the Warriors vs. the Baseball Furies, which is wonderful in its own way.

 

Final note: just about the whole tournament in Master of the Flying Guillotine, and that final guillotine battle as well.

[cabbageboy 0]

I love that Rob Roy fight scene. In fact Tim Roth in that (as Cunningham) is the best heel in film history. Really the only time where I felt if I even met the ACTOR on the street I'd want to kick his ass. Just a fucker. I mean that in a good way.

[Special K 0]

G.O.B. Versus Michael Bluth, Beef Consomme

[haVoc 0]

Here's a martial arts comp VIDEO if anyone is bored.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

...I think I saw an F5 in that video...

[Matt Young 0]

Kiddo vs. the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill Volume 1. I've seen that movie probably 50 times and it never gets old.

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

I'm also partial to the Warriors vs. the Baseball Furies, which is wonderful in its own way.

 

I like it when the Warriors fight those stripey shirt guys in the bathroom, too.