The 10 Best Action Movies For Fans Of Fight Choreography

As the children who have grown up loving Indy have aged, so too has their ability to peel away at some of the series' racially problematic elements. One of these elements is the insensitive makeup jobs of various characters, seen in set-pieces like the bar gunfight in Nepal and the Cairo ch


Every fight scene in Kill Bill , especially the House of Blue Leaves massacre in Volume 1 , was meticulously crafted. Tarantino choreographed the fight scenes and all the mid-action cuts on the page before shoot

Then, a wider shot reveals the thing that was ripping through the trees: a large truck, carrying a heavy-duty cage. It slowly becomes apparent that there’s a dinosaur in the cage, and these guys aren’t equipped to handle


Framed by a grandfather (Peter Falk) reading the story to his grandson (Fred Savage), The Princess Bride briskly moves from scene to scene in an escapist adventure anchored by such wonderful actors as Robin Wright, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Wallace Shawn, and André the Gi


John McTiernan’s Die Hard is the perfect action movie. Bruce Willis’ everyman underdog portrayal of John McClane makes for the quintessential action hero , while Alan Rickman’s delightfully theatrical performance as Hans Gruber makes for the quintessential action movie vill


Pretty much every Bruce Lee movie has great fight scenes . Fans of fight choreography won’t be disappointed by Enter the Dragon or Way of the Dragon or even the incomplete Game of Death . But arguably the greatest movie in the Lee canon is 1972’s Fist of Fu


The Deathblade stays human throughout its attacks, but that doesn't make this Lost Ark Gold Guide Ark assassin any less deadly . The real power behind this particular character is that several of its bigger attacks allow it to move quite quickly, getting close enough for the kill and then withdrawing out of harm's way before the enemy can do any real dam


When Pixar released a trailer for a movie in which an old man makes his house take flight with a ton of balloons, skeptical audiences thought that the studio had finally jumped the shark. And then Up hit theaters and left that skepticism in its dust by using the story of a flying house as a giant visual metaphor for a widower dealing with gr


The totally black frame could be read to represent the bleak reality of living in Nazi-occupied Poland, while the match could be seen to represent the beacon of hope that emerges in the form of Oskar Schindler, when he comes to his senses, renounces the Nazi Party, and uses his resources to save 1,200 Jews from concentration camps. The majority of this three-hour epic is shot in black-and-white , but it opens in color. It only turns to black-and-white when that candle burns


There are a bunch of different ways to choreograph a fight scene – like Bruce Lee’s real-life martial arts prowess or Quentin Tarantino’s in-camera editing – and these action movies exemplify the very best of on-screen fisticu


When George Lucas came to Steven Spielberg with the idea for a rollicking action-adventure about a globe-trotting explorer locking horns with the Nazis over an ancient Biblical artifact, the Close Encounters director saw an opportunity to give American cinema its own version of the James Bond franchise . The result was Raiders of the Lost Ark , one of the greatest movies ever made and undeniably the best adventure movie of all ti


Although a lot of his contemporaries, like Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius, tackled the Vietnam War on the big screen while it was still raging, Spielberg avoided explicitly commenting on the conflict in his films until 2017. The Post is really the story of the Washington Post’s battle with the Nixon administration and the power of the free press, but it opens on a U.S. Army base in Vietnam’s Hau Nghia Province in 1


Jaws opens with a point-of-view tracking shot through the ocean. It could be the point-of-view of the shark, but it looks a lot like the point-of-view of a snorkeler. When we watch this scene as an audience member, we’re taken back to memories of swimming in the ocean. With John Williams’ ominous score playing over it, building suspense, we’re terrif


The Martial Artist class in Lost Ark may not be what players expect to see from this group. These aren't ninjas who creep or samurai who hack and slash. Rather, this group is made up of characters that do indeed possess some fighting styles with finesse, but also call upon elemental powers to help with the fi


When James Cameron was hired to write and direct a sequel to Ridley Scott’s masterfully crafted sci-fi chiller Alien , he knew he couldn’t make a horror movie that would come close to matching the greatness of Scott’s masterpie


Keanu Reeves doing the majority of his own stunts meant that the editor wasn’t beholden to cutting on stunt doubles and could linger on takes for longer than the average Hollywood action movie. As a result, John Wick ’s action scenes are much more immediate and visceral. The fights have the kind of clarity that gets lost when editors have to cut between stars and their stunt doub