Fight the power!

Today I thought I would take the time to list some of the best kind of fight scenes from movies. Just "regular" fighting so no battle scenes or war-scale stuff (and similar), but not just martial art fights but rather some cool and memerable violent fight/brawl scenes from different movies.


Oldboy

 My first one is probably the most artistically and well made fight scen I've ever seen. Shot in a single take and with a high level of realism compared to most other similar ones. From an asian and not very well known movie called "Oldboy"

Rocky IV.

Not the most beautiful and artistically well made fight but one of the most epic movie moments of all time. Rock - the american hero against the evil soviet fighter Drago. Ridiculous in many ways but I love it anyhow.

Sherlock Holmes
Guy Richie's Sherlock Holmes is not the one we are used to. Seeing Holmes in a cagefight feels kind of strange, like a teletubbie wrestling an alligator. What makes me like this though is how his intelligence is incorporated, even here in the most no-brain environment he can use his intellect and beat his opponent. And of course a very well made and "beautiful" slow-mo scene, enabled by modern day technology. What modern day movies lack in genuinity they make up for in visual effects, for bad and for good, in this example I think for good.

Troy

It's not often we see a spear duel so this fight is somewhat spectacular. I also like how thay incorporated the greek sophisticated techniques with the shield and all that. Not to mention the emotions infused to the moment, the good guy has become the bad guy and much is happening at once. A very important moment in the movie to express myself shortly.

The Matrix

How can we have a list like this without the matrix?
The scene I shose out of all the possible ones actually includes very little fighting, it's more a shootout. I can't explain why I like this scene more than that it's spectacular and over the top, just like it should be.

Way of the dragon
Chuck norris aka "mr hairy chest" vs bruce lee in the possibly most epic fight of all time, do I really need to say more?

Jackie Chan

Just in general Jackie Chan's fight scenes are awesome. I love how he always uses objects around him and there are almost always some portion of humor in his fights. The scene I shose shows this.

Star Wars

One of the best movie trilogies of all time also has some of the best fight scenes.

So those were all I could think of right now, I hope you found this list interesting and that you enjoyed it :)

Other movies with a lot of good fighting worth mentioning are:

Crouching tiger hidden dragon
Kill Bill
Fight Club
Underworld
Mortal Combat
Ong Bak
Gladiator
Safe House
The book of eli
Kung fu panda ;)
Blade
Etc etc...
 
Spartacus (tv-series)

All movies with:

Jet Li
Jason Statham
Jean Claude van Damme