Top 50 Movie Fight Scenes

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40. CASEY RYBACK vs WILLIAM STRANIX in UNDER SIEGE
Mismatch alert! In the 'finely tuned fighting machine versus decrepit old man' stakes, this is only equalled by Jet Li beating up Bob Hoskins in Unleashed and Sly taking it to John Lithgow in Cliffhanger. However, this is pretty much the best Steven Seagal ever was - watch and try and forget he's now a bloated, twinkie-eating, energy drink-pimping lardass. In fact, Tommy Lee Jones probably has the edge these days. Rematch alert for Under Siege 3!




39. THE NATIVES vs THE DEAD RABBITS in GANGS OF NEW YORK
He might look a tool, with his Mario moustache and his dandy top hat, but Daniel Day-Lewis's Bill the Butcher is a bona fide badass. Compared to him, Liam Neeson's Priest Vallon was always going to come off second best, and so it was, after the Natives and the Dead Rabbits meet in a bloody battle over the Five Points. Striding through the "crusty bitches" he calls enemies, Bill cuts a swathe through the foreign whores until he arrives at Vallon's side, which he promptly sticks a knife into. Fight over.




38. FRANK DUX vs CHONG LI in BLOODSPORT
No fight list would be complete without an appearance from good old JC-VD: the Muscles from Brussels had the world at his mercy in the late '80s, and it's his career high movie that represents him here. As well as Van Damme's obvious physical capabilities, witness also his immense acting skills here, subtly portraying the horrors of blindness while in the middle of a battle. No Oscar win? Man, the Academy need their heads kicked in. And I think I know just the guy to do it...




37. TYRANNOSAURUS REX vs SPINOSAURUS in JURASSIC PARK III
Dino smackdown! Narrowly edging out the T-Rex Vs Velociraptors scrap from the first movie, this epic throwdown between two of history's most frightening lizards (only one of which we're sure existed) shows just how far CG has come in the last few years. Tyson the T-Rex was the pre-match favourite, coming into the bout with a 2-and-0 record, but newcomer Spinosaurus caused a major upset, snapping his opponent's neck with a killer bite. Someone hurry up and make Jurassic Park a reality so we can watch this stuff for real.




36. INDIANA JONES vs ARABIAN SWORDSMAN in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
How to win a fight in one easy step. Legend has it Ford turned up on the Raiders set suffering from a crippling case of dysentery, and unwilling to learn the moves for the fight sequence that was originally pencilled in, he suggested to Spielberg that his character simply shoots his opponent dead. The result is the funniest scene in the movie. Besides, no one wants to see a sweaty, disease-ridden Indiana Jones shit himself during a fight scene.




35. BORAT vs AZAMAT in BORAT
As we've long suspected, guys from the Eastern Bloc know how to fight, and fight dirty. When he emerges from his bath to discover his rotund roomate masturbating over pictures of his new obsession Pamela Anderson, Borat and his foe engage in a deadly wrestling match... which just happens to be naked. The clothes-free rumble continues out into the hotel corridor and into the exhibition suite, in front of hundreds of genuinely shocked attendees. You may need a shower after this.




34. WONG FEI-HUNG vs IRON ROBE YIM in ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA
How do you make an awesome martial arts movie even better? Just add ladders! Jet Li and his opponent Shi-Kwan Yen play the deadliest game of off-ground touch you'll ever see, gracefully leaping from ladder to ladder while attempting to introduce foot to face. This is some of choreographer Yuen Wo-Ping's finest work and certainly one of Li's better battles, although the multi-weapon final showdown in last year's Fearless runs it close.




33. OBI-WAN KENOBI vs ANAKIN SKYWALKER in STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH
How we've waited for this moment... the years spent dreaming... the god-awful fan fiction we pretended not to read... the shitty prequels we sat through... finally, we'd get to see Obi-Wan take on Baby Darth, and by Lord Lucas, we weren't to be disappointed. The emotional crux of the entire prequel trilogy, it pitted Jedi versus Padawan, and a ten minute blur of lightsabers later, only one guy was left standing. Vader got his own back eventually, but seeing him chopped up like shish kebab is a sight that Star Wars fans will never forget.




32. TYLER DURDEN vs NARRATOR
in FIGHT CLUB
Firstly, a spoiler warning - if you've never seen Fight Club, then a) Get the hell of my planet, and b) skip to the next entry. Now all the squares have left, we can talk about Fight Club's awesome final fight, between Ed Norton's hapless narrator and the flipside of his split personality, the Pitt-shaped and entirely imaginary Tyler Durden. We're not quite sure on the mechanics of the whole thing - how exactly does one pull oneself along by the hair? - but it's a jaw-achingly brutal scene, tinged with moments of black comedy, none more so than when Durden starts beating his headspace rival with his own shoe.




31. ROCKY BALBOA vs IVAN DRAGO in ROCKY IV
"If he dies, he dies." Never has one line so succinctly summed up the Reds of Communist Russia - those Nuke-owning commie bastards. Rocky Balboa was the flag-wearing, all-American hero faced with the almost insurmountable challenge of Ivan Drago, Nazi poster-boy and part-time Universal Soldier - it was the Cold War fought in the square circle. Despite taking more blows to the face than Jenna Jameson - you'd think by movie four he'd have learned how to guard - Rocky comes out on top. God bless America. And fuck Russia.



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