Fight Scenes

Ong Bak 2 clip is ouchy

Sure, when Tony Jaa does it it's cool, but when I knee someone in the head it's "not welcome in the game of netball". Typical!

Top 50 Movie Fight Scenes

"How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?" The wise words of one Tyler Durden, and a maxim we live by here at TheShiznit. The fifty scenes celebrated in this article represent the finest fights in cinema history, the almighty showdowns that shook the Earth to its very core. Featuring men, women, dino...

Review: Unleashed

Jet Li. He's not had the best of luck since he came to Hollywood to make the big dollar. Lethal Weapon 4? Imagine the shame of allowing yourself to get beaten up by Mad Max when you know you could kick his scrawny ex-alcoholic misogynist fundamentalist ass without even trying. The One? Sub Matrix silliness. Here's a clue - wh...

Review: Hero

Before I go into detail about this DVD, I have a confession to make; I have never, ever liked Martial Arts movies. I never got what the big screaming deal was about seeing an inscrutable hero kick seven shades of unpleasantness out of a gang of remarkably stupid villainous henchmen. Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan...all the...

Review: House Of Flying Daggers

Chavs. There are chavs everywhere. The cinema used to be the last bastion of the adult, untouched by the burberry legions, I'm sure it did. Didn't it? Hordes of sportswear-clad teenagers swarm around the lobby, chattering, giggling and making vaguely threatening gestures to any poor soul who happens to enter their theatre of...

Review: Kill Bill Vol. 2

Not many people in Hollywood would have the audacity to split their latest movie into two parts, but if there's one person we could forgive, it's fanboy favourite Quentin Tarantino. Last September saw the arrival of the first instalment, kicking, screaming and wielding deadly Hattori Hanzo steel. Now Volume Two has arrived, bu...

Review: Kill Bill Vol. 1

Whether you're inclined to believe Harvey Weinstein's view that it was too good to be slimmed down, or the general consensus (that we're being forced to pay twice to see what is essentially just the one movie), Kill Bill has been unceremoniously chopped in two parts - one Eastern in style, one Western. Volume One is Tarantino's...