The Deathblade stays human throughout its attacks, but that doesn't make this Lost 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
An action movie is perfectly passable if it has a couple of fistfights and explosions and a wisecracking hero, but the very best movies that the genre has to offer go above and beyond with visceral camerawork, breathtaking stunts, and sharp storytelling driven by action. Directors like John Woo and James Cameron have brought an artfulness to action cinema that legitimized the ge
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
Scorpion Spring tells the story of two downtrodden men who combine resources and hit the road together along the United States and Mexico border. Molina plays a French actor named Denis Brabant, and Patrick McGaw co-stars as the American Zac Cr
Swelter tries hard to be an edgy contemporary Western , but it falls very, very short of its goal. This heist film stars Lennie James as a former professional thief turned small-town sheriff who is hunted down by his former breth
In his short scene, Molina's character scolds Donnie for being repeatedly late and not making his sale goals, ultimately firing Donnie for his insubordination. Donnie later steals money from Solomon Solomon's s
The internet blew up over the news that British actor Alfred Molina is reprising his role as Doctor Octopus in the forthcoming Spider-Man 3 . When he isn't playing a mad scientist with tentacled, mechanical appendixes, Molina brings his offbeat approach to everything from indie neo-Westerns to animated Bible films to classic action-adventure fli
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ work on Raiders of the Lost Ark , harking back to the pulpy adventure serials of the 1930s, resulted in one of the most timeless, unique, and entertaining entries in the entire ge
Park Chan-wook’s neo-noir revenge thriller Oldboy is a must-see for fans of fight choreography for its iconic hallway sequence alone. The story at large follows a falsely imprisoned man’s attempts to figure out who got him locked up, but in one particularly brutal scene, he takes on a legion of henchmen alone in a hall
While Thomas Jane's character Todd Parker prepares to rob Jackson (with Mark Walberg's Dirk Diggler and John C. Reilly's Reed Rothchild along for visit the up coming webpage ride), Jackson goes on a speed-induced monologue about his new, awesome mixtape. Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl" drones on in the background as the scene reaches a violent cli
It isn’t uncommon for older movies to use miniature models and sets to pull off complex action sequences. Lucas did this numerous times in the original Star Wars trilogy since CGI was still being fully developed, but the same thing was done for Raiders of the Lost Ark . Several miniature sets were built. Not really to film scenes, but to expedite film
Having already become famous for his previous collaborations with Spielberg and Lucas, composer John Williams seemed like a no-brainer to helm the score for Indiana Jones in 1981. What makes his work on Raiders truly incredible is that, even when audiences expect his usual greatness, he delivers something even more spell-bind
The whole melee is shot in a single long take tracking back and forth through the hallway. The fight doesn’t end because Dae-su manages to kill all the bad guys; they all just become too exhausted to keep getting back up, which is much more realis
At the 73rd Academy Awards, Crouching Tiger ’s 10 Oscar nods set a record for the most nominations for a non-English-language movie. It has some of the most stunning visuals in action cinema, courtesy of cinematographer Peter
Thanks to Spielberg’s sharp direction, Ben Burtt’s exaggerated, old-timey sound effects, and the impeccable work of a stunt team led by Ford’s stunt double Vic Armstrong, Raiders ’ fight scenes are endlessly rivet
Inspired by the classics of the martial arts genre – particularly the blood-drenched productions of the Shaw Brothers’ studio – Quentin Tarantino made his stamp as an action director in his fourth film, Kill Bill . Uma Thurman stars as the Bride, an ex-assassin who seeks vengeance against the former colleagues who left her for d