Best Martial Arts Movie

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Alejandro L

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What is your favourite Martial Arts movie. My fave 5 are as follow, not in any particular order:

Enter the Dragon - Bruce Lee's greatest movie out of the 4 he completed.

Police Story - The best Jackie Chan movie ever with the greatest stunts.

Wheels on Meals - Fight scene between Jackie Chan and Benny Urquidez is still one of the finest in movie history.

Project A - Fantastic martial arts epic starring Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Superb martial arts epic with various good sequences especially scene between Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi.


Fist of Legend starring Jet Li is on BBC1 tonight.
 
I always liked:-

Bruce Lee:
All of them, but expecially Fist of Fury
(would love to have seen Game of Death done as Bruce intended, with the seven level pagoda fight)

Jackie Chan:
The Young Master (duff story, but excellent action)
Drunken Master

Jet Li:
Once Upon a Time in China 1 - the end fight scene on ladders is fantastic
Iron Monkey

Sammo Hung:
Magnificent Butcher

Tony Jaa:
Really looking forward to Ong-Bak being released on DVD (I missed it in the cinema, but read the reviews & saw the trailers)
 
For action, and forgetting everything else, Ong Bak is just wonderful, loved the action since I saw it back in 2003, and the second Tony Jaa movie Tom Yum Goong just looks amazing, will hopefully see it in september.

Others I enjoy, including sub genres like wuxia, are:

Hero
House of Flying Daggers
Enter The Dragon
Iron Monkey
Police Story, Super Cop
Project A
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Unleased/Danny The Dog(for action)
Kiss of the Dragon
The Five Deadly Venoms
Kung Fu Hustle(going to be more action in the sequel)
Shaolin Soccer
Twins Effects 1 and 2(yes I liked them!)
House of Fury(fun martial arts, plus Josie Ho is in it so bla)
Once Upon A Time In China 1 and 2
New Police Story
The Storm Riders
Armour of God
Naked Weapon
So Close

JadeWarrior looks amazing, can't wait to see it, first martial arts/kung fu film from Finland.

Lots more I like.
 
All the fight scenes in Bruce Lee movies are excellent.

The twin nunchakus and fight with Chuck Norris in Way of the Dragon.

All his fight scenes in Game of Death. The 40 minute original print is how this should be watched rather than the poorly compiled Golden Harvest one which use inserts from his other movies and lookalike actors.

His fight with Robert Baker in Fist of Fury.

The underground fight in Enter the Dragon and the final battle.
 
Any movie chreographed by Yuen Woo Ping is pretty good.

Matrix
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Kung Fu Hustle
Unleashed
Kill Bill
Iron Monkey
Fist of Legend

Looking forward to his next movie with Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh.
 
bruce lee - enter the dragon
jet li - fist of legend (his new film looks extremely good though)
jackie chan - police story 1&2
brandon lee - rapid fire
jean claude van damme - blood sport or kickboxer

ralph macchio karate kid trilogy (only joking) lol
 
ONG BAK - was incredible! Tony Ja is as good as Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee and Jet Li combined! He didn't even use any wires to do all those flips, kicks and stunts. The bit where he slides under the car amazes me everytime I see it.

TOM YUM GOONG - Will be incredible. It contains a 4-minute, single-shot fight scene. Tony Ja doesn't use any wires again.

Before I saw Ong Bak, these were my favourites:
The Young Master
Drunken Master 2
Fist Of Legend
Police Story 1 and 2
The Matrix
 
Jackie Chan and Jet Li's earlier work is soo much better than their hollywood outings.

Jackie Chan is much better in his original Hong Kong movies such as Police Story and Project A, his acting is very good and the dialogue is also very clever and witty.
 
The Big Boss is my favorite Bruce Lee movie!

All of his 4 completed movies are great, but his Warnar Bros. movie "Enter the Dragon" is sooo overated, compared to his rest.
 
Enter The Dragon has less humour than Way of The Dragon, Big Boss and Fist of Fury but I feel the fight choreography is some of Bruce's finest work.

It was also his first big budget hollywood movie, shame he died before he could make any more.
 
Humor?? - Nowhere near in the league of that joker Jackie Chan though. Which is good.

I like the Big Boss the best, because I guess I like the gruesome dealings in the Ice Factory and we watch Bruce's naive on-screen character slowly turn into the superstar that he became. I also though this movie actually showed his range as an actor, while not in the action sequences.

As for Enter the Dragon, I just don't like it as much as the rest of his movies. I don't know why. Maybe it's because it has a big budget and has lost just some what I would call authenticity. Also it doesn
 
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