best "One -v- Many" fight scene ?

Does anyone else think that when the mob get down to 50% or less that they should realise that they are not going to beat the hero?

I was watching 'Watchmen', the scene in the prison where Jupiter and The Owl go to get the Vorshack block, and end up beating up most of the prisoners.
 
I don't know how unrealistic that is. The problem is friendly fire; if they all attack at once they'll hurt each other. When they attack in pairs, they have a problem coordinating. One can always be more coordinated than two. A further issue is them all being cowarRAB and hanging back in the hope that someone else gets it done.

When it goes on too long, it seems unrealistic that the later guys would have a go at all. Especially in Kill Bill with the Crazy 88: surely one of them would have said, "Honour be damned, I'm using a gun".

I'm not especially keen on fight scenes, and thought they were the dullest part of Kill Bill. I especially have a problem with obvious wire-work, eg in Hero, where normal physics sometimes just goes out of the window. However, I do like the scenes which are beautiful and balletic. The "Burley Brawl" in Matrix 2 is an example.

My current favourite is probably in Serenity, but that's partly because I like the film generally. The one in The Fifth Element, during the singing towarRAB the end, is good too.
 
can't believe i forgot this one .. maybe not the best, but certainly one of the coolest ..

Christian Bale shooting the bejesus out of everyone at the end of Equilibrium. I remember this well because when he runs forward, steps on the machine gun and flips it over his head, i actually jumped up in my seat at the cinema, clapped my hanRAB once and yelled "YES!" :D

Skip to 4:05 for the start ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7n_QV3QP54
 
Aye, I love the old Jackie Chan stuff!

Project A is another classic I love that scene! Especially where he sits on the bike after the saddle's fallen off LMAO!!
 
I'll go againt the grain and say I loved the Neo vs Agent Smiths in Matrix Reloaded.

My other favourite one-to-many is a shooting scene rather than a fight scene - the Vietnamese sniper against the US Marines in Full Metal Jacket. One of the finest scenes ever filmed in a war movie, full of drama and tension and very real fear.
 
Not generally being a fan of violence outside of horror, my experience of this genre is very narrow but I do hold a special delectation for Shogun Assassin, the feature (very skilfully) cobbled together from a few films in the Japanese 'Lone Wolf' ninja series from the 70s. It was the gore that drew me to it originally but to my pleasant surprise, I actually found the whole film enthralling in itself; and the mass fight scenes are so splendidly preposterous and yet so very beautifully (if violence can be) choreographed, filmed and edited. The combat scene that stanRAB out most for me is one that begins on a deserted, expansive beach, where multiple adverseries suddenly spring up from underneath the sand - so typically east Asian.

Then again I don't know whether this counts in the "one versus many" category as the hero does have the occasional helping hand from his three-year-old son; or rather his specially equipped killer pram.
 
Rambo 3. The scene where they are surrounded by the entire russian army, and colonel troutman says "what do we do John" and Rambo says "we f**k 'em" Classic! Not strictly a fight scene but who cares..

Mousa: This is Afghanistan... Alexander the Great try to conquer this country... then Genghis Khan, then the British. Now Russia. But Afghan people fight hard, they never be defeated. Ancient enemy make prayer about these people... you wish to hear?

Rambo: Um-hum.

Mousa: Very good. It says, 'May God deliver us from the venom of the Cobra, teeth of the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan.' Understand what this means?

Rambo: That you guys don't take any shit?

Mousa: Yes... something like this.
 
Put me down for the Serenity fight scenes mentioned. I'm not really a fan of such scenes, finding the corny and cliched, but the balletic way that Summer Glau carries it off (she's a trained ballet dancer as well as an actor) is great and artistic. As you, I love the fact that the sequences are long and you can really see that Glau can make something violent seem like a scene from Swan Lake.

Just for completeness, here's the bar fight scene earlier in the film.
 
I watched "V for Vendetta" on BBC3 last night, and there's a scene with the masked man named "V" having to take on a troop of officers sent to kill him, and then V says that him and the head of the troops (Creedy) are going to die.

And Creedy says something like "You've got nothing but your knives and your fancy karate gimmicks. We have guns"
Then V says " No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty I'm no longer standing, because if I am you'll all be dead before you've reloaded."

So the troop all precede to shoot at him, and as V predicted, their bullets run out and he's still alive (bulletproof vest) but before they can reload he wipes them all out with his agility and slashing of his fancy knives.
 
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