Best Martial Arts movies evar..? list them.

I would like to know what is the Best martial arts movie in terms of sheer action.. wicked choreography, and as little crouching tiger hidden dragon wirework as possible.

my personal fave is Drunken Master.. anyone know of some other movies like that?

I just saw a thai film called Chocolate...AMAZING!

The fight scenes are epic.

The acting is pretty solid

And the story is moving.

And holy crap, the last fight scene?!?! EPIC!

Trust me guys, you have GOT to see this movie. Its both incredibly fun and amazingly heart warming and sad and feel good at the same time. You might even call it the Shawshank Redemption of asian martial arts movies.

Ninja Assassin

I kid I kid :P

I would like to know what is the Best martial arts movie in terms of sheer action.. wicked choreography, and as little crouching tiger hidden dragon wirework as possible.

my personal fave is Drunken Master.. anyone know of some other movies like that?

Renzokucant

The Enforcer
Fist of Legend
Enter the Dragon

Unleashed.

Jet Li

Morgan Freeman

Best? I don't know, but Jackie Chan's Police Story 1 and 2 are pretty good. Jackie Chan's Project A is, too.

Jet Li's Fist of Legend is pretty high up there.

Epic

legend of the drunken master, never saw the 78. and isn't chocolate a fruity johnny depp movie >.>Renzokucant

Ong Bak.

If it just didn't have the story, it would be the best movie ever :P

kiss of the dragons fight scenes were fairly good, what else....rush hour??

Most of the good martial arts movies were from the 80's to early 90's. Nowadays cgi and camera cuts can make anyone look like they know what they're doing.

kiss of the dragons fight scenes were fairly good, what else....rush hour??

boxofwonder

Most of the good martial arts movies were from the 80's to early 90's. Nowadays cgi and camera cuts can make anyone look like they know what they're doing.

xionvalkyrie

• Sha Po Lang (AKA Killzone)
• Drunken Master 2
• Flashpoint
• Yes, Madam!
• Martial Club
• The 36th Chamber
• Mystery of Chess Boxing
• Dirty Ho
• Fist of The White Lotus
• Fist of Legend
• My Young Auntie
• Legendary Weapons of Kung Fu
• Dragons Forever
• Ip Man
• Pedicab Driver
• Dreadnought

That's a handful of good solid stuff! Sorry I can't provide any links to sample fights but I'm at work and I'm unable to do so.

Once Upon A Time in China 1, 2, & 3
Iron Monkey
Prodigal Son
Hero - has a great scene with Donnie Yen

While Jackie Chan may be a very accomplished Chinese acrobat/actor/stuntman, Donnie Yen and Jet Li are true kung fu and Tai chi masters. Jackie's best movies, IMO, are his early Hong Kong cop movies, like Police Story with Bridgette Lin. You can really see his athletic and acrobatic prowess in these films.

Even though you didn't want any wire-fu films, you should consider watching these:
Swordsman 2, starring Jet Li & Bridgette Lin
The East is Red
The Bride with White Hair
The Dragon Chronicles: The Maidens of Heavenly Mountain

Enter the Dragon is THE martial arts movie. I mean come on, it has Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris!D_Battery

I think you mean "Way of the Dragon" instead of "Enter the Dragon." Bruce fights Chuck at the Roman Colosseum in the climatic fight scene.

Bloodsport /threadwrfade82

Hell yea.

"O. K. U.S.A.!"

Most of the good martial arts movies were from the 80's to early 90's. Nowadays cgi and camera cuts can make anyone look like they know what they're doing.

xionvalkyrie

The martial arts shots in the 80s and 90s were also manipulated through technology, though. When Sammo Hung shot wing chun sequences, he manipulated the shots by increasing the frames per second, which was considered very innovative in the genre at the time.

Ong bak is a great movie with some really cool fight sequences , it stars Muay thai fighter Tony Jaa TheAtheos

I like Ong Bak. Especially the translations for the various muay thai forms: "Elephant hitting face", "Going to meet a friend", and so forth. Great stunts too.

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Most of the good martial arts movies were from the 80's to early 90's. Nowadays cgi and camera cuts can make anyone look like they know what they're doing.

Im_single

I bet the safety considerations for the stuntmen where ever that film was shot were alot more lenient than the norm. He hit the dude with a staff at 100%, you could see the slight deformation and everything.

SPL: Sha Po Lang has some of the fastest fights I have ever seen.

Kung Fu Hustle is a nice parody/homage to the classic Hong Kong martial arts film

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Hero are the two best wuxia movies I've seen

Fearless and Ip Man are two awesome biopics

Enter the Dragon is THE martial arts film

Jackie Chan's martial arts action category: Police Story, Dragons Forever, Who am I?, Drunken Master, Armour of God

Ong Bak for the sick combination of stuntwork and martial arts.

Fist of Legend
Enter the Dragon

spawnassasin

to all the people that said Ong Bak...go see Chocolate right now.

you can stream it off Netflix

what martial art is that one featuring?

to all the people that said Ong Bak...go see Chocolate right now.

you can stream it off Netflix

mrbojangles25

Kung Fu Hustle ftwAgent-Zero

haha i love that one

its like a cartoon and martial arts movie wrapped into one

to all the people that said Ong Bak...go see Chocolate right now.

you can stream it off Netflix

mrbojangles25

Yahhr! Nice recommendation (whoops I forgot Prodigal Son myself) but I've owned a copy of Chocolate for a while now. A little slow in the getting going but I greatly admire how the loooooooong series of fights in the end were a throw back to the rough and ugly days of the martial arts and gung fu films of Hong Kong in the '80s when stunt men seemed to be doing things so risky that you were almost sure that they all died or at least horribly injured.

The Protector or Chocolate. I love Tony Jaa movies (or movies he just had a hand in, like Chocolate).

Every single Bruce Lee film

The Protector-Pure awesome fight scenes

Crow Zero-A story about a school full of bad kids who know martial arts and fight all the time? Hell yes i'll watch it.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior

The Protector (Tom Yum Goong)

Chocolate

Kung Fu Hustle

Hero

No one has said The Matrix yet. Jet Li's Fearless is good too but im kinda tired of the extreme wire work he always does.Kurushio

Indeed Jet Li is very good and one of the quickest out there but much like Jing Wu (another great martial artist) he can't seem to find good vehicles to display his talent these days. I thought Li's "Fearless" and Jaa's "Tom Yum Goong (The Protector)" to both be fairly mediocre affairs only a handful of redeeming points contained within their celluloid walls.

The One Armed Swordsman, Sonny Chiba's The Street Fighter, Fist of Legend, and Shogun's Samurai are among my favorites.

Their are too many to name but here are a few of my favorite.

Ong Bak

Fist of Legend

Kiss of the Dragon

Enter The Dragon

Unleashed

Drunking Monkey

I can go on and on, I'm a huge martial arts movie fan, as well as horror.

There's so many it's hard to choose just a few, but some of my personal favorites: the Police Story Series, Drunken Master (the Original), Hardboiled...

[QUOTE="Kurushio"]No one has said The Matrix yet. Jet Li's Fearless is good too but im kinda tired of the extreme wire work he always does.Lord_Daemon

Indeed Jet Li is very good and one of the quickest out there but much like Jing Wu (another great martial artist) he can't seem to find good vehicles to display his talent these days. I thought Li's "Fearless" and Jaa's "Tom Yum Goong (The Protector)" to both be fairly mediocre affairs only a handful of redeeming points contained within their celluloid walls.

I think Jing Wu has has had a better time than Jet Li in movies that really displayed his skills and talents (all in such a short amount of time as well) Fearless would have been great if it was for the cinematography.

Also, for me, Protector wasn't mediocre, it was just awful :P Pure one sided demonstrations. Title should have been called, "Look at Tony Jaa Pull Off Those Sweet Moves On The Dummies!"

Also, for me, Protector wasn't mediocre, it was just awful :P Pure one sided demonstrations. Title should have been called, "Look at Tony Jaa Pull Off Those Sweet Moves On The Dummies!"

martialbullet

I was actually being nice since I'm on a public board and not talking amongst martial arts film friends. But indeed...it was a bad film -- laughably bad if you will. I generally tell people you can just look up that church fight against the Capoeira fellow who got injured so they had to cut it short and that's pretty much all you need to watch of the film. Of course if you want to fall out of your chair with laughter I suppose you could stick around near the end and watch Nathan Jone's lackey throw a baby elephant through a window! :lol:

*Fight scene sample in the links*

Police Story

Magnificent Butcher

Millionaire's Express

Tiger Cage 2

Sha Po Lang

Just to name a few....

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Also, for me, Protector wasn't mediocre, it was just awful :P Pure one sided demonstrations. Title should have been called, "Look at Tony Jaa Pull Off Those Sweet Moves On The Dummies!"

Lord_Daemon

I was actually being nice since I'm on a public board and not talking amongst martial arts film friends. But indeed...it was a bad film -- laughably bad if you will. I generally tell people you can just look up that church fight against the Capoeira fellow who got injured so they had to cut it short and that's pretty much all you need to watch of the film. Of course if you want to fall out of your chair with laughter I suppose you could stick around near the end and watch Nathan Jone's lackey throw a baby elephant through a window! :lol:

I enjoyed The Protector not because of the fight scenes, but because of the simple but poignant connection Tony Jaa's character had with his childhood Elephant. I thought that was a nice touch. Cheesy, but nice. That's probably the only reason I enjoy the film, however. Stern and stoic films such as Legend of the Black Scorpion and Curse of the Golden Flower, however, are at the opposite end of the spectrum. Beautiful cinematography and choreography, but utterly terrible characters and emotional impact.