Any other movies with fight scenes as good as this one?

oh yes indeed, chech out Donnie Yen's latest movie, Flashpoint aka Dao Huo Xian. It's a prequel of sorts to SPL, and the fighting scenes are the best bar none.

The ending is a full 15 minute non-stop brawl with a mixture of Commando Sambo, Capoeira and Wushu all blended into what Donnie calls "Practical Fighting". Or somehting like that.

I'm absolutely serious about LEGEND OF THE WOLF. The style Yen used there is just as legitimate as any other filmic martial art style. They're ALL constructed the way you mentioned. Cut Cut Cut Cut. Read David Bordwell's Planet Hong Kong and you'll learn all about the rather specific style of action scene construction used by HK choreographers, directors and editors, which is much less varied than people might want to think, especially if all they've seen are the usual Jet Li/Jackie Chan actioners, although even those adhere to the same rules. Some directors may cut on different beats, they may use longer individual shots (we're talking nanoseconds here) or they may even ADD a little camera trickery on top of it all (like swish panning, etc.), but Cut Cut Cut Cut is the rule of the day. Actually, it's more of a pause-burst-pause effect in terms of the actual choreography, but in order to give that any kind of momentum, you HAVE to cut cut cut cut. That's what they DO. Donnie Yen just ramped up everything in LEGEND OF THE WOLF. He choreographed faster (look closely at a clean, proper widescreen cut of the film—which is virtually impossible to find— and you'll see there IS in fact a lot happening between those cuts), he edited faster, he probably even undercranked the camera, but so what. He's not the first, but he certainly presented an interesting take on the same old same old. Funny, though, when Tsui Hark does virtually the same thing in the Blade a couple years earlier, people raved that he'd reinvented the wheel.

I absolutely loved The Protector.
It's like the Hard-Boiled of fighting movies.

Star Blazer is crazy the Protector is a fantastic martial arts movie

Flashpoint, although a lesser film than SPL in terms of character and plot, is superior in the fight scenes.

Donnie Yen's choreography in Flashpoint is absolutely breathtaking, especially the final fight between him and Collin Chou. So far the gold standard of martial arts fights, barring none.

Dragon Tiger Gate is stylistically different, it being based on a manga comic after all, but still visually interesting.

The Ip Man movies with Donnie Yen also have excellent fight scenes, but I guess Flashpoint spoiled me. I can no longer watch martial arts movies without thinking why they didn't include MMA. Such is life.



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