The Best Movie Fight Scenes

Tsui Hark is one of the most overrated directors ever. Most often, his movies are pretentious, messy and sometimes outright stinking bad. However, every once in a blue moon, he got a spark of genius and makes a film so good it completely overshadows his other failures.
The Blade (Dao) is such a film. Re-imagining the classic one-armed swordsman story, the plot is simple and won't win any oscar but it has the merit of using the perspective of a girl, and a non-asskicking one at that. However, what makes this movie work is the atmosphere, the villains and the fighting. Tsui Hark shows us a dark, harsh world full of danger and decadence. It's a far cry from the romanticized martial world we are so familiar with in those old-schooled SB flicks.

The sword fights are truly ingenious. Using genuinely brilliant camera movements, Tsui Hark was able to impregnate the action scenes with such speed and fury as never before seen.
The final fight is, quite simply put, a masterpiece of the genre. You've never seen anything like it before and you probably won't be seeing anything like it again soon.

Dark, gritty, realistic and spectacularly inventive, Dao is something unique in the genre that everyone oughtta have seen at least once.

Download:

Fight 1: One-armed man vs masked bandits

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CUG8P94Z (52.89MB)

Fight 2: One-armed man vs Fei Lung (Flying Dragon)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LBSFWQ2G (104MB)