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Best/favorite actions scenes ever?

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slackerinabox

Lifer
Title says it all, and I'm obviously NOT thinking there's only one answer..

My recent favorite:

Man from Nowhere - Final knife fight: (video contains spoilers):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8LooQRJcYI

Cathartic, operatic, and fantastically brutal end to a slow-burn of a movie. The cruel efficiency is also something that reminds me of Woo in his prime, but coming from Korea it soars with the added revenge-obsessed culture subtext (not judging the culture, Old Boy's my favorite movie of all time)

Other favorite:
Old Boy hall beat down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufss5ot_vGE

Drunken Master 2: the whole damn movie
 
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The bank heist shootout from Heat, also the highway scene from Matrix: Reloaded
Saving Private Ryan is one of the all time best!
 
I thought the Matrix 1 fight scenes were all good. Mainly because they were done in a style that was new to a big budget US movie. (I had seen the same style in some Hong Kong Movies, but they were all done in low budget movies (by US standards).
 
Some already mentioned

Heat downtown shootout
Saving Private Ryan Normandy sequence
Bourne Ultimatum Fistfight with Desh in Algeria (this is the most realistic fight I've ever seen)
Collateral Alleyway pistol draw
Tony Jaa movies, like the whole thing
 
Game of Death - Bruce Lee
Bruce vs Kareem.

Way of the Dragon - Bruce Lee
Bruce vs Chuck

Fist of Legend - Jet Li (bruce lee original called fist of fury)
Just watch it...pretty cool fight scenes.
 
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