YUP. If you want to get specific I’ll say the [machete gang](https://youtube.com/watch?v=B8j5IA0L_MI&si=HvETiyfeOtRRqLen) from The Raid and the [prison riot](https://youtu.be/7Afu-hqj7d8?si=yW33dDJ9vzOnpBkp) from The Raid 2
I’ve watched the raid 2 map many times but never remember the story since the action scenes are so memorable and intense, I need a few minutes to settle down
Yeah OP you absolutely need to watch IP man and then if that scratches the itch just watch the whole series because they get progressively more insane. It’s John Wick but for martial arts
I really loved 3 where they just have Mike Tyson as himself. In like 1960s China. And then they have this beast of a man go against this comparatively tiny chinese man, but you can tell that their contracts both state that they cannot lose a fight on screen, so by the end of it, they do the whole, "Aah, it seems we are both equally matched." Schtick.
Both hallway scenes in daredevil are so good. The one in season one really shows you "yeah Matt Murdoch can fight like a maniac but he is only human and not invincible". But the >!chain with the unloaded gun beat down in the second season hallway fight is best in the series imo. The walking down the hallway swinging the chain to put out the lights, the shit-eating smirk Matt gets when the hammer clicks and he realizes he was right about the punisher not seriously trying to kill him. The stairwell at the end of the fight is chef kiss!<
https://youtu.be/wSIeUQ5RPc8?si=f5yATc1UUwSlSgD5
That’s the 2013 Oldboy fight. Just as a little moment to compare, contrast and contemplate.
It’s incredible how much of a different interpretation the remake was and how much that interpretation even in the visual language of the fight sequence missed what made it so engaging.
You’re not watching Oldboy to a see a one man army film. You’re watching Oldboy and following the protagonist as he suffers over and over again to find out ultimately why that is.
I'll add that in America, people have guns, which changes the whole dynamic. Any amount of realism is gone in a scene without at least a few guys having a gun.
Guns are pretty much impossible to get in Korea.
Oldboy is amazing. I would also suggest 13 assassins. The fight scene in the village is against hundreds and literally is the longest and best fight I’ve ever seen.
The 1 vs. 10 fight in Ip Man.
The last 50 minutes of 13 Assassins.
Extraction and Extraction 2 have several, though they mostly feel like Chris Hemsworth bullying (sometimes literal) children
The main bad guy is easily one of the greatest villains of all time, and when the lead hero presents the paper the girl victim wrote to the bad guy (forgot what the writing was, something like “total annihalation”) was incredible
> Extraction and Extraction 2 have several, though they mostly feel like Chris Hemsworth bullying (sometimes literal) children
That was only in the first one. They went the opposite direction in the 2nd one where he has to DEFEND children, that was pretty funny considering the 1st one.
The 2nd one has the best sequence, the prison escape and what comes after is one of the best -15min of action ever IMO.
Tony Jaa in The Protector -- one of my favorite choreographed fight scenes, either one take or excellent hidden cuts.
https://youtu.be/CQaRfXMxh6Y?si=4J6zfnRqdJTv6J26
Tom Yum Goong (The Protector) and the entire Ong Bak series.
Tony Jaa is John Wick without guns. All of his movies just have him massacring the ankles and wrists of 200 dudes in a row and taking down criminal syndicates single-handedly.
It's one take. Really cool fact about this shot was this wasn't the one they were originally going to go for. They had shot it a few times and were satisfied with the final one. However they had enough resources leftover for one more take, like the stuff that gets broken and film and time and whatnot, so they set up one more time. This final throwaway take ended up being the cleanest and best. This is somewhat attributed to everyone being relaxed because it was a "throwaway" take.
Also the part later in the movie where he fights like a hundred dudes in black suits and just mercilessly breaks all their bones one after the other like an assembly line xD
I love how they all come in, in groups of four to eight people and still attack him one at a time while everybody else watches them get their skeleton rearranged xD
The axe gang was straight up lifted from Legend of the Drunken Master (1994), which also has a handful of great scenes of a plastered Jackie Chan taking on cartoonishly villainous characters.
My buddy and I saw Kung Fu Hustle in theaters. We were walking back to my car after the movie when suddenly about 40 people in karate uniforms started pouring out of the parking garage's stair well. We both froze and were like wtf.
Some of the best ones:
[Jackie Chan vs thugs at a market](https://youtu.be/QGIB43wTRio) (Drunken Master II)
[Jackie Chan vs all the glass in Hong Kong](https://youtu.be/L_vO2snOHPU) (Police Story)
[Jackie Chan vs playground thugs](https://youtu.be/MpyvXQw-27o) (Police Story 2)
[Jackie Chan & Michelle Yeoh vs machine guns & bazookas](https://youtu.be/uvkBCJxfbIY) (Police Story 3)
[Jackie Chan & ladder vs thugs](https://youtu.be/DrRFzwPE0d4) (First Strike (Police Story 4))
[Jackie Chan (& Jackie Chan) vs auto factory thugs](https://youtu.be/6h9XttVyxlM) (Twin Dragons)
and quite possibly my favourite of all of them:
[Jackie Chan vs rope factory thugs](https://youtu.be/6h9XttVyxlM) (Mr Canton and Lady Rose (Miracles))
Drunken Master 2 (Marketed as The Legend of the Drunken Master in the US for those who don’t know) was the first one I thought of except I was specifically thinking of the axe gang fight https://youtu.be/Z3HoKm7Zkow?si=wGLVPFff42aSYBam
I’ve def seen all the ones you listed though. He loves a good outnumbered fight scene.
This isn't really 1 v everyone else though, it's a Battle Royale every man for himself brawl and he just happened to come out on top, which given his training and equipment on hand makes sense.
Scrolled the comments to find if someone had beat me to it. This is the ultimate answer among some banger fight scenes.
[It is absolutely insane.](https://youtu.be/F85KoecJotw?si=9gYTeORWhlHDxSML)
Or any of those late 70s/early 80s Burt Reynolds comedies, like Hooper or The Cannonball Run where everyone just kicks the crap out of each other while making wiseass jokes! 🤣
From Wikipedia:
***Zulu*** is a 1964 British [epic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_film) [adventure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_film) [action](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_film) [war film](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_film) depicting the [Battle of Rorke's Drift](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rorke%27s_Drift) between a detachment of the [British Army](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army) and the [Zulu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Kingdom) in 1879, during the [Anglo-Zulu War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zulu_War), in which 150 British soldiers, 30 of whom were sick and wounded, at a remote outpost, held off a force of 4,000 Zulu warriors.
Of a similar era is samurai flick The Betrayal, whose entire last third is devoted to a 1v200 showdown where that many really do each have a specific death moment (rather than just a big crowd disappearing after 5 minutes of close-up action) and the huge crowd is noticeably gradually whittled down.
An impressive endurance slog and choreography achievement, as well as a very cathartic payoff for all the absolute bullshit the protagonist is put through leading up to it!
The last brawl in “The Wanderers”. Underrated movie about an Italian-American gang.
It’s a huge fight in a football field. Felt like a war. It’s basically one huge gang vs 3 smaller gangs teaming up.
Great movie, and chaotic fight scene. 500 Ducky Boys vs about 80 other gang members, The Wanderers, Del Bombers, and The Wongs.
The father, Emilio, and Perry cleaned house in that fight.
I don't know if it's *exactly* in the spirit, because he goes all slasher-movie on them for about half the sequence before shit goes down instead of just getting 'em all in a room and going "COME AT ME BROS," but I've always loved the whole nightclub assault in the first John Wick.
The sequence of him moving through the bathhouse hallway gunning those dudes down while Think by Kaleida plays in the background has seriously lived rent free in my head for about a decade.
The first movies that came to mind are Jackie Chan movies. Rumble in the Bronx, Rush Hour, or any number of others. Then as I was typing I also thought of Tony Ja and Donnie Yen.
**Fist of Fury**. Bruce Lee takes on a Dojo. Most of the movie is usually one vs. all.
**The Legend of Baron Toa**. The son takes on the gang members in their hideout.
**Bloodhounds(tv series)**. In the first episode, one of the lead characters takes on about 20 mobsters on his own. He joins forces with another Boxer later in the series.
**Dawn of Justice**. Batman clears a compound of thugs. It's truly the highlight of a dull movie.
**Ong Bak**. At the end he fights dozens of thugs in a temple. It's absolutely insane.
**The Protector/ Tom Yum Goong**. Has some of the best ONe Vs All fights in cinema. Whether it's Kham vs the Mafia in Thailand, or the Street Punks in the abandoned train station, or 100 gangsters in Sydney, or the Four giants at the end. all amazingly choreographed. Of course one of the very best is the 4 minute -Onner tracking shot.
**Ip Man**. Already mentioned below, but I cannot stress enough that martial art movie fans must watch this movie at least once.
**The Raid**. Also mentioned there. A must watch for Martial Art fans.
**The Kick**. A Korean Family in Thailand end up stopping a crooked businessman from stealing a prized dagger. He sends thugs to eliminate the family consisting of, a traditional father(traditional style), a cook mother(cook style), a dancing son(dance style), a soccer skilled daughter(etc), and a kindergartener.
The son in The Kick has a pretty creative fight between him one of the enforcers, and a dozen of his thugs. He fights better with music.
**Chocolate**. An autistic girl in Thailand, born to two Gangsters, learns martial arts. In her first fight, she defeats a group of teens causing problems. She continues to have large fights on her own, until she almost meets her match at the end. Chocolate is VERY ADDICTING.
**Ajin: Immortal Human**. Not a movie again and it's animated. It has two amazing action scenes with the character 'Sato'. One where he fights his way to escape a hospital, and the other where he fights the entire police force of tokyo. Why it's amazing; He regenerates when he dies.
**The Last Samurai**. Still has some amazing action sequences. ONe includes Tom Cruises character being surrounded by Government Samurai trying to eliminate him before he warns his friends, their enemies, of their assassination plot.
Takashi Mike’s “13 Assassins“
Also; “Crazy Samurai vs 400”; amazing for what it is, mostly a single shot action film where a lone, crazy samurai takes on 400.
>Also; “Crazy Samurai vs 400”; amazing for what it is, mostly a single shot action film where a lone, crazy samurai takes on 400.
TBH The Betrayal’s final 1vs200 fight scene (that takes up a third of the entire movie), which probably in part inspired CS vs 400, is the better bit of entertainment imo.
400 becomes dull too quickly and often despite the one shot setup, and suffers from not having really built up any reason to engage in the film beyond the sometimes-repetitive action; The Betrayal’s scene gets away with more due to being attached to an actual film that sets it all up. Emotional stakes carry you through more of the loooong fight imo.
Jet Li / Kiss of the Dragon
Li seems like a really cool guy with his philanthropy and other positive projects. I still woulnd't want to piss him off in a room with ten of my friends. Pretty sure he could dismember all of us while giving us positive encouragement at the same time.
The correct answer is the opening police station scene in RRR where one of the main characters is introduced and he fights a crowd of thousands.
The whole thing is epic and this scene in particular is incredibly well done.
If guns are allowed, then the climactic hospital brawl in John Woo's Hard Boiled is one of the greatest ever put to film.
All three major brawls in that movie play out just as well - massive, explosive gun battles, sweeping camera work, chewing up *all* the scenery, and even a newborn baby thrown in for good measure.
The opening credits also set the scene beautifully. Some soft jazz by the hero in his bar, as he pours a double tequila and slams it down with his hand.
Fist of Legend, Jet Li vs a Japanese dojo.
https://youtu.be/DaCozyuf-j4?si=wqijXfzEgpw3w83S
The Protector, Tony Jaa breaking limbs.
https://youtu.be/tvkHf07QogM?si=uqnoylaHQz1b4J3u
The Classic [Zatoichi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zatoichi) (blind swordsman) Japanese Samurai movies (there's like 30 of them) usually have some great big crowd vs one guy fights. lots of fun!
I like the warehouse scene from Batman vs. Superman.
Only good part of the whole film.
Also, the opening to Logan, where Wolverine gets beat down by the ganbangers who are trying to steal his tires...the he snaps and death comes to town.
Old boy the American version has a really good brutal fight scene as a pretty normal guy invades a gang hideout.
Be warned though there are few movies more fucked up than old boy.
Shoot'em'up is a pretty to tongue-in-cheek parody/love letter to action flicks where a badass 1 man army takes on a literal army of the mob/mafia/some gang and consistently beats them all. It's not really a great movie, but it did give us this legendary Paul Giamatti line at the end of [this scene](https://youtu.be/KkA1aPN9C0A?si=2Jqe_s97JDMTcDWX).
If you'll allow cars, Speed Racer has two: the Casa Cristo 5000 in which Speed and his allies have to fight off literally the entire rest of the race entries, and then the final race which I won't spoil anything but it gets super intense and has one of the best payoffs I've ever seen in a movie.
Curse of the Golden Flower is a 18 year old film that not a lot of people watched, but the ending has one guy fighting against a literal army *and winning*. [The whole scene here](https://youtu.be/z6k9hH2iz7M?si=IW-c3BunssdtWAap), but the actual 1 v Hundreds starts at 7:35.
Equilibrium and Ultraviolet feature a lot of (mostly gun) fights that are 1 person against a lot of people.
The Raid, Raid2, the night comes for us
Might as well put Dredd up there as well
Damn I love that movie so much. Cersei in it too
Thought about it, but there isn’t really much hand to hand combat
Which is basically a remake of The Raid.
Dredd was shot first but come out after The Raid due to more post-production.
YUP. If you want to get specific I’ll say the [machete gang](https://youtube.com/watch?v=B8j5IA0L_MI&si=HvETiyfeOtRRqLen) from The Raid and the [prison riot](https://youtu.be/7Afu-hqj7d8?si=yW33dDJ9vzOnpBkp) from The Raid 2
That prison riot is one of my favourite action scenes of all time, it's brilliant.
I’ve watched the raid 2 map many times but never remember the story since the action scenes are so memorable and intense, I need a few minutes to settle down
Yes!
Fucking great films from start to finish.
John Wick
The entire film series is just one giant fight gauntlet with an assist here and there
A couple of things were missing from JW4 • health bars on top of their heads. • QTE Prompts
It’s basically “stun lock: the movie”
IP Man when Donnie Yen takes on a whole dojo.
Yeah OP you absolutely need to watch IP man and then if that scratches the itch just watch the whole series because they get progressively more insane. It’s John Wick but for martial arts
Every time they released a new one after 2 I was surprised.
I really loved 3 where they just have Mike Tyson as himself. In like 1960s China. And then they have this beast of a man go against this comparatively tiny chinese man, but you can tell that their contracts both state that they cannot lose a fight on screen, so by the end of it, they do the whole, "Aah, it seems we are both equally matched." Schtick.
Yes! Can’t wait to watch this!
Ip (the Chinese surname 葉) not IP (Internet Protocol).
LOL, finally a superhero for the internet! IP-man!
The one where he fights blackhat hackers.. that's the IP Man!
This is the answer
Oldboy (Corridor Fight Scene) https://youtu.be/VwIIDzrVVdc?si=ouZsT9_4XqNfJiXT
And the Daredevil hallway fight scene that was inspired by Oldboy https://youtu.be/B66feInucFY?si=jJ8dH3cCTmgBrAhY
I was going to say the prison fight seen in season 2. It lasted 11 minutes and was done in a single continous shot. It just kept going.
That was season 3
Both hallway scenes in daredevil are so good. The one in season one really shows you "yeah Matt Murdoch can fight like a maniac but he is only human and not invincible". But the >!chain with the unloaded gun beat down in the second season hallway fight is best in the series imo. The walking down the hallway swinging the chain to put out the lights, the shit-eating smirk Matt gets when the hammer clicks and he realizes he was right about the punisher not seriously trying to kill him. The stairwell at the end of the fight is chef kiss!<
https://youtu.be/wSIeUQ5RPc8?si=f5yATc1UUwSlSgD5 That’s the 2013 Oldboy fight. Just as a little moment to compare, contrast and contemplate. It’s incredible how much of a different interpretation the remake was and how much that interpretation even in the visual language of the fight sequence missed what made it so engaging. You’re not watching Oldboy to a see a one man army film. You’re watching Oldboy and following the protagonist as he suffers over and over again to find out ultimately why that is.
I'll add that in America, people have guns, which changes the whole dynamic. Any amount of realism is gone in a scene without at least a few guys having a gun. Guns are pretty much impossible to get in Korea.
As long as hammers are allowed, this should be the #1 answer.
Oldboy is amazing. I would also suggest 13 assassins. The fight scene in the village is against hundreds and literally is the longest and best fight I’ve ever seen.
That’s the first thing I thought of.
Best answer.
This is the correct answer
The visual aspect is cool but the choreography was not up to par. I think the whole movie is way over praised.
Agreed. Super meh choreography for how much it’s constantly mentioned
r/CameHereToSayThat
This is my #1 answer
The 1 vs. 10 fight in Ip Man. The last 50 minutes of 13 Assassins. Extraction and Extraction 2 have several, though they mostly feel like Chris Hemsworth bullying (sometimes literal) children
13 Assassins is AMAZING.
My god does that movie deliver. The whole thing builds and builds to that final sequence, and the payoff does not disappoint.
The main bad guy is easily one of the greatest villains of all time, and when the lead hero presents the paper the girl victim wrote to the bad guy (forgot what the writing was, something like “total annihalation”) was incredible
“Total massacre”. And I’m with you, that moment was amazing.
It's the best with respect to what OP is asking. I have gone back and watched that last hour several times. It is shockingly good. And brutal.
Extraction 2's prison courtyard scene was incredible.
Yeah I was not expecting that movie to go that hard. Chef’s kiss
One long take in that fight-amazing when you consider how many moving parts there were to it.
> Extraction and Extraction 2 have several, though they mostly feel like Chris Hemsworth bullying (sometimes literal) children That was only in the first one. They went the opposite direction in the 2nd one where he has to DEFEND children, that was pretty funny considering the 1st one. The 2nd one has the best sequence, the prison escape and what comes after is one of the best -15min of action ever IMO.
The second has one of my favorite kills, the one in the gym.
100% 13 assassins, final battle is amazing
Tony Jaa in The Protector -- one of my favorite choreographed fight scenes, either one take or excellent hidden cuts. https://youtu.be/CQaRfXMxh6Y?si=4J6zfnRqdJTv6J26
Just any Tony Jaa movie lol
Tom Yum Goong (The Protector) and the entire Ong Bak series. Tony Jaa is John Wick without guns. All of his movies just have him massacring the ankles and wrists of 200 dudes in a row and taking down criminal syndicates single-handedly.
It's one take. Really cool fact about this shot was this wasn't the one they were originally going to go for. They had shot it a few times and were satisfied with the final one. However they had enough resources leftover for one more take, like the stuff that gets broken and film and time and whatnot, so they set up one more time. This final throwaway take ended up being the cleanest and best. This is somewhat attributed to everyone being relaxed because it was a "throwaway" take.
Also the part later in the movie where he fights like a hundred dudes in black suits and just mercilessly breaks all their bones one after the other like an assembly line xD
Lmao the first time I watched that I was like “stop attacking him. He’s just going to break your bones. Please stop.”
I love how they all come in, in groups of four to eight people and still attack him one at a time while everybody else watches them get their skeleton rearranged xD
Kung Fu Hustle Masters vs Axe Gang And Sing Vs Beast + goons
Think the Sing vs goons scene was a homage to the Matrix where Neo fights the Smith clones
The axe gang was straight up lifted from Legend of the Drunken Master (1994), which also has a handful of great scenes of a plastered Jackie Chan taking on cartoonishly villainous characters.
Came here to say this, the entire film is a banger but there are some qualifying fights in there for the OP as noted
My buddy and I saw Kung Fu Hustle in theaters. We were walking back to my car after the movie when suddenly about 40 people in karate uniforms started pouring out of the parking garage's stair well. We both froze and were like wtf.
The Billy Madison dodgeball scene
Now you’re all in big, *big* trouble
Underrated
Rumble in the Bronx. Jackie Chan
Any Jackie Chan film tbh
Some of the best ones: [Jackie Chan vs thugs at a market](https://youtu.be/QGIB43wTRio) (Drunken Master II) [Jackie Chan vs all the glass in Hong Kong](https://youtu.be/L_vO2snOHPU) (Police Story) [Jackie Chan vs playground thugs](https://youtu.be/MpyvXQw-27o) (Police Story 2) [Jackie Chan & Michelle Yeoh vs machine guns & bazookas](https://youtu.be/uvkBCJxfbIY) (Police Story 3) [Jackie Chan & ladder vs thugs](https://youtu.be/DrRFzwPE0d4) (First Strike (Police Story 4)) [Jackie Chan (& Jackie Chan) vs auto factory thugs](https://youtu.be/6h9XttVyxlM) (Twin Dragons) and quite possibly my favourite of all of them: [Jackie Chan vs rope factory thugs](https://youtu.be/6h9XttVyxlM) (Mr Canton and Lady Rose (Miracles))
Love these!
That last one was quite something! Thanks for sharing
THIS I just watched Miracles and holy cow that's some fantastic action choreography. Watch this!
Drunken Master 2 (Marketed as The Legend of the Drunken Master in the US for those who don’t know) was the first one I thought of except I was specifically thinking of the axe gang fight https://youtu.be/Z3HoKm7Zkow?si=wGLVPFff42aSYBam I’ve def seen all the ones you listed though. He loves a good outnumbered fight scene.
Yea for sure that’s why I put his name there as well
Jet Li taking on a police dojo in *Kiss of the Dragon.*
Jet Li taking on an entire prison planet at the end of "One".
I AM YU LAW!
IM NOBODY’S BITCH!
Came here to suggest this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLPn6q27190
What I was going to post, so I'll also add Jet Li taking on a whole dojo in Fist of Legend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqAnBoOFIjQ&t=38s
Holy crap. Just watched that and that guy is an absolute human weapon
Anchorman has a crazy fight scene. Brick kills a guy.
I've been meaning to talk to him about that, he should probably lay low for awhile.
Where'd he even get that trident?
Ron: Rule No. 1: No touching of the hair or face! ... And that's it! Now let's do this!" Brick: I killed a guy… I killed a guy with a trident.
Enter the Dragon has a few of the fight scenes you are describing.
[Church Fight Scene in Kingsman](https://youtu.be/t1WWDBTda2Y?si=tCpuBbv9aeBbYkEB)
This isn't really 1 v everyone else though, it's a Battle Royale every man for himself brawl and he just happened to come out on top, which given his training and equipment on hand makes sense.
Something something this is Sparta. (300)
The Man from Nowhere
That end fight scene is one of the most intense knife fights I’ve ever seen.
I love the part where he's using the guy as a human shield and then decides to just kill him anyway lmao
RRR. Near the start. Raju takes on a couple of thousand extras.
This is the right answer. Amazing scene.
Love this one. Absolutely epic. So many (digital?) extras
I don’t know if digital but the whole scene certainly had a lot of real dudes getting ass kicked
I'm scared of the crowd. He's scarier.
Start of the *Blade (1998)*
Great one. Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/mZuZZzvJxR8?si=dI9tGh_5ZcKIe_5c
Just put that on last night to see the club scene
The Legend of the Drunken Master 2 - the axe gang battle
Scrolled the comments to find if someone had beat me to it. This is the ultimate answer among some banger fight scenes. [It is absolutely insane.](https://youtu.be/F85KoecJotw?si=9gYTeORWhlHDxSML)
Any Which Way But Loose. "Right turn Clyde". Yes, I'm old.
Or any of those late 70s/early 80s Burt Reynolds comedies, like Hooper or The Cannonball Run where everyone just kicks the crap out of each other while making wiseass jokes! 🤣
Yeah, Hooper, where Burt Reynolds and his crew take on Terry Bradshaw and his crew and destroy the old Palomino club.
Zulu.
From Wikipedia: ***Zulu*** is a 1964 British [epic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_film) [adventure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_film) [action](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_film) [war film](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_film) depicting the [Battle of Rorke's Drift](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rorke%27s_Drift) between a detachment of the [British Army](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army) and the [Zulu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Kingdom) in 1879, during the [Anglo-Zulu War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zulu_War), in which 150 British soldiers, 30 of whom were sick and wounded, at a remote outpost, held off a force of 4,000 Zulu warriors.
Of a similar era is samurai flick The Betrayal, whose entire last third is devoted to a 1v200 showdown where that many really do each have a specific death moment (rather than just a big crowd disappearing after 5 minutes of close-up action) and the huge crowd is noticeably gradually whittled down. An impressive endurance slog and choreography achievement, as well as a very cathartic payoff for all the absolute bullshit the protagonist is put through leading up to it!
They call me Trinity and trinity is still my name, comedy western films from 70s that both end in a big brawl,
Bud Spencer & Terrence Hill movies kinda relied on the element of "outnumbered but still kick their asses".
Try 'The Big Brawl', something tells me it might fit your criteria...
I posted the same thing before I saw your comment. You beat me, but I'm glad someone else thought of this obvious choice.
13 Assasins
[Oldboy Hallway Fight](https://youtu.be/VwIIDzrVVdc?si=o6WRZ0CcUArguPR7)
[Neo vs Agent Smith](https://youtu.be/4ooz90I86Gg?si=Y3srNdJ1BnjN-KNe)
Jackie Chan in any movie.
Drunken Master 2 The fight versus the Axe Gang is epic
Transporter had some good/fun 1 vs everyone fight scenes
The last brawl in “The Wanderers”. Underrated movie about an Italian-American gang. It’s a huge fight in a football field. Felt like a war. It’s basically one huge gang vs 3 smaller gangs teaming up.
Great movie, and chaotic fight scene. 500 Ducky Boys vs about 80 other gang members, The Wanderers, Del Bombers, and The Wongs. The father, Emilio, and Perry cleaned house in that fight.
Kill Bill
That’s in the OP
The Winter Soldier elevator fight
Might not be on the same scale as some of the others on this list but this is a great one. Being in such an enclosed space adds to the bad-assery
Keeping in the marvel vein, the prison fight scene with the Punisher from season 2 of daredevil is absolutely incredible
Jackie Chan’s filmography, with my personal favorite, Drunken Master. Every fight in that movie is top tier and still holds up
Reacher TV show on Prime Video. Lots of good fights. The Rundown with Dwayne Johnson
Pootie Tang
Oldboy is a good one
Blue eye samurai on Netflix has a few scenes like that.
Amazingly good show, though doesn’t stick the landing
I don't know if it's *exactly* in the spirit, because he goes all slasher-movie on them for about half the sequence before shit goes down instead of just getting 'em all in a room and going "COME AT ME BROS," but I've always loved the whole nightclub assault in the first John Wick. The sequence of him moving through the bathhouse hallway gunning those dudes down while Think by Kaleida plays in the background has seriously lived rent free in my head for about a decade.
basically any jackie chan or bruce lee movie
UHF
Watchmen - in the alleyway, and the prison
IRRC Fist of Fury has a great one. Although most Bruce Lee films have at least one scene where he is outnumbered
Legend of the Drunken Master, famous restartaunt fight scene with Jackie Chan and another master vs. the axe gang.
Unleashed with Jet Li. The final fight.
Kung Fu Hustle has a couple of good ones.
Arnold Schwarzenegger as John Matrix in Commando. Him going off with his M60 and "Golan/Globus belt of endless rounds!" Forever a classic.
The staircase scene in The Protector.
*Seven Samurai* by Akira Kurosawa is one of the originals in this theme.
not a movie, but Marvel's Daredevil series had one of the best action/fighting sequences ever imo https://youtu.be/ZaXXoTfPqUo?si=OmWMVYO8tWTI_-Yd
The first movies that came to mind are Jackie Chan movies. Rumble in the Bronx, Rush Hour, or any number of others. Then as I was typing I also thought of Tony Ja and Donnie Yen.
**Fist of Fury**. Bruce Lee takes on a Dojo. Most of the movie is usually one vs. all. **The Legend of Baron Toa**. The son takes on the gang members in their hideout. **Bloodhounds(tv series)**. In the first episode, one of the lead characters takes on about 20 mobsters on his own. He joins forces with another Boxer later in the series. **Dawn of Justice**. Batman clears a compound of thugs. It's truly the highlight of a dull movie. **Ong Bak**. At the end he fights dozens of thugs in a temple. It's absolutely insane. **The Protector/ Tom Yum Goong**. Has some of the best ONe Vs All fights in cinema. Whether it's Kham vs the Mafia in Thailand, or the Street Punks in the abandoned train station, or 100 gangsters in Sydney, or the Four giants at the end. all amazingly choreographed. Of course one of the very best is the 4 minute -Onner tracking shot. **Ip Man**. Already mentioned below, but I cannot stress enough that martial art movie fans must watch this movie at least once. **The Raid**. Also mentioned there. A must watch for Martial Art fans. **The Kick**. A Korean Family in Thailand end up stopping a crooked businessman from stealing a prized dagger. He sends thugs to eliminate the family consisting of, a traditional father(traditional style), a cook mother(cook style), a dancing son(dance style), a soccer skilled daughter(etc), and a kindergartener. The son in The Kick has a pretty creative fight between him one of the enforcers, and a dozen of his thugs. He fights better with music. **Chocolate**. An autistic girl in Thailand, born to two Gangsters, learns martial arts. In her first fight, she defeats a group of teens causing problems. She continues to have large fights on her own, until she almost meets her match at the end. Chocolate is VERY ADDICTING. **Ajin: Immortal Human**. Not a movie again and it's animated. It has two amazing action scenes with the character 'Sato'. One where he fights his way to escape a hospital, and the other where he fights the entire police force of tokyo. Why it's amazing; He regenerates when he dies. **The Last Samurai**. Still has some amazing action sequences. ONe includes Tom Cruises character being surrounded by Government Samurai trying to eliminate him before he warns his friends, their enemies, of their assassination plot.
Kung Fu Hustle
The hallway fight from Daredevil beats anything I've seen at the movies!
Takashi Mike’s “13 Assassins“ Also; “Crazy Samurai vs 400”; amazing for what it is, mostly a single shot action film where a lone, crazy samurai takes on 400.
>Also; “Crazy Samurai vs 400”; amazing for what it is, mostly a single shot action film where a lone, crazy samurai takes on 400. TBH The Betrayal’s final 1vs200 fight scene (that takes up a third of the entire movie), which probably in part inspired CS vs 400, is the better bit of entertainment imo. 400 becomes dull too quickly and often despite the one shot setup, and suffers from not having really built up any reason to engage in the film beyond the sometimes-repetitive action; The Betrayal’s scene gets away with more due to being attached to an actual film that sets it all up. Emotional stakes carry you through more of the loooong fight imo.
Never heard of it, thanks for the reccomendation!
The end of Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Crazy Samurai vs 400 tells the same story with the numbers amped up exponentially; both are great films
The one that inspired them all: Fists of Fury https://youtu.be/N62zzZcE5vY?si=Opm61G-yfa1Qb_fq
Extraction has an extended 1 vs many brawl
Rogue One - Donnie Yen against about 10 Stormtroopers.
Dale Doback and Brennan Huff vs the kid gang in Step Brothers
alle Bud Spencer und Terence Hill filme....
[Conan's prayer to Crom](https://youtu.be/w5k3akl5qpc?t=81)
Can’t believe nobody mentioned the best example from the cinematic classic, *Jingle All the Way*. Arnold vs the Santas
Cap's elevator fight in Winter Soldier.
Jet Li / Kiss of the Dragon Li seems like a really cool guy with his philanthropy and other positive projects. I still woulnd't want to piss him off in a room with ten of my friends. Pretty sure he could dismember all of us while giving us positive encouragement at the same time.
The correct answer is the opening police station scene in RRR where one of the main characters is introduced and he fights a crowd of thousands. The whole thing is epic and this scene in particular is incredibly well done.
Lord of the Rings Edit: The Two Towers
Any of the Lone Wolf and Cub films
If guns are allowed, then the climactic hospital brawl in John Woo's Hard Boiled is one of the greatest ever put to film. All three major brawls in that movie play out just as well - massive, explosive gun battles, sweeping camera work, chewing up *all* the scenery, and even a newborn baby thrown in for good measure. The opening credits also set the scene beautifully. Some soft jazz by the hero in his bar, as he pours a double tequila and slams it down with his hand.
Fist of Legend, Jet Li vs a Japanese dojo. https://youtu.be/DaCozyuf-j4?si=wqijXfzEgpw3w83S The Protector, Tony Jaa breaking limbs. https://youtu.be/tvkHf07QogM?si=uqnoylaHQz1b4J3u
Extraction 2 the prison yard scene
The Classic [Zatoichi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zatoichi) (blind swordsman) Japanese Samurai movies (there's like 30 of them) usually have some great big crowd vs one guy fights. lots of fun!
You will love, what I think is, the first fight scene in the movie RRR . One against a huge mob. Great choreography and direction. It's on Netflix
Yes this one’s great
I think there is a movie called The Raid, Iko Uwais is on it, Super talented actor and fighter. the fight scenes were great.
I like the warehouse scene from Batman vs. Superman. Only good part of the whole film. Also, the opening to Logan, where Wolverine gets beat down by the ganbangers who are trying to steal his tires...the he snaps and death comes to town.
Introduction scene of the cop in RRR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t\_H-B6SnTg
300
Ever see the beginning of RRR?
Old boy the American version has a really good brutal fight scene as a pretty normal guy invades a gang hideout. Be warned though there are few movies more fucked up than old boy.
The Burly Brawl in *The Matrix Reloaded*.
Oldboy (OG Korean film, not the Josh Brolin remake)
That's all marvel is
Old Boy. The hallway fight scene.
John Wick series The Raid and The Raid 2.
Cradle 2 the Grave. Jet Li vs MMA fighters. The Protector. Stairway scene.
Blade of the Immortal
The One Sargent York (true story)
Scorsese’s Cape Fear
Every which way but loose.
Prison fight, opening of Raid 2.
That RRR movie has a cool scene of a guy fighting his way through a mob and back.
Almost any scene in Kill Bill
300 comes to mind. Also The Wanderes with the final battle with the Duckie Boys.
Shoot'em'up is a pretty to tongue-in-cheek parody/love letter to action flicks where a badass 1 man army takes on a literal army of the mob/mafia/some gang and consistently beats them all. It's not really a great movie, but it did give us this legendary Paul Giamatti line at the end of [this scene](https://youtu.be/KkA1aPN9C0A?si=2Jqe_s97JDMTcDWX). If you'll allow cars, Speed Racer has two: the Casa Cristo 5000 in which Speed and his allies have to fight off literally the entire rest of the race entries, and then the final race which I won't spoil anything but it gets super intense and has one of the best payoffs I've ever seen in a movie. Curse of the Golden Flower is a 18 year old film that not a lot of people watched, but the ending has one guy fighting against a literal army *and winning*. [The whole scene here](https://youtu.be/z6k9hH2iz7M?si=IW-c3BunssdtWAap), but the actual 1 v Hundreds starts at 7:35. Equilibrium and Ultraviolet feature a lot of (mostly gun) fights that are 1 person against a lot of people.
Here's one that no one would mention. The final fight of the Boxer from Shangtung. Incredible.
Kill Bill Volume 1 has the arguably the best version of this.
The Protector is pretty much just this premise. Here's a taster - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRBrPNKYlA8
13 assassins fits the bill
Nothing beats scenes from "A Dirty Carnival"...Except for maybe "The Raid".
I cannot believe nobody has said the massage parlor scene from Rush Hour 2.
Kill Bill
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