I thought it would be a cool post to see what martial art/action movies the people here like in an effort to share and expand on different movies to check out.
I tend to like both new and old movies so here is a short list of some of the stuff I have on the top of my head.
1."The Way of the Gun"- great freakin movie
2."Ronin"- Excellent chase and ambush scence.
3."Nevada Smith"-A real cool 1965 western movie with Steve McQeen and Martin Landau that had some good knife stuff in it.
4."Hell is for Heroes" Another Steve McQeen movie.
5. "Bullet"-Another Steve McQueen Movie. The greatest chase scences of all time.
6."Thief" This is a great James Caan movie and it was done by the guy who did heat.
7."Green Berets" The classic John Wayne movie.
8."Devils Brigade" This is a real cool movie that has some good WW2 CQC training scences.
9."13 rue Madeline" Another WW2 movie, this one has Cagney using war-time Ju Jitsu to fight and kill a Nazi in ocupied France.
10."Cloak&Dagger" This is a Gary Cooper flick where he uses some of the moves from "Kill or Get Killed" to take out an Italian agent.
11."Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid"-Newman has a great knife scence, plus it is a very cool movie.
12."Dirty Dozen"-What can I say, sweeet WW2 movie!
13."Fighting Seabees"-Another cool WW2 movie.
14."Objective, Burma"-WW2 paratroopers dropped into the Burmese jungle, good stuff.
15."Rambo/First Blood"-Syslvester kicking ass and taking names.
16."Hard Boiled"-John Woo
17."The Story of G.I. Joe"-One of the greatest war pics. Robert Mitchum is great.
18."Flying Leathernecks"-another good one.
19."Bridge on River Kwai"-I like it alot!
20."Gung Ho!"-A cool movie about the Marine Raiders and how they took Makin Isalnd in 1942.
22."Braveheart"-Freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
23."Enter the Dragon"-The best Bruce Lee pic!
24."Kiss of the Dragon"-One of the better, new breed, kung fu action pics.
25."Conan"-Who can miss with that flick
26."Five Deadly Venoms"-A classic kung fu pic.
27."Tiger Claw"-A pic that I enjoyed, early 90's, tiger claw kung fu and bolo yung.
28."Island of Doctor No"-It has a cool Hapkido throw in the begining and Sean Connery as bond rules.
29."The Rock"-Sean Connery again.
30."Desparado"-Great gun scences even though it is full of bs!
31."Highlander"-Their can be only one!!!!!!!
32."MissonImpossible 2"-Cool fight footage.
I left out like a million but you get the picture.
What movies do you like?