Best/Favorite modern martial arts movies

Haakon

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The question "what are the best martial arts films" comes up fairly often, and we see more or less the same 10 or 20 great films often from the 70's and 80's. Since that is covered what are your favorite (1, 5, 10 however many you want to list) modern martial arts movies? By 'modern' lets say movies released in 2000 or newer.

My list, not in order, would be:
  • Ip Man
  • Ip Man 2
  • Forbidden Kingdom
  • Blood and Bone
  • Shanghai Knights (corny, I know, but I liked it)
  • 300
  • Karate Kid
 

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* Chocolate. (Not Chocolat, but the one about the Autistic girl who learns MuyTai from watching Tony Ja films)
* Ong Bak (all 3 of them)
* The Protector
* Kung Fu Hustle
* The One
* Unleashed
 

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* Chocolate. (Not Chocolat, but the one about the Autistic girl who learns MuyTai from watching Tony Ja films)
* Ong Bak (all 3 of them)
* The Protector
* Kung Fu Hustle
* The One
* Unleashed

Chocolate is one I just stumbled on by blind luck and really liked.


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My current favorites are -

13 Assassins
Shaolin 2011
Ip Man 2
Ip Man

And I am always looking for more..
 

billc

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What is the time frame on Modern? One of my favorite martial arts movies of all time was "The Challenge," with Toshiro Mifune and Scott Glenn. I also really liked Jackie Chan's first foray into the American market with "The Big Brawl." Do these count or do you mean more recently?
 

harlan

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What constitutes 'martial'?

In no specific order:

Bourne Series
Ip Man (#1)
Karate Kid (classic....and goju!)
Perfect Weapon (god...he was hot! :) )
Any samurai movie with Toshiro Mifune (yes...even 'Red Sun')
 

Randy Strausbaugh

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OK, modern movies.

In no special order:

Black Belt (Kuro Obi)
Ong Bak 2
Fighter in the Wind
Fearless
Ip Man (1)
Kill Bill (1&2)
Merantau
13 Assassins

I'll probably think of more later.
 

MZH

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Batman Begins

Dark Knight Rises.

RedBelt

1989 Ninja Turtles/
 

Aiki Lee

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The Raid: Redemption was pretty cool too. Best martial arts movie of all time though?

Yojimbo, hands down.
 

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