Undefeated: The 10 greatest fist fight scenes in cinema history

Oldboy

You gotta feel bad for Spike Lee when he signed up to remake this now-classic 2003 Korean thriller: He was going to have to make a fight scene that rivaled this one right here. Of course, he failed, as he missed the beautiful simplicity of the image (Lee took his fight down several levels of parking garage, which sort of missed the point here) and the incredible amount of difficult work that went into making it. This hallway fight has been imitated multiple times, and none have come close. From the badass banter at the beginning about how the gang members with AB blood types should get out of the hallway and tend to their boss, to the sheer beatdown Choi Min-sik is given over the course of this five minute scene (he gets stabbed in the fucking back!) and then the one he dishes out to these punks, this is a straight up orgy of violence, composed like a renaissance painting. Done in one take, this fight scene was done a total of 17 times over three days until Park Chan-wook got what he wanted. Everyone’s efforts were totally fucking worth it.