# Another Top 5 list - favorite action movie performances **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 8, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-top-5-list-favorite-action-movie-performances/32509 "2000-09-08T16:00:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-top-5-list-favorite-action-movie-performances/32509/21 "2000-09-09T15:58:28Z")
Ooh… a thread after my own heart. 😃 Let’s see… Jackie Chan: Rumble in the Bronx and darn near everything else. Movies where he gets to play around for 10-15 minutes, not Rush Hour, where he didn’t get to. Don’t hold him back! Just give him a dozen guys to beat up and let him work, that’s what we pay for. Plot in his movies are just devices to string the fights together with. Bruce Willis: Fifth Element. Once he gets going on the cruise ship, that is. I love his idea of negoiations. You’ll understand if you’ve seen the movie. Mortal Kombat: I don’t recall the guy who plays Cage, but his fight with Scorpion is the best in the movie. Not to mention the start of the fight with that big guy. 🙂 Brandon Lee: The Crow. Love all the guns. Star Wars: I love the lightsaber fights,tho the best so far, has to be In Phantom Menance, with ROTJ in second. That’s about what saved PM, for me. Oh, and a Honorable Mention to Arnie: There’s too much stuff he’s been good in, tho I will mention Predator, simply because HBO or Cinemax had it on the other night. ---
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-top-5-list-favorite-action-movie-performances/32509/22 "2000-09-09T16:34:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Balance \* > \*\* > Ray Parks in “Phantom Menace” (Whatever you think of the movie, you have to admit the fight scene is _incredible_. Also, Darth Maul always triggers the thought “Such a quiet villain. Never too busy to stop and run you through.” In Richard Dawson’s voice, no less–name that reference, action movie fans!) \*\* Why, _The Running Man,"_ of course. Dawson’s great creepy performance in a pile of excrement movie. ---
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-top-5-list-favorite-action-movie-performances/32509/23 "2000-09-09T16:37:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Saint Zero \* > \*\*Mortal Kombat: I don’t recall the guy who plays Cage, but his fight with Scorpion is the best in the movie. Not to mention the start of the fight with that big guy. \*\* > [@](#): > > \*\* > Oh, and a Honorable Mention to Arnie: There’s too much stuff he’s been good in, tho I will mention Predator, simply because HBO or Cinemax had it on the other night.\*\* Yeah, gotta go for Predator or for Terminator 2. Prime example of screenwriters and directors and Arnold knowing his strengths and his limitations, and working with them (in a humorous way, too, at some points of T2). ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-top-5-list-favorite-action-movie-performances/32509/24 "2000-09-09T21:56:51Z")
Listing ones not mentioned: Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo, Seven Samarai Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in (Hey, if I have to tell you the movie’s name you shouldn’t be reading this thread!) Charles Bronson in The Mechanic and Death Wish (when he started swinging the quarter filled sock around his head you could just feel his anger and frustration) Steven Seagal in Under Siege (Erika Eleniak popping out of the cake didn’t hurt the movie much, either) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Diesel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Diesel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diesel)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-top-5-list-favorite-action-movie-performances/32509/25 "2000-09-10T05:37:15Z")
in no particular order: Brandon Lee - The Crow Nicolas Cage - Face/Off Keanu Reeves - Speed (he had more to work with than he did with Matrix and did a surprisingly good job with it) Edward Norton - Fight Club (this is debatable, though, because Fight Club is a multi-genre movie) Brad Pitt - Fight Club (see above) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-top-5-list-favorite-action-movie-performances/32509.md?page=1)