Top 10 Action Scenes of 2013

I understand the year isn’t quite yet through. And with contenders 47 Ronin and The Desolation of Smaug yet to enter the ring, this list may become redundant in the coming weeks. And if so I’ll happily update this piece. But I don’t hold out much hope for that.I want to emphasis, this IS NOT a list of the year’s greatest action movies. Far from it*. This just catalogues the most dynamic, most kinetic, most ‘Holy-Balls-did-you-just-see-that’ sequences of 2013.*Example, Fast Six has so many good bits it’s too hard to snare just one. Parker on the other hand…10 – Mother Russia Vs. The Fuzz (Kick-Ass 2)The action in Kick Ass 2 never bothered to strain itself beyond ‘passable’. Except… Spurred on by the iconic Tetris theme, the gigantic Olga Kurkulina dispatches waves of police cars with increasingly inventive (not to mention violent) means. Case in point – Lawnmower projectile!

Read the Review9 – The Entire Middle Bit (Star Trek: Into Darkness) Robocop Enterprise Big. Handsome Captain Enterprise Big Enterprise Tidgy. Handsome Captain Sherlock Enterprise Big Sherlock Robocop’s

Then he shoots Enterprise Tidgy. Enterprise Tidgy falls to earth despite a distinct lack of gravity...

Stale, shallow and sloppy. But also hella pacy!Read the Review8 – Jason Crank high fives a knife! (Parker) Parker’s sole redeeming feature: Midway through an otherwise sedate Statham flick, an uncommonly brutal bathroom barney breaks out. One combatant is half suffocated while the business end of a cistern lid is employed generously to the other’s face. Then a knife gets whipped out. But The Stath, you know, is The Stath.

Read the Review7 – See that planet? Shoot it! (Ender’s Game) Ender’s Game Ender’s

Read the Review6 – Heuston, We have a problem (Gravity) Gravity’s Gravity’s

Read the Review5 – Ninjanapping (G.I. Joe: Retaliation) COULD Retaliation

Read the Review4 – Best Job Interview Ever (Man of Tai Chi) Keanu Reeves

The Interview scene epitomizes Man of Tai Chi, teasing a unique notion before launching into an elaborate rapid fire war of fists and feet. With Yuen Woo Ping choreographing this comes as no surprise. But Man of Tai Chi’s unusual vicious streak is a welcome break from the norm…

Read the Review3 – Battle of Smallville (Man of Steel) Man of Steel Superman Kryptonian-Military-Supes Supes Zod Faora Supes Namek Supes

And then they had to go and follow it up with Superman Vs. The Tentacle…Read the Review2 – Extremely Extremis (Iron Man 3)Some fans were disappointed by the lack of Iron Man (aka Man IN Iron) in Shane Black’s billion dollar sequel. Others, rightly, bemoan the sudden fragility of both the Extremis troops and Tony’s unmanned chassis.

But this doesn’t detract from the year’s most inventive action sequence. War atop a collapsing ship-yard as a handful of human combatants struggle to keep a battalion of uh, Fire People at bay as a legion of synced exoskeletons provide cover fire is only the half of it. Tony leaps into and ejects out of suits with gleeful abandon. Suits split into constituent missiles and thunder into foes. Extremis troops hurl shards of rebar like new-age lances. And that’s all before Pepper wins the day or the Mark 42 shows up for the best bait and switches I’ve seen in many a year!

Read the Review1 – Battle for Hong Kong (Pacific Rim) Iron Man 3’s Man of Steel Man of Tai Chi Pacific Rim The Battle of Hong Kong Jagers Kaiju Hong Kong Crimson Typhoon’s Thunderhead formation Cherno Alpha Gipsy Danger The Battle for Hong Kong

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