: Modern "extreme" cinema at its peak, featuring a 12-minute "one-shot" street sequence that pushes the boundaries of choreography.
Sin City (2005) — Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller
| # | Movie | Year | Why It’s “Better” | |---|-------|------|--------------------| | 1 | The Night Comes for Us | 2018 | More brutal hand-to-hand than The Raid 2 | | 2 | Drug War | 2012 | Smarter cat-and-mouse than Sicario | | 3 | Avengement | 2019 | Scott Adkins’ best prison-revenge performance | | 4 | Flashpoint | 2007 | Donnie Yen – tactical realism over wire-fu | | 5 | A Bittersweet Life | 2005 | Superior gangster tragedy to The Departed | | 6 | The Outlaws | 2017 | Ma Dong-seok’s raw street brawling | | 7 | Why Don’t You Just Die! | 2018 | Russian hyper-violence with dark wit | | 8 | SPL: Kill Zone | 2005 | Donnie Yen vs. Wu Jing – alley fight gold | | 9 | Headshot | 2016 | Iko Uwais – more savage than The Raid 1 | | 10 | The Villainess | 2017 | Puts Atomic Blonde to shame (POV carnage) |
: Modern "extreme" cinema at its peak, featuring a 12-minute "one-shot" street sequence that pushes the boundaries of choreography.
Sin City (2005) — Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller extremestreets 10 movies better
| # | Movie | Year | Why It’s “Better” | |---|-------|------|--------------------| | 1 | The Night Comes for Us | 2018 | More brutal hand-to-hand than The Raid 2 | | 2 | Drug War | 2012 | Smarter cat-and-mouse than Sicario | | 3 | Avengement | 2019 | Scott Adkins’ best prison-revenge performance | | 4 | Flashpoint | 2007 | Donnie Yen – tactical realism over wire-fu | | 5 | A Bittersweet Life | 2005 | Superior gangster tragedy to The Departed | | 6 | The Outlaws | 2017 | Ma Dong-seok’s raw street brawling | | 7 | Why Don’t You Just Die! | 2018 | Russian hyper-violence with dark wit | | 8 | SPL: Kill Zone | 2005 | Donnie Yen vs. Wu Jing – alley fight gold | | 9 | Headshot | 2016 | Iko Uwais – more savage than The Raid 1 | | 10 | The Villainess | 2017 | Puts Atomic Blonde to shame (POV carnage) | : Modern "extreme" cinema at its peak, featuring