RUN! JUMP! FIGHT!

Some of cinema’s finest fight/action/suspense scenes and why they stand-out from the crowd.

The Protector (Thailand, 2005) Spiral stairs one-shot fight: Tony Jaa storms up the spiraling interior of a sleazy hotel, hospitalizing stunt men and smashing objects both fixed and movable in one of the most spectacular examples of steady-cam shooting ever recorded: an unbroken 4 minute single shot of non-stop martial arts action form the ground floor of a building to the top floor, that surely rates highly as one of the most dangerous jobs a cameraman has ever faced outside of a war...