Top 10 Movie Hallway Fights
Why don't we take this fight somewhere more narrow? Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the best film fights in hallways and other narrow rooms and spaces. Is there a corridor of film fights we failed to walk down?
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00:00 "Neo, no one has ever done anything like this."
00:04 "That's why it's going to work."
00:07 Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the best film fights in
00:12 hallways and other narrow rooms and spaces.
00:14 "Ahh!"
00:20 Number 10, Hit Girl hits mobsters.
00:24 Kick-ass.
00:25 She may be 11 years old, but Hit Girl is easily the most badass character in this film.
00:31 After her father is murdered by mob boss Frank D'Amico, Mindy McCready, or Hit Girl, storms
00:35 his headquarters.
00:37 After doing some absurd kills with a knife on a rope, Hit Girl proceeds to shoot her
00:41 way through the rest of D'Amico's goons in a narrow book-lined hallway.
00:48 Her acrobatics have her leaping off of her opponents, the walls, and over obstacles,
00:53 and all this over-the-top violence is set to Joan Jett's bad reputation.
00:56 It's a snappy, bloody sequence that is a ton of fun to watch, even if it's the shortest
01:02 of the fights we'll be discussing.
01:08 Number 9, Brothel Assault, Taxi Driver.
01:11 The climax of this classic thriller sees Travis Bickle attacking Sport, a pimp who he knows
01:16 employs a child sex worker named Iris.
01:22 After shooting Sport, Travis makes his way inside, shooting a client and contending with
01:27 the injured pimp who follows him in.
01:28 Wounded, Travis makes his way up a staircase, fighting off the bleeding client and Sports
01:34 Bouncer.
01:35 It's a haunting, bloody sequence, with an ambiguous ending that leaves Travis' fate,
01:42 in light of later events, hard to pin down.
01:45 But there is nothing in question about how intense the shootout is, even almost half
01:50 a century later.
02:01 Number 8, Vader Pursues the Rebels, Rogue One, A Star Wars Story.
02:12 The conclusion of this Star Wars prequel sees the Rebellion get their hands on the plans
02:16 to the Death Star, at great cost.
02:18 But the Rebels are not out of the woods just yet.
02:21 As a door jams in a hallway, who should appear at the darkened opposite end but Darth Vader
02:26 himself?
02:30 The Sith Lord ignites his lightsaber and angrily tears through the panicked Rebel soldiers
02:34 like tissue paper, throwing them around with the Force and generally causing mayhem.
02:39 While calling this a fight is a bit generous, the sheer terror and presence Vader invokes
02:44 makes this sequence unforgettable.
02:55 Number 7, Black Widow vs. Hammer Security, Iron Man 2.
03:01 Natasha Romanoff, aka the Black Widow, has a lot of great fight scenes, but her debut
03:06 is still something special.
03:07 The SHIELD assassin shows up at the Hammer factory with Tony Stark's bodyguard, Happy
03:11 Hogan in tow.
03:13 While Happy struggles against the first guard they encounter, Black Widow charges down the
03:17 hallway and quickly takes down a dozen guards.
03:20 She does so with a ton of gadgets, wires, and her signature head scissor move.
03:32 She even breaks out some mace!
03:34 The variety of weapons, creative takedowns, and bits of humor make this an excellent fight.
03:46 Number 6, Stairwell Fight, Atomic Blonde.
03:53 On the eve of the Berlin Wall coming down, Lorraine Broughton is an MI6 agent trying to
03:58 get a defector, Spyglass, out of East Berlin.
04:01 Finding refuge in a nearby building's stairwell after Spyglass is shot, Lorraine fights half
04:05 a dozen KGB agents who pursue them.
04:08 Lorraine fights the first two in the stairwell, with all three combatants getting bloodied
04:12 throughout as they gradually make it down the stairs.
04:21 A shootout with some more opponents leads to a nearby flat, where an exhausted Lorraine
04:25 finally takes down the final opponent.
04:34 Arranged to appear like one continuous shot, though with a couple of clever cuts, this
04:38 scene is among the most brutal hallway fights around.
04:42 Number 5, White House Attack, X2, X-Men United.
04:49 Sometimes a hallway fight is the best way to open a movie.
04:52 At the White House, a brainwashed Nightcrawler teleports his way through security before
04:56 he begins attacking every guard in his way.
04:59 The blue, devilish-looking mutants' acrobatics and teleportation make for a truly unique
05:03 and exciting fight scene, as he appears and disappears faster than you can say "bamf".
05:15 With classic Mozart accompanying his attack, Nightcrawler nearly kills the US President
05:20 before he's wounded and retreats.
05:27 Even decades after its release, this is still an epic set piece and one of the coolest uses
05:32 of teleportation on screen.
05:34 Number 4, Rotating Hallway, Inception.
05:37 Christopher Nolan is famous for his wild, high-concept fight scenes.
05:41 And while the backwards fight in Tenet was tempting, this fight is simply more memorable.
05:46 Inception in general has plenty of mind-bending moments, due to its concept of dreams within
05:51 dreams.
05:52 However, one of the coolest uses of the concept occurs in a fight scene.
05:56 Arthur is dreaming he's in a hotel, while he's in a car being driven by Yusuf.
06:08 As Arthur fights off assailants in a hotel hallway, Yusuf's frankly terrible driving
06:12 causes the whole world to rotate, leading to Arthur and his foes battling not just on
06:17 the floor of the hallway, but also its walls and ceiling.
06:21 Not only is this effect incredible, it's also achieved without CGI.
06:26 Crazy right?
06:35 Number 3, Lobby Shootout, The Matrix.
06:41 A lobby isn't exactly a hallway, but it's narrow enough that we're counting it.
06:46 In this famous scene from The Matrix, Neo and Trinity waltz into the building where
06:50 their leader Morpheus is being held, armed to the teeth.
06:57 After blowing away the initial guards, they're faced with much more dangerous resistance.
07:02 With each taking one side of the room, the duo shoots their way towards the elevator,
07:06 all while effortlessly avoiding the hail of bullets coming their way.
07:15 Between the music, the trademark slow motion and all the flying debris, the lobby fight
07:19 is among the most effortlessly cool shootouts in cinema.
07:27 Number 2, Rama vs. The Machete Gang, The Raid Redemption.
07:32 The Raid films have some of the best fight scenes ever, so it's no surprise that one
07:36 of the best hallway fights is in one of them.
07:39 Rama is a police officer whose team becomes trapped and ambushed in an apartment building
07:43 controlled by drug dealers.
07:45 Alone and without backup, Rama faces off against a gang of machete-wielding thugs in a hallway.
08:01 Rama fights off the gang using rapid-fire kicks, the environment, some of their machetes,
08:06 and his considerable skills in martial arts.
08:09 The choreography is fluid yet natural and all the hits are brutal.
08:13 The whole thing will leave you breathless until Rama dives with the last guy out a window.
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08:43 Number 1, The Hallway Fight, Oldboy.
08:46 This is the OG hallway fight.
08:49 It's the one that has inspired so many others, including one from the third Guardians of
08:53 the Galaxy.
08:54 Odesu is a man on a quest for vengeance and answers.
08:58 After interrogating the warden of the prison he was held in for years, Odesu is set upon
09:02 by many guards.
09:04 Shot from the side and in one continuous take, Odesu fights off the men with a hammer and
09:09 his fists.
09:17 Despite the extraordinary circumstances, the whole fight feels grounded in reality.
09:22 The combatants tire eventually.
09:24 Odesu gets a second wind and manages to prevail.
09:27 Despite backup appearing, the grizzled badass still wins.
09:31 The stylish approach and gritty, ferocious combat have made it the gold standard of hallway
09:36 fights.
09:43 Is there a corridor of film fights we've failed to walk down?
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