Best of the Best is one of my favorite movies of all time in any genre. I could legit watch it every day and not get tired of it. Back in the 90s I rented it at least 2 times a month. Until I got a job and had the money to go buy the vhs! I have the dvd but wish they had released a 4K version
Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Double Impact and Best of the best we're the movies that impacted me. Went to a martial arts journey training Taekwon-Do, Ju-Jutsu, Kickboxing and Muay Thai. Good times.
The Perfect weapon is great. I had never heard of it until my boss mentioned it earlier this year. No clue how it evaded me when I was younger, but it held up great in spite of some of its chessiness.
Nice list, No Retreat No Surrender should definitely be on there. The fight scenes in NRTS 2&3 with Loren Avedon are quality. Also, King of the Kickboxers with Billy Blanks as the villain, AWOL and China O'Brien all worth a watch.
Rapid Fire(1992), Excessive Force(1993) and Only The Strong(1993) i feel deserved to be an honorable mention atleast...Otherwise, good list nonetheless
All of these movies are mid in my opinion, but they are memorable for one reason or another. Hard to live up to expectations when your father is a legend, but Brandon Lee did a pretty good job with Rapid Fire , and I also liked him and Dolph Lundgren in Showdown in Little Tokyo. Excessive Force gave Thomas Ian Griffith more of a chance to show off his martial arts skills than he had in Karate Kid III. Only the Strong is worth mentioning for being the only movie to feature capoeira front and center.
New video perfect ranking the way I loved it especially in martial arts movies ranking especially on Numbers 4 3 2 1 that was perfect. You did your homework. Right and I loved it.
That was your BEST intro ever, perfectly written, edited, narrated, and a great selection of old ass clips of old dudes doing basic stuff back in the day and progressing thru the years :) Ya'll getting better all the time, love ya!!!
I think this was a fair list. I would like to suggest Billy Jack from 1971. For its time, it was a successful independent film that the hero showcases martial arts mainly hapkido, and tae kwon do.
I think there might be a few more to add to the list. Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx, broke wide in the US and established him as a martial arts star. I get that it wasn't "American" made, but it took place in the US. Followed up with some Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon. At the very least, an honorable mention.
Not a bad list. Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack introduced HAPKIDO to the US. Thanks for mentioning Jim Kelly. My personal favorite of his is "Black Samurai" where he plays a government agent.
Overall a good list, but you probably could’ve done a two-way tie with Bloodsport and Kickboxer, and you could’ve put The Perfect Weapon in your list. That is one of the most underrated martial arts films from the 90s. It’s a crying shame Jeff Speakman didn’t have a better career though. Hollywood just didn’t know what to do with him. While I do enjoy the early Seagal films, I think Marked for Death and Out for Justice are slightly (and I do mean “slightly”) better than Above the Law, but I’m just nitpicking at this point.
Such a perfect timing, I was actually looking for some martial art movies to watch. Now I to add 10 more movies. Hopefully you guys do Hong Kong movies as well. Love the video. Have a nice Sunday!
As a life-long martial arts fanatic I recently checked out the first American Ninja flick and was not impressed. It was very disappointing for a franchise I'd been hearing about for decades. The Perfect Weapon on the otherhand was a nice retro surprise. Speakman was really fast and it was a lot of fun to watch him kick some ass.
It's certainly not going to impress if your focus is solely on the martial arts. American Ninja's appeal is more in the whole package. A charismatic lead, interesting concept, good soundtrack, and for its time pretty good fight choreography. Ninja and Asian mysticism were still relatively unknown territory in the 80's. I think Canon executed it pretty well.
@@KoshoShinogiyeah it was pretty obvious he had no martial arts background (I also saw no discernable charmisma, but that's me). A far cry from the stuff Sho Kosugi had been doing in that era, which I find far more entertaining.
Where is "Rapid Fire" & "The Perfect Weapon"" on this list? Brandon Lee, choreographed "Rapid Fire" and the son of the legendary Bruce Lee. Jeff Speakman was very underrated in general.
The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie should have been in the honorable mention. Those martial artists in turtle costume have done so many martial art moves.
I love that Best of the Best and Last Dragon made the list! I love the top 5, but I'm really surprised no American made Jackie Chan movies made the list. For some reason I thought Rumble in the Bronx and Who Am I were considered American made, but I'm thinking they were still Hong Kong made (even though Rumble in the Bronx always stuck out to me as Jackie's first American movie). I guess the only one that would qualify would be Rush Hour then...and while that one is amazing it is more comedy than martial arts.
Nailed it. Best of the best is one of those movies when you watched it you will always remember it. the last dragon also a classic.. so many great movies. I would mention what you keep showing which was Only the strong, and heck even drunken master. another fun showing in my opinion. either way still nailed this list. cheers.
No Retreat No Surrender was not a good movie by any metric. Fun? Yes. But the acting, the editing, the dubbing, and the story were not of a caliber to land on a top 10 list. Fist Full of Yen, I don't know. Is it an American movie?
Unlike in the Karate Kid, when you really get injured doing martial arts, the instructor tells you to go to a doctor. Sadly, I didn't know that as a 10-year-old. American Ninja was also good. Great list.
I love these American Martial Arts Movies. They really motivate people to become better tomorrow in the future. Hollywood just don't want to take these kind of risk in doing it anymore. Instead, they're doing John Wick style, oh come on, none of us are buying that. We need those old school martial arts movies again.
I can't really argue with this list, definitely brought back memories of my younger self renting these movies on VHS. Damn, I'm feel very old for saying that. Lol!
If you're talking the best movie to feature martial arts the it has to be The Karate Kid and it's not even close. If you're talking about the best martial arts in American movies then Karate kid does not make the top 100 so it's a tough movie to rank but i'm glad it made the list. Leaving out The Matrix because it has guns was a bit harsh, but understandable, i think that would have been number 1
I think I saw an "Only the Strong" clip at the end there....another underrated American Martial Arts movie. I saw the end credits made reference to "No Retreat No Surrender" but I must have missed the clip in the video. I loved that movie as a kid, but don't think it really holds up today other than a fun cheesy 80s movie with good soundtrack (if you watch the right version with "Stand on your own").
Another great martial arts film is Lionheart/Wrong Bet. Van Damme butt-kicking excellence. Don’t know if it deserves at top 10 place, but it’s up there
It's a bad movie on so many levels. Enjoyable to a martial arts film buff, but in the same category of forgettable B-movie slosh from Billy Blanks, Don Wilson and the like.
@KoalaKimKnits It was certainly memorable enough for Scott Adkins to do an Art of Action episode on the lead, Kurt McKinney, despite that basically being his one and only martial arts film credit.
1. Enter The Dragon 2. Kill Bill 3. Big Trouble In Little China 4. The Karate Kid 5. Best Of The Best 6. Rumble In The Bronx 7. Ninja (2009) 8. Undisputed 3 9. Undisputed 4 10. Blood and Bone
"Absolute garbage" ha ha ha ha And then you call me a "child" ha ha ha ha What kind of a fucking loser just straight up attacks people for liking movies they don't like? Dude, get a fucking grip ha ha ha @@chrisbgoodv2178
Bloodsport is a classic however it uses way too much slow motion to make the top ten for me. It's a great looking film and I sort of feel bad for leaving it off the top ten but in reality the martial arts action is just not that intense. I wish I could have put Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning on the list but do to the fact that we can't have a lot of gunplay on these lists I had to leave it off. My list is just my personal opinion. The Karate Kid has poor martial arts action but the story and the nostalgia is strong enough to secure it on my list. The same is true for Best Of The Best. But outside of that all the martial arts action on my list is really strong and brutal. @@stewarde17
I love Kickboxer, as a kid it was always preferred to Bloodsport. Looking back, I now know that to be crazy. One thing I never understood was that despite all the training in muay thai, Van Damme just resembles the same fighter in the end fight. The same fight moves he displayed in every film he did. So where is the muaythai?
Check your facts, the Machados did a lot of the training and choreography for Lethal Weapon 1. That’s why Riggs is hitting scissor sweeps, saeonagis and triangle chokes
Without a single Chuck Norris film this list is already Null and void. If we’re talking actual Martial Arts. The Karate Kid is terrible. Ralph Machio has zero believability, as a Martial Artist. Even The Last Dragon and Best of the Best should be off the Top Ten. The Perfect Weapon and Showdown in Little Tokyo or Rapid Fire should be listed above multiple others on this list.
@@JoBloOriginals Big troubles is more of a fantasy film, and Kill Bill could be classified as a samurai still film instead. Hard to make this list. Maybe a candidate film for the list should have the requirement of a montage.
I agree that everything on the list is deserving of a spot, but on a list with only 10 spots, maybe not the best idea to have Van Damme appear twice. Not sure what I'd take off to make room, but my list would have Roadhouse, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Mortal Kombat on it. These are hugely popular and unique films.
This is more of a most popular list? If anyone here is just looking for amazing martial arts movies I would suggest. Superfights, Lionheart, Rapid Fire, Ninja, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 and 2. The 3 Ninjas series. Sidekicks, The Perfect Weapon, The Power Within and Paper Tigers. Just to name a few.
The Best Of The Best. We have an Asian Fighter and a American Fighter who are best friends, a fighter who often meditates, and a heavy set fighter, going against other fighters who have a fighter with an eye patch on their team. Why is this so familiar???
What about The Perfect Weapon ??? Jeff Speakman was a real life martial artist. And the Ip Man movies?? Sadly the only 1 I've been about to buy on disc is Ip Man 3.
Look, JoBlos comment section is not exactly the most intelligent on this platform and that's me being nice. But he said what he said and added an "ever" in there. But hey, he could've added as a point to what he meant, but he didn't, so...
Movies in Karate Tiger series have the best movies. you only mention kick boxer and best of the best. I think American Shaolin, Super Fights, King of kick boxer and No retreat no surrender should be included. And Only the strong, Blood and bone, blood moon... are unforgettable.
Martial arts movies don’t include a lot of guns do they? Guns kind of go with samurai because the samurai knew how to use guns, and that’s also why the Japanese became interested in Cowboys in America. And then Bruce Lee shows up and wants to do a western called the Warrior. Personally, I prefer a pure mastered martial artist, also uses things like I don’t know, bows and arrows, darts, swords, kind of like Bruce Lee fighting the guards in enter the dragon.
I will say that while The Karate Kid was very influential in getting kids into martial arts, it was not a great martial arts movie and therefore should only be an honorable mention. Sidekicks was a better martial arts movie. You kept showing clips of Mortal Kombat, but didn't list it, that's a shame, it deserves to be on this list. I would say probably more than Big Trouble In Little China. And don't get me wrong, I absolutely love that movie, but there are better martial arts movies.
I agree. Repeatedly showing movies that weren't on the list was a bit of a cop out. Mortal Kombat was groundbreaking. And I'd argue for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the same reason.
EJ (the editor) and I went back and forth over whether to include it. Both of a felt it had to be on there as it really led to the popularization of martial arts in North America.
Best of the Best is one of my favorite movies of all time in any genre. I could legit watch it every day and not get tired of it. Back in the 90s I rented it at least 2 times a month. Until I got a job and had the money to go buy the vhs! I have the dvd but wish they had released a 4K version
I LOVED the other films after the first one,they are very entertaining and fun. Have them all on dvd.
You should checkout the UNDISPUTED film series,they're very good and entertaining.
Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Double Impact and Best of the best we're the movies that impacted me. Went to a martial arts journey training Taekwon-Do, Ju-Jutsu, Kickboxing and Muay Thai. Good times.
Appreciate you showing a clip from No Retreat, No Surrender. Also the first TMNT movie often gets overlooked in the martial arts movie genre.
Jeff Speakman's The Perfect Weapon and Jackie Chan's Drunken Master 2 should have made the list!
Drunken Master is Hong Kong - American movies only on this list
The Perfect weapon is great. I had never heard of it until my boss mentioned it earlier this year. No clue how it evaded me when I was younger, but it held up great in spite of some of its chessiness.
Way cool to see Best of the Best and Bloodsport here listed. Two of my absolute faves.
Nice list, No Retreat No Surrender should definitely be on there. The fight scenes in NRTS 2&3 with Loren Avedon are quality. Also, King of the Kickboxers with Billy Blanks as the villain, AWOL and China O'Brien all worth a watch.
The fact that 3 Ninjas didn't make the list could be considered a war crime
Dang, I have forgotten about that movie!!! Thank you for bringing that up now I have to go find it and watch it again!!
Agreed
What about Surf Ninjas?
Should* 😢
@@TurdFergusson318 money cant buy knives
Best of the Best is always overlooked. Props for putting it on the list.
Rapid Fire(1992), Excessive Force(1993) and Only The Strong(1993) i feel deserved to be an honorable mention atleast...Otherwise, good list nonetheless
Rapid Fire is one of the most underrated movies from the 90s. Still watch it every couple of years
I love Only the Strong!!
All of these movies are mid in my opinion, but they are memorable for one reason or another. Hard to live up to expectations when your father is a legend, but Brandon Lee did a pretty good job with Rapid Fire , and I also liked him and Dolph Lundgren in Showdown in Little Tokyo. Excessive Force gave Thomas Ian Griffith more of a chance to show off his martial arts skills than he had in Karate Kid III. Only the Strong is worth mentioning for being the only movie to feature capoeira front and center.
Rapid Fire is more enjoyable than any Bruce Lee movie. There, I said it.
I loved Kill Bill, Kickboxer, and Last Dragon. The Last Dragon is such a great time capsule.
Who’s the master?!
@@leeroygreene85SHO-NUFF!!!
New video perfect ranking the way I loved it especially in martial arts movies ranking especially on Numbers 4 3 2 1 that was perfect. You did your homework. Right and I loved it.
That was your BEST intro ever, perfectly written, edited, narrated, and a great selection of old ass clips of old dudes doing basic stuff back in the day and progressing thru the years :) Ya'll getting better all the time, love ya!!!
I think this was a fair list. I would like to suggest Billy Jack from 1971. For its time, it was a successful independent film that the hero showcases martial arts mainly hapkido, and tae kwon do.
Amen!!!
Absolutely!!
Blood and Bone (Michael Jai White).
Perfect Weapon (Jeff Speakman)
Love both movies
I think there might be a few more to add to the list. Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx, broke wide in the US and established him as a martial arts star. I get that it wasn't "American" made, but it took place in the US. Followed up with some Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon. At the very least, an honorable mention.
Ya, they filmed it in Canada
Not a bad list. Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack introduced HAPKIDO to the US. Thanks for mentioning Jim Kelly. My personal favorite of his is "Black Samurai" where he plays a government agent.
Best of the Best is #1. Storyline, action, and actors!
100% a great film. 2 was not bad, but 3 and 4 were not good
Overall a good list, but you probably could’ve done a two-way tie with Bloodsport and Kickboxer, and you could’ve put The Perfect Weapon in your list. That is one of the most underrated martial arts films from the 90s. It’s a crying shame Jeff Speakman didn’t have a better career though. Hollywood just didn’t know what to do with him. While I do enjoy the early Seagal films, I think Marked for Death and Out for Justice are slightly (and I do mean “slightly”) better than Above the Law, but I’m just nitpicking at this point.
Such a perfect timing, I was actually looking for some martial art movies to watch. Now I to add 10 more movies. Hopefully you guys do Hong Kong movies as well. Love the video. Have a nice Sunday!
As a life-long martial arts fanatic I recently checked out the first American Ninja flick and was not impressed. It was very disappointing for a franchise I'd been hearing about for decades.
The Perfect Weapon on the otherhand was a nice retro surprise. Speakman was really fast and it was a lot of fun to watch him kick some ass.
American ninja was brilliant for its time ,no 1 had seen that shit before
@@Billybhoy American Ninja is garbage. Any real martial artist knows better
It's certainly not going to impress if your focus is solely on the martial arts. American Ninja's appeal is more in the whole package. A charismatic lead, interesting concept, good soundtrack, and for its time pretty good fight choreography. Ninja and Asian mysticism were still relatively unknown territory in the 80's. I think Canon executed it pretty well.
American Ninja is one of my favorites! The first three were part of my childhood!
@@KoshoShinogiyeah it was pretty obvious he had no martial arts background (I also saw no discernable charmisma, but that's me).
A far cry from the stuff Sho Kosugi had been doing in that era, which I find far more entertaining.
Where is "Rapid Fire" & "The Perfect Weapon"" on this list? Brandon Lee, choreographed "Rapid Fire" and the son of the legendary Bruce Lee. Jeff Speakman was very underrated in general.
When a list starts off with undisputed 2, you know it’s gonna be good.
The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie should have been in the honorable mention. Those martial artists in turtle costume have done so many martial art moves.
I think NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER shoulda been on this list, or gotten honorable mention.
I love that Best of the Best and Last Dragon made the list! I love the top 5, but I'm really surprised no American made Jackie Chan movies made the list. For some reason I thought Rumble in the Bronx and Who Am I were considered American made, but I'm thinking they were still Hong Kong made (even though Rumble in the Bronx always stuck out to me as Jackie's first American movie). I guess the only one that would qualify would be Rush Hour then...and while that one is amazing it is more comedy than martial arts.
Nailed it. Best of the best is one of those movies when you watched it you will always remember it. the last dragon also a classic.. so many great movies. I would mention what you keep showing which was Only the strong, and heck even drunken master. another fun showing in my opinion. either way still nailed this list. cheers.
I miss Perfect Weapon and Only the Strong
I think blind fury should have been on this list
No honourable mention of No retreat no Surrender or.......a Fist Full Of Yen?
No Retreat No Surrender was not a good movie by any metric. Fun? Yes. But the acting, the editing, the dubbing, and the story were not of a caliber to land on a top 10 list.
Fist Full of Yen, I don't know. Is it an American movie?
@@KoshoShinogi I have to agree on NRNS. I love that film to this day, but cheesy as hell
No retreat, no surrender for me
Excellent list. No arguments here.
I think the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie belongs in there
I SECOND THIS!!!
Unlike in the Karate Kid, when you really get injured doing martial arts, the instructor tells you to go to a doctor. Sadly, I didn't know that as a 10-year-old. American Ninja was also good. Great list.
I love these American Martial Arts Movies. They really motivate people to become better tomorrow in the future. Hollywood just don't want to take these kind of risk in doing it anymore. Instead, they're doing John Wick style, oh come on, none of us are buying that. We need those old school martial arts movies again.
I can't really argue with this list, definitely brought back memories of my younger self renting these movies on VHS. Damn, I'm feel very old for saying that. Lol!
How did u not put No Retreat No Surrender and Perfect Weapon woww but great video
fantastic list. my addition would be Redbelt; it's more of a drama, but superb nevertheless.
Since you been doing lists on hard to find movies, best of the best two is one of the hardest to find movies on DVD
"The Challenge"(1982) with Scott Glenn and Toshiro Mifune should be on this list.
If you're talking the best movie to feature martial arts the it has to be The Karate Kid and it's not even close. If you're talking about the best martial arts in American movies then Karate kid does not make the top 100 so it's a tough movie to rank but i'm glad it made the list. Leaving out The Matrix because it has guns was a bit harsh, but understandable, i think that would have been number 1
I think I saw an "Only the Strong" clip at the end there....another underrated American Martial Arts movie. I saw the end credits made reference to "No Retreat No Surrender" but I must have missed the clip in the video. I loved that movie as a kid, but don't think it really holds up today other than a fun cheesy 80s movie with good soundtrack (if you watch the right version with "Stand on your own").
As a Kid I was hooked on American Ninja.
I don't envy this assignment. Hard to get it right, hard to get it wrong. Still...great list.
... ninja turtles should have made this list for real! 😢
This is a pretty good list.
Another great martial arts film is Lionheart/Wrong Bet. Van Damme butt-kicking excellence. Don’t know if it deserves at top 10 place, but it’s up there
No retreat, No Surrender!
No.
It's a bad movie on so many levels. Enjoyable to a martial arts film buff, but in the same category of forgettable B-movie slosh from Billy Blanks, Don Wilson and the like.
@KoalaKimKnits It was certainly memorable enough for Scott Adkins to do an Art of Action episode on the lead, Kurt McKinney, despite that basically being his one and only martial arts film credit.
So many gems
1. Enter The Dragon
2. Kill Bill
3. Big Trouble In Little China
4. The Karate Kid
5. Best Of The Best
6. Rumble In The Bronx
7. Ninja (2009)
8. Undisputed 3
9. Undisputed 4
10. Blood and Bone
Ninja and Undisputed 4 are absolute garbage.
I suppose children will have child-like tastes in cinema.
"Absolute garbage" ha ha ha ha And then you call me a "child" ha ha ha ha What kind of a fucking loser just straight up attacks people for liking movies they don't like? Dude, get a fucking grip ha ha ha @@chrisbgoodv2178
there just no way you could leave bloodsport off the list
Bloodsport is a classic however it uses way too much slow motion to make the top ten for me. It's a great looking film and I sort of feel bad for leaving it off the top ten but in reality the martial arts action is just not that intense.
I wish I could have put Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning on the list but do to the fact that we can't have a lot of gunplay on these lists I had to leave it off.
My list is just my personal opinion. The Karate Kid has poor martial arts action but the story and the nostalgia is strong enough to secure it on my list. The same is true for Best Of The Best. But outside of that all the martial arts action on my list is really strong and brutal. @@stewarde17
💯 facts , bloodsport missing is criminal
Eric Roberts is a underrated Actor
I love Kickboxer, as a kid it was always preferred to Bloodsport. Looking back, I now know that to be crazy. One thing I never understood was that despite all the training in muay thai, Van Damme just resembles the same fighter in the end fight. The same fight moves he displayed in every film he did. So where is the muaythai?
Love all these films
Check your facts, the Machados did a lot of the training and choreography for Lethal Weapon 1. That’s why Riggs is hitting scissor sweeps, saeonagis and triangle chokes
Van damme is the best , also steven seagal , scott adkins👍👍
Good list.
Without a single Chuck Norris film this list is already Null and void.
If we’re talking actual Martial Arts. The Karate Kid is terrible. Ralph Machio has zero believability, as a Martial Artist. Even The Last Dragon and Best of the Best should be off the Top Ten. The Perfect Weapon and Showdown in Little Tokyo or Rapid Fire should be listed above multiple others on this list.
Tokyo and Rapid Fire are more conventional action that straight martial arts. Love them both though.
@@JoBloOriginals Big troubles is more of a fantasy film, and Kill Bill could be classified as a samurai still film instead. Hard to make this list. Maybe a candidate film for the list should have the requirement of a montage.
Those Ninja movies and Best of the Best inspired me to get a Brown Belt in Korean fighting style. It is much prettier than effective
No surf ninjas? What a crime 😢
BLOODSPORT!!!!!!! And my sister always said Best of the Best Part 2 was better than the original but I've never seen it so I can't complain lol
I'll only give a hint for the movie saying
"And now for a taste of things to come".
I agree that everything on the list is deserving of a spot, but on a list with only 10 spots, maybe not the best idea to have Van Damme appear twice.
Not sure what I'd take off to make room, but my list would have Roadhouse, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Mortal Kombat on it. These are hugely popular and unique films.
Hard for me not to include Kickboxer and Bloodsport though. If I had to bounce one maybe Above the Law
Good video this. Steven Seagal is THE best after Bruce Lee. SS is so strong and fast
Not sure I get your Sean Penn comment? Sammo Hung may beg to differ on "overweight".
This is more of a most popular list? If anyone here is just looking for amazing martial arts movies I would suggest. Superfights, Lionheart, Rapid Fire, Ninja, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 and 2. The 3 Ninjas series. Sidekicks, The Perfect Weapon, The Power Within and Paper Tigers. Just to name a few.
The Best Of The Best. We have an Asian Fighter and a American Fighter who are best friends, a fighter who often meditates, and a heavy set fighter, going against other fighters who have a fighter with an eye patch on their team. Why is this so familiar???
WMAC Masters?
Mortal kombat was basically enter the dragon
No, Mortal Kombat was basically Enter the Dragon.
I heard there were multiple things that inspired it such as bloodsport aswell, which is why johhny cage was based on vandam@@user-justmyself1701
Yes that was what I meant will correct
@@user-justmyself1701
No Wesley Snipes? Passenger 57, Drop Zone and we can't forget BLADE
Best Of The Best 2 is better. I love this list though.
Stay tuned for more best of the best 2 content
How about The Quest?
Best of the best was a great movie growing up with!
What about Bloodmoon?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1990 imo deserves a honorable mention. Otherwise great list though 👍
What about The Perfect Weapon ??? Jeff Speakman was a real life martial artist.
And the Ip Man movies?? Sadly the only 1 I've been about to buy on disc is Ip Man 3.
Eric Roberts is an actual martial artist. And it wasn't just for best of the best. He said it himself, just doesn't like to talk about it.
How serious of a movie makes the cut? I feel like TMNT had a significant impact on Martial Arts...
Bloodsport is the Goat😅
Ninja Turtles 1 was a major omission. Come on!
What no Jackie Chan movies!!??
I was hoping to hear some samurai additions: chiefly, Master (Henry-Hiroyuki) Sanada... just saying
How is The Matrix 1 not on this list?!?
No RUSH HOUR movies?
He said best
Kung Pow: Enter The Fist is not #1... So I will be rioting at dawn...
Lolz!
I mean they didn’t even bring up Billy Jack.
No. BLOODSPORT is the ultimate martial art movie period
"Bruce Lees only american movie". That's not true, he also starred in Marlowe from 1969 as the villain.
He was referring to Martial arts movies
Look, JoBlos comment section is not exactly the most intelligent on this platform and that's me being nice. But he said what he said and added an "ever" in there. But hey, he could've added as a point to what he meant, but he didn't, so...
@@wedgeantilles4712 Context is King
I could make a list and never touch a Steven Seagal film or Kill Bill.
Kung Fu - the original made-for-television movie starring David Carradine (broadcast in February 1972).😀😀😀
Drive should be in this list
Drive is such a hidden gem. That and Crying Freeman are peak Mark Dacascos.
@@KoshoShinogi facts bro, steve wang knows how to dirrect.
Ninja 3 the domination is a classic horror ninja film
Movies in Karate Tiger series have the best movies. you only mention kick boxer and best of the best. I think American Shaolin, Super Fights, King of kick boxer and No retreat no surrender should be included. And Only the strong, Blood and bone, blood moon... are unforgettable.
Cool
🤔 Then put on some more clothes !!. Who still says that today ?...
You sure as shit won't find The Miami Connection on this list. Lol
to bad my favorite didn't make it "no retreat no surrender"
No Kung Fu Panda??!
Michel Qissi -"KEE-say"
I train karate thanks to the karate kid
Martial arts movies don’t include a lot of guns do they? Guns kind of go with samurai because the samurai knew how to use guns, and that’s also why the Japanese became interested in Cowboys in America. And then Bruce Lee shows up and wants to do a western called the Warrior. Personally, I prefer a pure mastered martial artist, also uses things like I don’t know, bows and arrows, darts, swords, kind of like Bruce Lee fighting the guards in enter the dragon.
I thought Daniel's Kata was Beautiful
I will say that while The Karate Kid was very influential in getting kids into martial arts, it was not a great martial arts movie and therefore should only be an honorable mention. Sidekicks was a better martial arts movie. You kept showing clips of Mortal Kombat, but didn't list it, that's a shame, it deserves to be on this list. I would say probably more than Big Trouble In Little China. And don't get me wrong, I absolutely love that movie, but there are better martial arts movies.
I agree. Repeatedly showing movies that weren't on the list was a bit of a cop out. Mortal Kombat was groundbreaking. And I'd argue for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the same reason.
@@KoshoShinogi I absolutely agree. I didn't even think about Ninja turtles but now that you brought it up that was excellent
EJ (the editor) and I went back and forth over whether to include it. Both of a felt it had to be on there as it really led to the popularization of martial arts in North America.
Big Trouble is amazing, no no no Segal actually hurt stuntmen and all around bad person, I can never respect him!