As usual, for the third stage of voting we are saving the most interesting nominations: best big-budget action project, best martial arts film, best actor and actress in an action film, and, of course, best screen fight of the past year.
After this vote, our editors will collect all the data about the winners and begin text analytics, which (we hope) you are waiting for on our website! In the meantime, cast your votes for the best!
ATTENTION! You can vote directly for THREE candidates! So the voting results seem much fairer to us.
Please remember that this voting is intended to find out which of the options in each category were most liked by the audience. This is not a competition between fans of this or that actor or film!
THIRD voting block:
Blockbuster 2021
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (dir. Destin Daniel Cretton) (21%, 35 Votes)
- Spider-Man: No Way Home (dir. Jon Watts) (15%, 26 Votes)
- Dune (dir. Denis Villeneuve) (15%, 25 Votes)
- Zack Snyder's Justice League (dir. Zack Snyder) (12%, 20 Votes)
- Suicide Squad: Mission Beast (dir. James Gunn) (12%, 20 Votes)
- No Time to Die (dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga) (11%, 18 Votes)
- Mortal Kombat (dir. Simon McQuoid) (9%, 15 Votes)
- Fast and Furious 9 (dir. Justin Lin) (3%, 5 Votes)
- The Matrix: Resurrection (dir. Lana Wachowski) (2%, 4 Votes)
- Infinity (dir. Antoine Fuqua) (1%, 2 Votes)
Total voters: 75
Best Action Film Actor 2021
- Joe Taslim (Mortal Kombat) (20%, 37 Votes)
- Scott Adkins (One Shot, Castle Falls) (16%, 30 Votes)
- Vidyut Jamwal (Strength, Psycho) (15%, 28 Votes)
- Donnie Yen (Crossfire) (13%, 24 Votes)
- Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) (7%, 13 Votes)
- Theo Garcia (Extremo) (7%, 12 Votes)
- Sean Patrick Flanery (Born of a Champion, Attack on Veterans Hospital, Person of Interest) (6%, 11 Votes)
- Junichi Okada (Fable 2: The Hitman Who Doesn't Kill) (5%, 10 Votes)
- Nicholas Tse (Crossfire) (4%, 8 Votes)
- Roman Kurtsyn (Le.Gen.Da, Walk, Vasya! Date in Bali) (3%, 6 Votes)
- Andrew Koji (GI Joe. Rise of Cobra: Snake Eyes) (3%, 5 Votes)
Total voters: 78
Best Action Film Actress 2021
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Kate) (18%, 27 Votes)
- Michelle Yeoh (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Gunpowder Cocktail) (14%, 22 Votes)
- Han So-hee (For Revenge) (14%, 21 Votes)
- Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow) (13%, 20 Votes)
- Anya de Armas (No Time to Die) (10%, 16 Votes)
- Maggie Q (Killer Code) (8%, 13 Votes)
- Kate Beckinsale (Pretty on Fire) (7%, 11 Votes)
- Andrea Duro (Extremo) (6%, 9 Votes)
- Samara Weaving (GI Joe. Rise of Cobra: Snake Eyes) (5%, 8 Votes)
- Angelina Jolie (Those Who Wish Me Dead) (5%, 7 Votes)
- Olivia Popica (Never Back Down: Riot) (0%, 0 Votes)
Total voters: 71
Martial arts movie 2021
- Crossfire (dir. Benny Chan) (21%, 35 Votes)
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (dir. Destin Daniel Cretton) (16%, 26 Votes)
- Psycho (dir. Kanishk Varma) (15%, 25 Votes)
- Extreme (dir. Daniel Benmaur) (14%, 23 Votes)
- Paper Tigers (dir. Quoc Bao Tran) (13%, 21 Votes)
- Hobo Kenshin: Endgame (dir. Keishi Otomo) (11%, 18 Votes)
- Born a Champion (dir. Alex Ranarivelo) (4%, 7 Votes)
- Bartkowiak (dir. Daniel Markovic) (4%, 6 Votes)
- Jay 2: Retaliation (dir. Nazrul Ashraf Mazan, Nazim Shah) (3%, 5 Votes)
- Never Give Up: Riot (dir. Kelly Madison) (1%, 1 Votes)
Total voters: 74
Best Screen Fight 2021
- Donnie Yen vs. Nicholas Tse (Crossfire) (16%, 30 Votes)
- Bob Odenkirk vs. Gopniks on the Bus (Nobody) (14%, 27 Votes)
- Vidyut Jamwal vs Terrorists in Physiotherapy Room (Psycho) (10%, 19 Votes)
- Simu Liu vs. Mercenaries on the Bus (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) (9%, 17 Votes)
- Vidyut Jamwal vs Du Au and Felix Fukuyoshi (Psycho) (7%, 14 Votes)
- Hiroyuki Sanada vs Lin Kuei and Joe Taslim (Motral Kombat) (6%, 12 Votes)
- Takeru Sato vs. Makenyu Arata (Vagabond Kenshin: Finale) (6%, 11 Votes)
- Simu Liu and Zhang Meng'er vs. Scaffolding Mercenaries (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) (5%, 10 Votes)
- Scott Adkins vs. Jess Liodin (One Shot) (5%, 9 Votes)
- Matt Damon vs Adam Driver (The Last Duel) (5%, 9 Votes)
- Lewis Tan and Hiroyuki Sanada vs. Joe Taslim (Mortal Kombat) (5%, 9 Votes)
- Theo Garcia vs. Mercenaries in the Garage (Extremo) (3%, 6 Votes)
- Margot Robbie vs. the military at the mansion (Suicide Squad: Mission Beast) (3%, 6 Votes)
- Jozef Pawlowski vs. Damian Majewski (Bartkowiak) (3%, 5 Votes)
- Khoharullah Majid vs Azlan Komeng (Warriors of Silat) (1%, 2 Votes)
- Zul Arifin against the bandits in the kitchen (Jay 2: Retribution) (1%, 1 Votes)
- Omid Zader vs. Two Opponents in the Corridor (Over the Edge) (1%, 1 Votes)
Total voters: 77
Haha, Scott Adkins didn't make it to first place, and Donnie Yen fell out of the top three altogether. Quite unexpected. But I’m definitely happy for Joe Taslim! He is cool!
I remember last year or the year before it was very difficult to vote for the best screen fight, because everyone wanted to give votes.
In this case, only the fight between Donnie Yen and Nicholas Tse has a wow effect.
Well, the rest have interesting tricks. For example, Scott Adkins and Matt Damon pleased us with realism. Zul Arifin - cool first-person inserts, this is still rare (like realism). Margot Robbie was filmed with such madness, it turned out interesting from a purely director’s point of view. In Vidyut Jamwal's fights, you root for his opponents - they are really awesome fighters, especially Du Au with Felix Fukuyoshi. Which one is which, but I especially liked the first one. Vidyut clearly won there only with plot armor. “Warriors of Silat” also pleased me, but also upset me with some dullness and artificiality: excellent technique, and (for me) the strongest sense of staging. For example, they often hit not in such a way as to hit, but in such a way that the enemy could dodge, parry, or carry out a countermeasure. Well, in Mortal Kombat I root for Sub Zero - Taslim.
The situation with Mortal Kombat is generally the most controversial. On the one hand, well, awesome. On the other hand, this is Mortal Kombat, it should have been better! He didn't reach the level he should be at. That is, it can take a place in both the best films and the biggest disappointments at the same time.
I think I’ll give second place to “Tramp Kenshin.” Apart from a few moments with cables or supernatural blows, there is simply awesome combat in three-dimensional space: below, above, in every way. It takes incredible skill to stage and film something like this, not to mention a real fight like this.
I'll think about third place. Simu Liu didn't like the fight on the scaffolding so much as the short fight right after it. The coolest thing there is that his opponent easily moved along the lower level, attacking from unexpected positions.
Ps By the way, can anyone tell me or remind me of other fights like this, where opponents can move like this almost in a prone position, and hit from unexpected, impossible positions?
Wave,
The first one is Doo Au :)
While I was typing a comment and voting, the video from "Vagabond Kenshin" was removed from public access.
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The video has been replaced)