The 10 Best Movie Sword Fights
En Garde!
Adventures of Robin Hood
Most of the movies on this list are pretty recent since the majority of the movies I've seen are recent. But one of the few old school movies that I've seen that still holds up is the one and only Errol Flynn donning the green Robin Hood tights.
Blade
Where have you gone Wesley Snipes? Wesley Snipes hasn't done anything significant lately but at least he went out with a great sword fight against Stephen Dorff in the first Blade movie.
Gladiator
I have to admit that despite his great acting ability I wasn't really familiar with Russell Crowe until he fought off that gladiator with the mask and a tiger at the same time in movie Gladiator.
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 1 as a whole wasn't my favorite movie, and Vol. 2 is definitely superior but no woman has swung a sword like the Bride taking on the Crazy 88.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Critics will give you many reasons that the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean movie weren't as good as the first but very few of them bring up my problem with the Pirates movies. There is no fight scene the rest of the series that lives up to the sword fight between Jack Sparrow and Will Turner when they first meet.
Princess Bride
The sword fight between Westley and Inigo Montoya is probably my favorite sword fight of all-time. There is an odd friendliness and a lot of respect between the two. The sword fight has some fun stunts and the whole, "I'm not really left-handed" bit is nice too.
Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
Maybe the actual sword fighting wasn't revolutionary but Vader chops off Luke Skywalker's hand and then tells Luke that he is his father. Classic.
Star Wars: Phantom Menace
I tried not to load up too much on light saber fight and decided to keep it to one from each trilogy. I know a lot of people will pick the Yoda fight from the second trilogy but I'm a bigger fan of the Darth Maul fight.
Troy
Brad Pitt as Achilles? Eh. Troy the movie? Eh. The sword fight between Achilles and Hector? Awesome!
Willow
As he tells us in the movie, Madmartigan is the "greatest swordsman that ever lived." Maybe the sword fight wasn't as good as the rest on this list but when I was a kid I was totally into Madmartigan kicking General Kael's butt.
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Post a Commentadd braveheart one of the best movies and good job on gladiator but kill bill is not a good movie at all and props on troy
NO HIGLANDER? BLASPHEMY!
really though...lord of the RINGS!!!!!!!
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i m really impressed by gladiater i thnk this type of picture are made some time or we sey one time in no of years.
Highlander and Cyrano are both good choices too. Good thinking!
Why isn't Highlander on this list?
Yes, because I have a different opinion I MUST not know my movie history. Truth is I've seen two of the first three movies that came to mind for Mr. Marquis. I didn't include the Sea Hawk because I just didn't like it. I didn't add Captain Blood because I figured one Errol Flynn vs. Basil Rathbone sword fight was enough. Sorry if my knowledge in movies isn't good enough for you Marquis but how many other 27 years old do you know that have actually seen three Errol Flynn movies or even know who Errol Flynn is? I would imagine not many.
By first, I mean the chronologically, not in order of appearance. Not sure that was obvious.
I guess we can assume that it was Marquis who downrated this article. I always find it funny when Marquis complains about other not knowing film history. Check his articles and you'll find pretty much no mention of any movie that isn't on the AFI 100 Years list. Talk about a guy with no knowledge of film history. I was going to write this article topic today but did a search first to make sure I wouldn't step on anyone's toes. My two faves are Princess Bride and Phantom Menace. I guess phredude needs to read my articles that prove the first trilogy was superior, huh?
Nice and enjoyable article, I am definately for Gladiator!!