Top 10 Movie Action Sequences of 2022

After some self-imposed delays to do some quality control on the list, my celebration of 2022's finest movie action sequences has finally arrived. While there weren't any truly unbelievable sequences like the simulated one take from Extraction, the climactic warehouse fight from Nobody or the police station scene from Birds of Prey delivered in the first years of the 2020's, there was still a healthy amount of inventive, well-choreographed action that elevated the quality of the films they appeared in this past year. Videos all of 10 scenes are below (for now at least, several of these will be gone in short order due to YouTube's wonderful copyright policy). Hope you enjoy and see you next year for-which should be a doozy with new John Wick, Mission-Impossible and Extraction movies on the docket for 2023. 

Honorable Mentions:

"Hospital Fight" (The Gray Man) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_mQ1SJdo4g

"Gym Fight" (The Man from Toronto) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pprnEUHjL7E

"Village Raid" (The Northman) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCF0vvExU-8

"Ram Does Crowd Control" (RRR) (Apologies for the poor quality)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZEPqZemuX8

"Santa Reluctantly Returns to Kicking Ass" (Violent Night) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOyOczqdUxY

10."Iceberg Lounge Fight" (The Batman)

9."The Princess Gets Her Family Out of Jail" (The Princess)

(Note: My apologies for posting for this needlessly long clip that features the full trailer. It was the only video I could find of this fight sequence.) 

8."Waymond Wang vs. Security Guards" (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

7."Santa Gets Creative with Ornaments" (Violent Night)

6."The Ajoujie Ambush" (The Woman King) 

5."Beachside Ambush"(The Big 4)

 

 4."The Chase Scene That Makes Up 75% of Ambulance" (Ambulance)

 

(Note: While I obviously can't just hurl the entire movie onto this page, this 3-minute snippet does a good job of capturing the pandemonium that Michael Bay captured with this movie. It's streaming on Prime Video right now and I can't recommend it enough to anyone who enjoys batshit crazy action movies). 

3."Battle with the Oyo" (The Woman King)

(Note: The final 90 or so seconds of this clip is from the final fight scene, which is especially odd since the rest of this scene is from the middle of the movie) 

 

  2."Clearing a Vampire Hive" (Day Shift)

 

 1."Final Fight" (RRR)