There were even great fight scenes in non-action movies, like the body horror opusThe Substance.

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Boy Kills Worldhas some of the gnarliest on-screen violence of the year.

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This movie is wall-to-wall shock value, but it saves its most shocking violence until the final fight.

Boy and Mina battle the Shaman in the underground parking lot of the Van Der Koys compound.

The fight takes them into a river, where Rome is symbolically reborn.

William Afton looking menacing in Five Nights at Freddy’s

As this fight scene kicks off,The Substancesuddenly turns into a Bruce Lee kung fu movie.

Elisabeth is launched across the apartment and smashed through tables and mirrors as a superpowered Sue exacts her revenge.

The choreography is suitably brutal; throughout the entire duel, each character is seconds away from death.

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For the duration of this fight, Villeneuve succeeds in making the audience forget that Paul has plot armor.

1Deadpool & Wolverine Vs.

But arguably the greatest fight scene in the movie is when they finally team up.

Collage of Wolverine fighting Deadpool variants in Deadpool and Wolverine and Paul holding a knife in Dune Part Two

Shawn Levy shoots the sequence with an engaging tracking shot slowly moving down the street.

Boy and Mina in the final fight of Boy Kills World

Macrinus on horseback holding a sword in Gladiator II

Sue fighting Elisabeth in the bathroom in The Substance

Paul and Feyd-Rautha prepare to fight with knives in Dune Part Two

Deadpool and Wolverine fighting the Deadpool Corps in Deadpool and Wolverine

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