Jason Statham is one of the best action heroes in movies today. He’s one of the only significant action stars who can still draw people to theaters and make money. However, Statham is nothing like fellow action stars like Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves, Liam Neeson, and Denzel Washington. Instead, he’s an old-school action hero, using martial arts and hand-to-hand combat.
Over the last two decades, Statham has been a legitimate action star in both stand-alone movies and in a few franchises. He has appeared in sci-fi and horror movies like The Meg and The One, and big-budget blockbusters like The Fast & The Furious movies and The Expendables.
While Statham has a lot of wild scenes in his movies, such as fighting a giant prehistoric shark, fans mostly want to see him punching, killing, stabbing, and shooting bad guys in the most brutal ways possible, and the best Jason Statham action scenes match up with anyone in the movie industry.
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The Kaiju Fight In Crank: High Voltage
Chev Chelios Vs. Johnny Vang
- Release Date
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April 16, 2009
- Runtime
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85 minutes
- Director
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Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
- Writers
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Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Most of Jason Statham’s best fight scenes involve him going head-to-head with enemies and coming out the victor in most cases. However, that’s not what happened in Crank: High Voltage.
The first Crank movie saw Chev Chelios drugged, and if his heart drops below a certain rate, he dies, so he must find a way to keep it up while searching for a cure. The sequel took the idea and pushed it to the extreme.
He sees himself and Johnny Vang as two giant kaijus.
In Crank: High Voltage, things got even more ridiculous, and that was shown in what is known as the “kaiju fight.” There isn’t an actual kaiju here, but Chev hallucinates after sending too much electricity through his body during his fight.
He sees himself and Johnny Vang as two giant kaijus, and the two have a brawl in slow motion as the giants. It ends when Chev finally flies through the air and defeats Johnny while people watch from a distance in astonishment.
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Subway Fight In Safe
Luke Vs. The Russian Mob
In Safe, Jason Statham plays Luke Wright, a former police officer and cage fighter who accidentally wins a fixed fight, angering the mob. When they kill his pregnant wife and promise to kill anyone who assists him, he goes off the grid and lives on the streets.
When the mob kidnaps a young Chinese mathematical prodigy and forces her to work for them, Luke sees her in danger and steps up to save her and become her protector, while seeking revenge against the people who killed his wife.
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The first fight, when he begins to protect her, is the best Jason Statham fight scene in Safe. This happens on a train when Luke is contemplating suicide. However, when he sees one of the mobsters chasing the girl is one of the men who killed his wife, his training kicks in, and he goes to war with them.
The subway fight sees Luke battling several men on the subway train, using everything in the car to his advantage before finally finishing off the man who helped kill his wife. It was intense and the start of a longer scene that ended in a car chase and gunfight.
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Fighting Multiple Bad Guys In Hobbs & Shaw (While Hobbs Fights One)
Deckard Shaw Vs. 7 Guards
5/10
- Release Date
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August 2, 2019
- Runtime
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133 minutes
- Director
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David Leitch
- Writers
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Chris Morgan
One of Jason Statham’s best fight scenes came in Hobbs & Shaw, while remaining entertaining and funny. Deckard Shaw and Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) were infiltrating a building, and they had two doors to choose from. They each chose a different door. Hobbs went into his room, and there was only one big guy there he had to fight.
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However, Shaw had seven mercenaries waiting for him. This offered Statham a brilliant chance for the choreographed fight, in a small, narrow hallway where he had to get through the seven mercenaries as Hobbs stood on the other side of a mirror, looking bored as he fought his one enemy.
Statham used great martial arts skills and brawling techniques to fight through all seven men and defeat them all.
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Diner Fight With A Spoon & Butter Knife In Wild Card
Nick Wild Vs. Danny DeMarco & His Goons
- Release Date
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January 14, 2015
- Runtime
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92 Minutes
- Director
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Simon West
- Writers
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William Goldman
One of Jason Statham’s most creative fight scenes came at the end of his underrated 2015 action-thriller Wild Card. In this film, Statham plays Nick Wild, a chaperone in Las Vegas (mostly a bodyguard) who is a recovering gambling addict.
He ends up on the wrong side of a gangster named Danny when he attacks him and his men after they raped a close friend of his. He then becomes friends with a self-made millionaire named Cyrus, who wants Nick to help teach him how to be brave.
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That is what led to the big Jason Statham fight scene. Nick and Cyrus are at a diner, and that is when the gangster and his men show up. Cyrus finally shows his courage and distracts the gangsters, allowing Nick to escape.
When he hears them say they will kill Cyrus because of this, Nick leaps into action. His only weapons were a spoon and a butter knife from the restaurant, and that’s all he needed to kill Danny and all his goons in the back alley behind the diner.
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Church Fight In The Expendables 2
Lee Christmas Vs. Six Sangs Gang Members
Jason Statham had a lot of great fight scenes in the Expendables franchise. In the first movie, he had a basketball court fight with a man who was abusive to his ex, and it was a brilliant lesson in brutality.
However, his best fight scene in the entire franchise came in The Expendables 2 when he dressed up like a priest to lead six bad guys into his trap. The men, part of the criminal group known as the Sangs, were looking for the team and warned the “priest” to stay out of their way.
Statham is using his fists and several knives he had stashed inside the priest’s robe.
Lee Christmas then pulls out a knife, stabs the first man, and then the fight starts. One thing that holds the fight down a little is that it keeps intercutting with other members of the team fighting outside the church and around the community.
However, while Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren use guns, Statham is using his fists and several knives he had stashed inside the priest’s robe. Yu Nan has some nice moves outside as Maggie, but Statham steals the scene with his brutal fighting skills.
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The Parking Garage Fight In The Transporter
Frank Martin Vs. Car Jackers
6/10
- Release Date
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June 19, 2015
- Runtime
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101minutes
- Director
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Louis Leterrier, Corey Yuen
- Writers
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Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
The first Transporter movie showed Jason Statham at his best, a man whose job is working as a courier who delivers products without question, and usually without knowing what he is delivering. However, in the Transporter’s first movie, he makes the mistake of looking and realizes he is human trafficking a young woman.
He has a strong moral code and won’t follow orders this time, which puts him at odds with the people who hired him. The film showed early why he is a man who knows how to fight.
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He is in a parking garage, preparing for his mission, when a young woman dressed like a schoolgirl raps at his window. He tries to blow her off, so she pulls a gun and demands he exit the car. Four guys immediately jump in and try to leave, but it won’t start without a code.
This leads to a one-sided fight, where they surround Frank, and he dismantles them in short order before the young woman with the gun runs. The best part was that Frank just straightened his jacket and left calmly, with the guys unconscious around his car.
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Prison Breakout In The Fate Of The Furious
Deckard Shaw & Luke Hobbs Vs. Prisoners & Guards
6/10
- Release Date
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April 14, 2017
- Runtime
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136 minutes
- Director
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F. Gary Gray
- Writers
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Chris Morgan
Jason Statham had a lot of great fight scenes in the Fast & Furious franchise, from the time when he was a villain in Furious 7 to his rehabilitation and role as part of the team in later films in the series.
However, one of the best came in The Fate of the Furious, where Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and Shaw (Statham) were in prison and a breakout was staged. Neither man knew this was planned, and it all started when Hobbs saw Shaw and said he would beat him up if they ended up together, which led to Hobbs’ cell door opening.
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Hobbs refused to leave, but the prison guards showed up anyway to threaten him. That is when Shaw reached through his cell, grabbed one, fried the system, which opened every other cell, and the prison riot began.
Shaw tried to escape, and Hobbs went to stop him, fighting guards and prisoners along the way. Shaw, meanwhile, was beating up everyone he faced until he and Hobbs finally stood face-to-face to fight. That is when Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell) stepped in and said it was all planned, recruiting both men.
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Fight Vs. Jet Li In War
John Crawford Vs. Tom Lone/Rogue
- Release Date
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August 24, 2007
- Runtime
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103 minutes
- Director
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Philip G. Atwell
- Writers
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Gregory J. Bradley
- Producers
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Christopher Petzel, Jim Thompson, Michael Paseornek, Mike Elliott, Peter Block
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Special Agent Jack Crawford
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In 2007, Jason Statham and Jet Li teamed up for the second time (following The One) in a film where the two played former FBI agents and partners who ended up battling each other when Li’s Tom Lone faked his death and turned bad.
Statham’s John Crawford always felt guilty about his partner’s supposed death, and struggles to come to terms with the truth when Lone reveals he is the notorious assassin known as Rogue. This all leads to their ultimate fight.
Jet Li’s martial arts mastery and Jason Statham’s brutal fighting style were what fans were coming to see.
The fight happened in closed quarters, and the two men used everything from basic martial arts to chains, wooden planks, lead pipes, and more to beat each other up. To add to the intensity is the fact that there was someone on the outside with a target on them, ready to fire when they got a clear shot.
However, that was not needed as Jet Li’s martial arts mastery and Jason Statham’s brutal fighting style were what fans were coming to see in this action thriller.
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Fight Vs. Vin Diesel In Furious 7
Deckard Shaw Vs. Dominic Toretto
While the Furious 7 fight most people talk about is Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson’s big battle that eventually led to their spinoff movie, Hobbs & Shaw, that wasn’t the best Statham fight in that film.
In Furious 7, Statham is Deckard Shaw, the villain who seemingly killed Han and is now seeking revenge against Dom and his team after his brother Owen was defeated in the last film. This led to the fight that most people at the time wanted to see — Jason Statham against Vin Diesel.
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Statham and Johnson fought in an office building, which limited them a bit on what they could do. However, the Vin Diesel and Jason Statham fight started with a car crash and then moved on to a battle on the roof of a parking garage.
Dom had a gun, but he decided to get dirty and tossed it to turn this into a street fight with everything from crowbars to pieces of their cars. It starts in slow motion and then becomes epic, although the ending was a letdown with a bombing of the garage and a cheesy Vin Diesel one-liner to end things.
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Bus Fight In The Transporter
Frank Martin Vs. Endless Henchmen
- Cast
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Jason Statham, Shu Qi, Francois Berleand, Matt Schulze, Alessandro Gassmann, Natalya Rudakova, Ed Skrein, Ray Stevenson, Chris Vance, Andrea Osvart
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Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
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Transporter The Series
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Transporter The Series
The bus scene in The Transporter is easily Jason Statham’s best fight scene in any of his action movies. This Statham fight scene is actually three fight scenes, one after the next, and it runs for eight minutes. This begins when Frank shows up to end the human trafficking operation of Mr. Kwai (Ric Young).
It all starts before getting on the bus when Frank fights several henchmen in a martial arts showdown. This is in a corridor between shipping containers, and after Frank eliminates them, he jumps on the bus.
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From here, Frank fights several other henchmen inside the bus, and he eliminates them as well. Finally, the bus stops, and the fight reaches its conclusion at the bus station, in the middle of an oil spill. Frank is surrounded by eight more henchmen.
He takes them all out, even after the two major fight scenes leading up to this. With the slick ground covered in oil, Frank finds a way to use it to his advantage, and no Jason Statham fight scene has ever matched up to this brilliance.
