Time To Determine The Sweet Sixteen
Last week, Jeremy Lesniak introduced our Martial Arts Movies March Madness plans to have you, the readers, determine what the best martial arts movie of all time is. To recap for you, we asked you to nominate your favorite martial arts movies of all time. And boy, did you! You blew us away with your responses. Whether right here at Martial Journal or on our facebook page, the response was amazing. Thank you!
Now What?
Well, now that we have all of those responses, we must now determine the top 16 movies from the list so that we can seed them into a bracket. Who will determine that? You guessed it: You. We are asking you to choose your top 16 martial arts movies from this list. The poll will be open until March 17th. So after you have voted for your top 16 below, make sure to share this post so everyone you know gets a chance to vote as well.
The Bracket
Once the top 16 are determined, they will be seeded into a single-elimination bracket tournament. The setup will be straight forward. The number one seed will play the sixteenth seed, the two seed will play the fifteenth seed, and so on. Additionally, the number one seed can only face the two seed if they both make it to the finals.
March Madness Is All About The Matchups
Each matchup will be a unique post here on Martial Journal. In that post, you will find a full movie review for both movies in the matchup. The movies will individually be reviewed by one of the writers at Martial Journal and will cover the things that matter in these movies: story, cinematography, acting, flow, and last but definitely not least, martial arts choreography! However, regardless of what the overall rating each movie reviewed gets, you still have the power to determine which one will move on. Each matchup will have it’s own poll so that you can vote on your favorite from that matchup.
Each week will see a new set of matchups as the voting closes and the bracket advances. Eventually, we will be able to determine, with your help, the best martial arts movie of all time!
Make Your Voice Heard Now!
Participate in the poll so we can hear what you have to say about which movies should be in the top 16!
Which are your top martial arts movies (choose up to 16)?
- Enter the Dragon (6%, 45 Votes)
- The Karate Kid (1984) (6%, 44 Votes)
- Ip Man (5%, 36 Votes)
- Bloodsport (4%, 35 Votes)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (4%, 28 Votes)
- Ong Bak (3%, 27 Votes)
- Jet Li’s Fearless (3%, 24 Votes)
- Drunken Master (3%, 23 Votes)
- John Wick (3%, 22 Votes)
- Kickboxer (3%, 20 Votes)
- Ip Man 2 (2%, 18 Votes)
- The Seven Samurai (2%, 18 Votes)
- The Raid: Redemption (2%, 17 Votes)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2%, 17 Votes)
- Above the Law (2%, 16 Votes)
- Rumble in the Bronx (2%, 16 Votes)
- Game of Death (2%, 16 Votes)
- Chinese Connection (Fist of Fury) (2%, 15 Votes)
- Best of the Best (2%, 14 Votes)
- Fists of Legend (2%, 14 Votes)
- 13 Assassin (2%, 13 Votes)
- The Last Dragon (2%, 13 Votes)
- Ip Man 3 (2%, 12 Votes)
- Kung Fu Hustle (2%, 12 Votes)
- Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (2%, 12 Votes)
- Jet Li’s Unleashed (1%, 11 Votes)
- The Protector (1%, 11 Votes)
- Billy Jack (1%, 11 Votes)
- Hard to Kill (1%, 10 Votes)
- Hero (1%, 10 Votes)
- Never Back Down (1%, 10 Votes)
- The 36th Chamber (1%, 10 Votes)
- John Wick: Chapter 2 (1%, 10 Votes)
- The Karate Kid 2 (1%, 9 Votes)
- The Raid 2 (1%, 9 Votes)
- Police Story (1%, 8 Votes)
- The Big Boss (1%, 8 Votes)
- 5 Deadly Venoms (1%, 8 Votes)
- Kung Fu (1972) (1%, 8 Votes)
- No Retreat No Surrender (1%, 8 Votes)
- Kiss of the Dragon (1%, 7 Votes)
- Lone Wolf McQuaid (1%, 6 Votes)
- Heroes of the East (aka Shaolin Challenges Ninja) (1%, 6 Votes)
- Lionheart (1%, 6 Votes)
- Once Upon a Time in China (1%, 6 Votes)
- Undisputed 2 (1%, 6 Votes)
- Kuro-Obi (1%, 5 Votes)
- The Karate Kid 3 (1%, 5 Votes)
- The Karate Kid (2010) (1%, 5 Votes)
- Undisputed 3: Redemption (1%, 5 Votes)
- Only the Strong (1%, 5 Votes)
- Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown (1%, 5 Votes)
- 7 Grandmasters (1%, 5 Votes)
- 5 Fingers of Death (1%, 4 Votes)
- Yojimbo (1%, 4 Votes)
- Never Back Down 3: No Surrender (1%, 4 Votes)
- Police Story 3: Super Cop (1%, 4 Votes)
- 8 Diagram Pole-Fighter (1%, 4 Votes)
- Blood and Bone (1%, 4 Votes)
- Clan of the White Lotus (1%, 4 Votes)
- Enter the Ninja (1%, 4 Votes)
- Gymkata (1%, 4 Votes)
- Martial Club (0%, 3 Votes)
- Ong Bak 3 (0%, 3 Votes)
- Ong Bak 2 (0%, 3 Votes)
- The Quest (0%, 2 Votes)
- BKO: Bangkok Knockout (0%, 2 Votes)
- SPL: Killzone (0%, 2 Votes)
- The Next Karate Kid (0%, 2 Votes)
- Prodigal Son (0%, 1 Votes)
- King Boxer (0%, 1 Votes)
- Ninja II: Shadow of a Tear (0%, 1 Votes)
- Shaolin Temple (0%, 1 Votes)
- Death Duel of Kung Fu (0%, 1 Votes)
- SPL: Killzone 2 (0%, 0 Votes)
- Once Upon a Time in China 2 (0%, 0 Votes)
- One Armed Boxer (0%, 0 Votes)
- Breathing Fire (0%, 0 Votes)
- Fighting Black Kings (World’s Strongest Karate) (0%, 0 Votes)
- The Mystery of Chess Boxing (0%, 0 Votes)
- Master Killer (0%, 0 Votes)
- Master of the Flying Guillotine (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 67
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