Fight Clip Club: John Wick

okay okay I’ll talk about the staircase fight.

I am adamant about sticking to one fight example from each franchise I choose—I picked the one unarmed from Matrix and won’t do more from those. I picked one Daredevil scene and won’t do more of those. I’m not sure if I’ll keep up with this rule as time goes by: we’ll see once I do a bunch of the classics and some newer ones and. I’m pretty sure I’ve got plenty of good violence to talk about without picking one fight from each of the John Wicks. But I also might be tempted. But anyway.

I was already tempted to choose the mirror maze fight from John Wick 2, since we’ve been talking about a few other mirror set fights recently, and ehhh who knows. I still may. And there are plenty of brilliant fight scenes in all 4 of these movies—the world and story and the whole enchilada was created by a stunt team, after all, and their artistry is apparent in all these flicks. But I feel like the sheer insanity of the staircase in the 4th movie is just too much to pass up, and so here’s my take on one of the longer fight scenes you’ll ever see in cinema. The one from They Live is the only other one I can think of off the top of my head that reaches this level of unhinged.