Action movies have begun to progress with the times. Usually settling for a more surrealistically outlandish style, fight scenes in many action films shoot for being over the top rather than remotely believable.
Now, modern movies have begun adapting their fight choreography to that of mixed martial arts. Shooting for a more realistic and still entertaining style, films are beginning to slip in tidbits of legitimate hand-to-hand combat in their scenes.
In the clip below, as taken from an action film, the two characters are met with a mesh of the two styles. While each of the fighters’ strikes are over dramatized for effect, the technique is there.
Seeing an action film apply Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a relatively new sight, but is growing more common by the day. The martial art can be seen making an impact in this movie’s fight scene in a big way.
