10 Best Action Scenes From The Marvel Cinematic Universe

3. Prison Break - Guardians Of The Galaxy

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Guardians of the Galaxy went from an obscure property that seemed like Marvel Studios' biggest gamble yet to one of the most critically and commercially successful blockbusters of 2014, and is rightly lauded as one of the studio's best movies. While it devolves into the now-standard 'large scale aerial battle' of recent Marvel movies by the third act, the action highlight comes when the Guardians finally work together to escape the Kyln.

The scene captures the irreverence and anarchic spirit of both the movie as a whole and the Guardians themselves, a near ten-minute sequence that features sight gags, clever dialogue and some laugh-out-loud moments in amongst the explosions and gunfire. 

And of course, how could a prison break that features a talking racoon firing a machine gun from the back of a sentient tree be anything less than awesome?

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