10 Best Action Scenes From The Marvel Cinematic Universe

The undoubted highpoint of Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the extended action set-piece that serves as the climax to the second act of the movie. The sequence features everything you'd want from a summer blockbuster; it starts with a car chase, evolves into a frantic shootout and finishes with a gripping hand-to-hand battle between the title character and title villain, ending with the big reveal of the Winter Soldier's true identity.

Thanks to some brilliant editing, booming sound design and a greater reliance on practical effects than the typical comic book movie set-piece, the crunching car case-turned downtown gun battle fits perfectly with the narrative's more grounded and realistic tone as well as delivering a relentlessly exciting action scene.

The gripping cat-and-mouse game between the Winter Soldier and Black Widow gives the latter the best action beats out of any of her Marvel Cinematic Universe appearances to date, while the fast-paced, hard-hitting encounter between Cap and Bucky is quite simply the best fistfight in the MCU by quite some distance.