10 Movie Fight Scenes That Set The Bar For Slo-Mo
9. The Factory Run - Wanted (2008)
The Scene
An undercover base. Wesley (James McAvoy) has returned to The Fraternity base with a plan and a lot of bullets.
How It Sets The Bar
Here we have our first ultra-violent entry. The device is used early into the scene when Wesley uses rats - equipped to explode - to blow up large sections of The Fraternity base, including the ominous Looms of Fate. As each Loom goes up in smoke, we cherish the moment as dust fires into the sky.
Wesley's run through the factory - culminating as he crashes through a window with glass shards masking his face in gloriously decreased velocity - showed just how closely a film can draw comparisons from the madness of a comic book panel without looking utterly ridiculous.
It's still fanciful to believe a bullet can bend, of course, but the visually gushing sight of Wesley's bullets splurting through the Fraternity's brains and the way the camera spins before Wesley catches a loose pistol in mid-air, is what Slo-Mo is made for.
Granted this scene was never documented in the comics but without this moment being pulled off to the level it was, we wouldn't have been rewarded with a few more of the entries on this list.