10 Movie Fight Scenes That Set The Bar For Slo-Mo
7. The Big Fight - Snatch (2000)
The Scene
A boxing ring. It's the climactic bare knuckle boxing match.
How It Sets The Bar
Pitt excels as a scrawney, rubbery, 'pikey' in this scene because he plays the ragdoll so bloody well. The style that Guy Ritchie has become famous for in his fight scene revolves around the suspending of brutal moments within the fight that are bookended by the scene going back to real time or even speeding up.
It makes you feel as though each blow has thrown you into some sort of vacuum away from all sound and feeling, only to be thrown back into reality and all the pain and rigidity that now comes with it.
No one else captures that true to life feeling of the world slowing down after taking a hit quite like Ritchie. The final sequence of this match leaves you feeling dizzy - garnering sympathy for the punch bag that is Mickey - as he is uppercutted into the air and left to hover there as the camera slaps back to show an arcing Pitt slumbering into the metaphorical water of the canvas.
His re-emergence from the depths to knock out his foe, in one foul swing, has us cheering for Mickey's revenge on the men who burnt down his mother's caravan.