20 Biggest Blockbuster Movie Showdowns Of All Time
15. Elevated Train Battle - Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Ten years on, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2 remains one of the greatest comic book movies ever made. Even after the misjudged Spider-Man 3, a reboot and a sequel to the reboot, Tobey Maguire's second outing as the iconic wall-crawler remains the pinnacle of Spidey's cinematic adventures. It also helps when you have a villain as layered and interesting as Alfred Molina's Otto Octavius, not to mention one of the best action sequences in the history of the superhero genre when the two foes face off on top of an elevated train. Clearly working with a lot more creative freedom than he enjoyed on the first movie, Raimi goes for broke with this show-stopping set-piece that is visually stunning, expertly choreographed and edge-of-the-seat exciting. Beginning atop a clock tower, Spider-Man and Doc Ock plummet downwards trading blows and hurling projectiles, before an extended battle that takes place on top of, inside and around the moving train with plenty of civilian lives at stake (with a special mention to the over-enthusiastic extra that plays the train conductor). The scene may get a little over-melodramatic once Spider-Man finally manages to stop the train, but it remains a thrilling example of the endless possibilities the comic book genre offers when it comes to inventive action scenes.
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