Star Wars: Clone Wars has some of the best action scenes we’ve ever seen in the franchise.
Here are our favorites!
The action scenes inThe Clone Warsare a highlight of the show.
The fights show which characters are elegant and which are brutal, which show mercy and which do not.
Without having to worry about actors getting hurt, the fights can be more extreme.
Its rare that a lightsaber fight stays a lightsaber fight inThe Clone Wars.
Instead it incporporates elements of martial arts that look both realistic and dangerous.
The battle of Ryloth contains many separate stories, including Jedi, starships, and clone troopers.
Asajj Ventress uses it to show whether he is worthy of following her into the larger galaxy.
Ventress uses nimble moves that look like Judo holds.
The falls and hits feel real, backed by appropriately restrained music.
The ship twists and blasts through an exotic landscape of upside-down cities strung beneath bridges.
The sequence has a lightness too, as fast cuts and dialogue are used for humorous effect.
In the end, the sky-high battle illuminates just how close Anakin and Ahsoka have grown throughout the series.
The grotesque zombies clash with a horde of battle droids, undaunted by blaster bolts and broken jaws.
The way the zombies move is a creative bit of direction itself.
Meanwhile, Ventress duels General Grievous, two lightsabers against four.
This episode also features a close lightsaber duel between Count Dooku and Anakin Skywalker.
Stark, dramatic lighting both obscures some of the characters movements and creates memorable images.
Giger-styled setting in this close-quarters battle.
True to his future as Darth Vader, Anakin has an aggressive style not seen in many Jedi.
He has become the monster waiting outside the door.
The fight ends in a strong beat in which Anakin refuses to lose any of his momentum.
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II established itself already as an episode that glories in shine and color.
Runners-up include an underwater fight lead by Kit Fisto, and a battle against the Godzilla-like Zillo Beast.
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