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    WHERE THE ACTION WAS

    Jan 03, 2020 5 minutes

    2010

    ROBOT

    Androids Assemble

    Proof that South Indian cinema could compete on the same level as Bollywood, this mind-bending sci-fi spectacular directed by S. Shankar, with stunt choreography by Yuen Woo-ping, is a robot-gone-bad Tamil blockbuster starring ageless Superstar Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai Bacchan. The centerpiece is a cops-vs.-evil-robot battle in which the android, now replicated into hundreds of clones, arranges himself into different murderous shapes, including a ball of guns, a bullet-spitting snake, a drill, and its final form: a skyscraper-sized giant who flips off the scientist who created him. It is a sequence of joyful, surreally mischievous destruction.

    2011

    FAST FIVE

    Vault Heist

    After , director Justin Lin decided to ease back on CGI and put the emphasis on more practical car stunts. Wily veteran choreographer Jack Gill obliged with the most memorable sequence in the franchise,

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