Solid 4 for me. The actors are masters of the action sequence. I love how fluid they are. Especially Brett Dalton and Ming Na Wen.

A lot of times the choreography looks pretty unrealistic or impractical, which lowers the grade for me...

5

4. Not many shows/movies beats it out and it's been consistently good since season 1.

The fight scenes are amazing. Especially Daisy’s.

One of my favorites is Daisy saving Lincoln from hydra. That was some Kingsmen level shit. No camera cuts and I was if you were right there watching it happen in person.

5 for me, some of the best fight scenes I've seen in live-action. Favourites have got to be s2e19, where Daisy clears a whole room of HYDRA agents with a pistol and s3e21 Daisy vs Hive, one of her best fights. Special mention to Daisy vs the LMDs in s4e15, it was brutal.

3. Solid, but nothing special.

7.3/10

Good but not that close to the best.

4.5-5. They're MCU movie level choreography, which is rare if not non-existent.

Good for a TV show but in the grand scheme of things it's average most of the time. There's no way in hell I could give it a 5.

These are top-end fight scenes:

@rogueshadow: Makes sense. I'd give AoS a 4, I think 5 is reserved for stuff like that. I don't think anything in the MCU is quite on that level.

It's consistently good choreography, but I don't think I would overall put it at 5. It's still pretty impressive what they do considering their real tight shooting schedules so I'll give them 4. Apparently they do an episode in like three weeks. That one-shot fight scene where Daisy saves Lincoln was apparently shot on a weekend with Chloe Bennet and Kevin Tancharoen working overtime to manage. For comparision John Wick apparently spends up to four weeks on just one fight scene and certain asian productions can apparently at times spend months on fight scenes and stunts, granted that was about a Jackie Chan movie, so pretty big one.

4 considering it is a non-wuxia tv show

Average

One scene I remember being quite impressed with, that was Bobby vs. Ward.

Pretty bleh outside of that.

People have different expectations for fight scenes. Personally, I find it irritating when trained fighters throw strikes that make them look untrained, or when people with guns don't treat the fight they're in like they HAVE GUNS. Iron Fist and BVS (knightmare sequence) are pretty guilty of this. When you have a ranged weapon, why would you close the distance on a guy you just watched beat the crap out of a dozen guys? Punisher's and Daredevil's show both genrerally do a good job of handling this, Jigsaw even made a reference to Stein getting killed by a guy with a knife when he was armed with a gun.

My issue with this show's choreography has more to do with the actors. They look very stiff doing a lot of the action, which kills the illusion that they are the most skilled fighters in the room. They're very ambitious though, and generally do a good job of actually displaying moves that would incapacitate someone.

Other small grievances I have are things like people putting their knives on display, basically warning the other person. A knife should be a secret as long as possible, that way they're not ready to dodge it. (Iron Fist does this a ton and I can't stand it). I can't stand group fights when one person attacks at a time, or one of the attackers gets knocked down with a tiny kick that wouldn't hurt a child.

I'm very nit picky when it comes to martial arts and fight scenes, which really sucks for me as it's hard to enjoy them without picking them apart, but I try to be forgiving when I can.

3.5. It is good for a TV show, but not great like Daredevil. I blame the stunt doubles or actors for part of this, many times they just don't look like they know what they are doing or don't do moves convincingly and it hurts the final product. I don't understand how people can give it a 5 unless it's the only TV show with action scenes you watch.

Probably like a low end 4 or like 7.5/10

3

@angeljax: Reason for giving it the score you did? Curious to hear your take.

3 for pretty average? It has its moments but to be honest I can't think of a single fight scene from this show that really sticks in my head. Most of the scenes are...fairly serviceable but ultimately forgettable. I guess Daisy has a couple cool scenes from when she started being trained by May? The show's fight choreography has never wowed me the way that Netflix Daredevil/Punisher or Pre Season-4 Arrow have, if we're talking about superhero TV.

@the_magister: The most important thing I ask for choreography is to make it convincing. The AoS cast has that in spades. Not only are their set pieces well choreographed on a technical level, but the actors do an incredible job of selling it and executing it to a tee. Just look at Chloe's one-shot scenes for Daisy (or really just Chloe's scenes in general), those were amazing and it's no short part to the actors who put in work and treat the action with just as much respect as they treat any other aspect of the show.

Good concept and ambitious, but lacks polish most of the time.

3/5?

You can actually tell that these guys are the best at what they're doing. They are comic-book based characters, and they demonstrate that it in that show. Whenver the big leagues in there are about to fight, I know for a fact it's going to be gold.

3.5.

How do you feel about the Matrix fights? Stuff like the Chateau scene for example

Legendary Chinese choreographer Yuen Woo-ping did those fights, which is why they were so good.

@rogueshadow: In your opinion, who is the best choreographed character on the show?

Probably May most consistently. After that maybe Daisy.

Ta-Er gave it a 1.

OT-3.