How in the world can you have an essay about well-choreographed fight scenes and not even mention Jackie Chan?!? While he mostly worked in Hong Kong, he had a

How in the world can you have an essay about well-choreographed fight scenes and not even mention Jackie Chan?!? While he mostly worked in Hong Kong, he had a strong cult following in the US and eventually came to Hollywood. He made a number of successful action-comedy films in America, starting with Rush Hour in 1998, one year before The Matrix come out. Certainly the Matrix had a huge effect, that's undeniable, but Jackie Chan was very influential as well. While he rose to fame shooting films in Hong Kong, he had a strong cult following in the US that eventually brought him to Hollywood, where he had a successful run of films made a number of successful films, such as Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon.