Every decade has its genre. In the ’50s, westerns were all the rage. In the 2010s, we got more superhero movies than we knew what to do with. And in the ’80s, we got lots and lots of action movies.

Fight choreography is one of the most important elements of the action movie genre. Not every action film relies on combat as the source of its thrills, but most do, and those that do need to have ...