Netflix's One Piece Delivers the Year's Best Action Sequence

Season 2 of Netflix's live-action One Piece moves the Straw Hat Crew into the Grand Line, and Episode 4, "Whiskey Business," finds them on an island that isn't what it seems. The residents initially welcome the crew with drinks and food before revealing themselves as low-level Baroque Works assassins bent on killing the Straw Hats.

Separated from his friends, Roronoa Zoro (Mackenyu) takes on the bulk of the attackers in an extended set piece pulled straight from Eiichiro Oda's manga. The sequence stages Zoro's three-sword style across an intricately designed two-story bar, with stairs, tables and hanging chandeliers becoming part of the choreography while the camera maintains a dynamic, manga-like focus.

Zoro fights exactly 100 assassins in a scene that took eight shooting days; the choreography took Mackenyu six hours to learn, and the finished sequence runs about 15 minutes. Practical effects, wirework and props give the action a larger-than-life feel, and Zoro even counts down each adversary as he goes.

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