Created as part of WIRED’s Game Over(analyzed) series, this is a video of military historian Mike Loades (great name for a military historian) providing an in-depth analysis of the realism of medieval weaponry and armor used in games like Dark Souls, Mordhau, The Witcher 3, For Honor, and Kingdom Come:

Because realism is only an afterthought in action movies, this is a video of the silencer pistol fight from John Wick: Chapter 2 edited by Youtuber Robot_ninja_pirate with more realistic silenced pistol sounds. Is it accurate? Probably not. Is it MORE accurate? Probably yes. I also included the original scene

This is a video of samurai descendant Kaito Suiju, master of the Hisui school of battōjutsu and instructor at Hisui Tokyo, discussing and rating “the realism of katana sword scenes in movies, including skills of actors, the way they hold and train with the swords, as well as the choreography