Best car chase in a movie???

I love a good chase scene, especially one that's got great music and sound effects whizzing by, even ones without music, that set the tone of the action at hand....

Ronin (Peugeot and BMW 7 series)
The Bourne Identity (the old-school Mini)
Bullit (McQueen's Mustang)

anyone else care to share?? :p

"The Matrix"? Well, if we're going to go with fantasy, how about the speeder-bike chase through the redwoods in "Jedi"?

John

I gotta go with Matrix Relaoded.

ronin

Thanks guys, all of the movies you mentioned, save for Cellular, I've seen, and they all have great chases, especially Matrix Reloaded, and The Transporter!! The only problem I had with Bourne Supremacy, and not just the chase scene, but the whole movie, is the shaky camera technique. The movie was great, but I left the theatres a bit dizzy :o

How about the scene with the motorcycle in Paycheck...not too shabby!

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed" -S.K.

1974 version of "Gone in 60 Seconds"
"The Blues Brothers" come on, how many car chases go through the mall?
"The French Connection"

cellular was pretty good, and that whole movie was a chase, in cars most of the time.

-matt

The already mentioned...

Ronin
Bourne movies

I'll add the chases in The Matrix Reloaded on the Ducati and the BMW chase in The Transporter.

John,

:@

I saw "Bourne 2" in theatres twice. Both times, I could sense the audience letting out big sighs of relief at the end of that car chase in Moscow. The only other times I felt that collective release of tension were after the two big battles in "Saving Private Ryan".

Eddie

"Bullitt" still rules.

I was a little disappointed in the chase scenes in the new "Bourne Supremacy"; they seemed a little more noisy and busy than exciting. I love the car chases in "Ronin," probably second only to "Bullitt." The car chase under the elevated train in "The French Connection" is pretty good, too, done by the same guy who had done "Bullitt" earlier. And the little Mini's going in all directions in the remake of "The Italian Job" were fun.

John

"The Bourne Supremacy" has a much better car chase than the one in "The Bourne Identity".

I really think you have to go with the scope of reality when it comes to the best "car chase" in film history. There have been massive, over produced car chases that certainly present a decent euphoria of excitement. Many of them include intense explosions, dramatic rollovers, the use of automatic weapons in broad daylight, and the usual harming of innocent bystanders. They may all look good, and even be a little seat griping, but by the end, you just have to shake your head and say to yourself, "that'd never really happen". I know I have seen enough reality cop shows that prove car chases are not as if they are in the movies. Sure, they're intense and full of danger, but they are not full of cool stunts and explosions, like in the movies.

With that being said, I'm going to have to agree with John that "Bullitt" is still one of the best filmed car chases in movie history. There quite simply is nothing that beats Steve McQueen and a couple muscle cars racing through the brutal streets of San Francisco. Sure, there are stunts performed in the chase but they were far more believable than the car chases of today. And for those of you who think this particular car chase is overrated, then that is exactly the point because it’s not overproduced. As I said, think of the scope of reality and you can see why the “Bullitt” car chase is highly admired by many film buffs.

For my second choice, I’d pick “Duel”. Certainly is not the highly, overproduced car chase but it does have an intense realistic feel about it. Sure, it’s about a giant ghost semi-truck chasing down Dennis Weaver through the middle of who-knows-what desert. Maybe it doesn’t count as a car chase to some people, but it is a “vehicle” chasing another “vehicle”, so it counts in my book. In fact, that’s all the movie gives us is one big chase, and then a final showdown of wits. It really doesn’t have massive explosions or accelerated speeds, but it does a great job in delivering the uncertain realities that many of us deal with on the road. I’d have to say, if Spielberg was attempting to make me frightened of semi-trucks, then he did a wonderful job on me! Thanks, Steven, I’ll be sure to mail my psychiatrist bill.

Tim. :D

In "Duel", the cars and the drivers weren't evenly matched. Plus, it was just two cars!

"Minority Report" did not have a true car chase, even if there were a lot of chases and cars in it.

The only thing about Lethal Weapon 4, Matrix Reloaded (yes I'm being a hypicrite 8)), Bad Boys II, and T3 is that they're more concentrated on action and not the finesse of an intricate and complex chase sequence masterfully orchestrated.

Yes Bad Boysll was real good. Also" The Rock" isn't too bad. And Terminator 3 is also pretty intense with cars, motorcycles and a crane! Musiccoop

Hey posters5, I think he planned to shoot one in The Terminal, but there was no place for it in the airport. It probably would have seemed out of place.

j/k :D

Wasn't there sort of one in Minority Report? Not a full-fledged "chase," but Tom Cruise hopping around on all of those futuristic cars and stuff when he escaped form the Pre-Cog Pre-Crime Police Dept. or whatever it was called.

Oh...and Duel....one big long chase!!

I also remembered a few more last night while trying to sleep.....Lethal Weapon 4, with the Pontiac Grand Prix on the highway, chasing the black Benz, which led to a cool fight on a big truck's bed.

Also, Bad Boys II, where boats and stuff were flying and cop cars were exploding all around Will Smith's Ferrari.

And lastly, Vanishing Point (1971 version) with the Dodge Challenger. Basically, the whole movie is a long chase, based on a true event. I think it was remade with Viggo Mortensen as the driver. Never saw that one.

Enjoy.....

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." -S.K.

This thread reminds me...Spielberg hasn't really done a pure car chase, has he? Sure, there are chases in the "Indiana Jones" movies, but a "nitty gritty down in the city streets" car chase? He needs to shoot one--immediately.

The car chase in "Ronin" is one of my favorites. Albeit not anywhere near as exciting as the scenes in Bourne 2, I still think the car chase scene in Ronin with the Audi S8 was AWESOME!!

My vote would probably go to "Ronin" as the overall best car chase. "Bullitt" was excellent as well. I also have a soft spot for any Bond car chase involving the classic Aston Martin DB5. The chase in GoldenEye between the DB5 and the Ferrari 355 was great.

I think the best car chase is still waiting to be filmed. And then when it comes, the best car chase will come after it, topping that one, and that is how I feel it shall continue until movies end. Which I pray I'm not around to see.

I just got a chance to see The French Connection again this past week, and although I didn't like it when I first saw it last year or so, I loved it the second time around. I think I payed more attention to it, especially the car chase, which was supposed to have topped Bullitt's. It was pretty cool to see a car vs. a train, and upon looking at the trivia on imdb.com, it says that one of the accidents was not planned, and was kept in for the realism. That's pretty damn cool, compared to all the specific planning and stuntwork and sometimes CGI that goes into today's chases....not all, but some. I was impressed....all over again!

-Dave

The Itailian Job does it for me!

FYI...



> 21 Hot Movie CAR CHASES - from Entertainment Weekly magazine's website - ew.com - includes brief YouTube clips(!) from almost every entry below...

Presented in this order -

1 - The French Connection
2 - The Man With the Golden Gun
3 - Gone in 60 Seconds (remake)
4 - The Blues Brothers
5 - Bullitt
6 - Mission: Impossible 2
7 - The Transporter
8 - Ronin
9 - T2: Judgement Day
10 - T3: Rise of the Machines
11 - The Bourne Identity
12 - The Bourne Supremacy
13 - The Matrix Reloaded
13 - The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2)
15 - Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
16 - Death Race 2000
17 - Tomorrow Never Dies
18 - Thelma and Louise
19 - Death Proof
20 - The Italian Job (1969)
21 - The Italian Job (2003)

> Brad Pitt to remake BULLITT <




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