Best Car Chase In a Movie

adser53

What are your fave car chase scenes in movies?

Ronin (The Paris Chase)
Bullitt
The Bourne Identity
Terminator 2 (Near the end with the helicopter and truck)

Nemici

its got to be the French Connection - no contest

adser53

i never saw that but i heard the chase is class innit. Somethin to do with a train r sumtin

weemcd

matrix reloded, terminator2 ronin, bullit gone in 60 seconds, fast and the furious

Lemming

Matrix Reloaded, Ronin, Heat, the motorcycle chase/fight in Akira near the start, and Spiderman (well - him chasing a car when he first gets his powers), the Steve McQueen motorcycle chase in the Great Escape

Bubba

2 Fast 2 Furious is definitly a winner. At the start there is a great chase and in the ad, that part is great too

trazix

THE BLUE'S BROTHERS

Retr0gamer

The blues brothers car chases were deadly, especially when the nazi party show up. I can tell you one thing, if anyone votes for gone in 60 seconds I'll kill them. Loads of gorgeous cars, not even one decent car chase.

Makaveli

Said it before, will say it again, Bad Boys.
Also all of the above.

Clintons Cat

First the Runners Up

1st Blues Brothers

2nd Smokey and the Bandit 2

3rd Canonball Run 2

4th Mad Max

5th Bullit

But teh win is Duel

adser53

Blues Brothers is amazin! Pity they ruined it with Blues Brothers 2000.You kno a movies gonna be crap when they bring a "smart-alec" kid into it.God help us when Die Hard 4 comes out with Mc Clane on hols in the Carribean with his teenage daughter....AAAAARRRGGGGG!

And Mad Max 2 has the better car chase.

Reloaded's motorway scenes at the end were class!!!

lamda

I'd second the French Connection Nemici.. brilliant
Oh and The Great Escape... but I have a weakness for Steve McQueen so.....
Also The Italian Job... I like Minis:D

Gordon

Bullit for me, incidentally a mate of mine got me a cd of the original Bullit soundtrack but rerecorded by the original composer/conductor. Get your hands on it if you can. Although Ronin was pretty good also and the Italian Job was class.

GUI

Ronin

NeoSlicerZ

Matrix reloaded

Johnny Gomez

Ronin
The Bourne Identity
Matrix Reloaded
and THe Blues Brothers

tman

ronin - more of a car chase than a movie

matrix reloaded - 15 minutes of sheer omfg:eek:

blues brothers - cheers for the idea, might watch that later

[CALIBUR]

this is not a top 3 list

akira
reloaded
Ronin (The Paris Chase) <=== the rest of the moive was pure poo

GreenHell

Bullit, Ronin, The Italian Job and The French Connection.

gs39t

1st - The Driver

2nd - Vanishing Point (original)

3rd - 1974 Gone in 60 Seconds

4th - Bullitt

RicardoSmith

Bullit, Ronin...

What bit in bourne identity, you're not talking about the likkle bit in the mini?

What about the bond movies? Would the lotus underwater count as a car chase? Since a car was being chased? How about the vegas one with connery?

Clintons Cat

Police Story had a pretty spectacular car chase through a shanty town followed by the bus chase scene.

Bacchus

It's all been said before but here goes...
Reloaded
Terminator 2
Ronin
The Great Escape
Blues Brothers
Tron - on those moterbikes that leave the wall behind them

mooman_00

Any one know of a film around the 1970's(or later) mark where a fella in a white charger(i think) beats across the states on his own pumped up on speed being chased by the cops. At the end

he drives straight into a road block of diggers on purpose and the story ends

????

Anyway

Matrix reloaded
Ronin
Terminator 2

jonno

Bullitt, Ronin but my favourite is DUEL. G'wan Spielberg.

adser53

yeah the little bit in the mini. I thought that was class!

gs39t are you talkin about the really old film "The Driver" with Ryan O Neill and Isabelle Adjani (I think) and to prove how good the driver is he smashes the car up in an underground car park with all the lads innit with him? That films car chases are absolutely deadly! I dunno how I forgot that one, I even have it on video.

gs39t

Adser53,

Yeah, thats the one

Even made a DVD out of my vhs copy of it :cool:

mike65

Originally posted by mooman_00
Any one know of a film around the 1970's(or later) mark where a fella in a white charger(i think) beats across the states on his own pumped up on speed being chased by the cops. At the end

he drives straight into a road block of diggers on purpose and the story ends

????

Thats Vanishing Point which was a pretty poor movie, full of dreadful early 70s metaphyisical angst and hippy crap. The best moment was when Mountians "Missipppi Queen" suddenly cranked up on the soundtrack but sadly it did'nt last...! The ending was a true cop-out suggesting that either a, the driver was a ghostly spirit (very 70s) or b, the writer just got bored and said "that it, finnished".

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0067927

Mike.

gs39t

Thats Vanishing Point which was a pretty poor movie, full of dreadful early 70s metaphyisical angst and hippy crap.

Ever seen the TV remake of this, with Viggo Mortisen (sp?)

Worst pile of crap ive ever seen.

They took a cult classic movie, and made it pathetic. In the remake, the guy is just trying to get home because his wife is in hospital :rolleyes:

Plus, they took the black radio caster and replaced him with........Jason Preistly! :mad:

mike65

Oh Yeah..my my favourite car chase scene - proberly The French Connection for its vivid, loud ambience. Not surprising really as much of the stuff was shot "for real" and sometimes with Hackman at the wheel. The insurance would let you get away with that sort of thing now...Honourable mentions for The Seven Ups, Ronin, The Driver.

Am I the only one who reckons there has yet to be a real cracker of a chase in a Bond movie? Not just some good moments but not a real hum-dinger of a chase...

Mike.

weemcd

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Bubba

These mightened be cars but another great chase is in MI2. At the end where there on the bikes is great!

Kai

Originally posted by Bubba
These mightened be cars but another great chase is in MI2. At the end where there on the bikes is great!

I thought the bit on the bikes was terrible, really over the top.

Ronin, blue brothers.

id agree that gone in 60 secs was pretty weak on the chase scenes for a fast car film.

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by Bubba
These mightened be cars but another great chase is in MI2. At the end where there on the bikes is great!

Have to say I thought that was terrible...

Captain Trips

Gone in 60 Seconds: the ending car chase in the Shelby was pretty good, except for the flying ****. BUt the car is so cool it has to be good.

Matrix Reloaded: the highway chase, absoluetly mad.

The Transporter: I liked this movie a lot and thought the car chases were great.

Terminator 2

Indiana Jones/Last Crusade: does the motorbike case after Castle Brunwald count?

Retr0gamer

Yes it was amazing how they could make a car chase with a shelby average.

adser53

I have to agree with the majority here, MI:2's end sequence was a tad over the top and Gone in 60 seconds was just a big pile of poooooooooooooo! I only saw the transporter last night, theres some deadly chases in that, especially at the start.

I kno Duel was a good flik but did anyone think it was a tad over rated? Also pretty cool the way you get the odd glimpse of steven himself in the rear view mirror

Washout

Ronin for me too...

I just love that scene where they are driving against the traffic

DMC

The Blue Brothers.. no contest for me.

From "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes; it's dark and we're wearing sun glasses. Hit it!" to the centre of Chicago is pure cinematic brilliance.

The one redeeming feature of BB2000 is that it crashes more cars than the original.

adser53

but BB's car chases were a tiny, weeeeensy bit credible. They were way over the top, but in BB200 it was just feckin ridiculous! DID'NT THEY EVER HEAR OFF BRAKES!!!!!! "Oh look there's a big MASSIVE pile-up up ahead,jebus i cant put on the brakes" yada yada yada for another ten minutes,by which youve lost all interest. BB2000 is an embarrasment to the BB. :mad:

weemcd

I saw 2fast 2furious the other day and the opening race is fantastic! OTT but it's what you expect, it's one of the coolest films ive ever seen

LFCFan

The Blues Brothers car chase is excellent. Add some great music and you've got one hell of a movie. 'We're on a mission from God'

davros

Hard to beat Ronin but, for local interest, I nominate The Mackintosh Man (Paul Newman, James Mason - 1973). Great high speed chase along the narrow, winding roads of Connemara.

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by davros
Hard to beat Ronin but, for local interest, I nominate The Mackintosh Man (Paul Newman, James Mason - 1973). Great high speed chase along the narrow, winding roads of Connemara.

Didn't know about this but I'll look out for it now

mike65

Originally posted by davros
Hard to beat Ronin but, for local interest, I nominate The Mackintosh Man (Paul Newman, James Mason - 1973). Great high speed chase along the narrow, winding roads of Connemara.

Good Call! I forgot that film ever existed, another 70s flick from this side of the ocean which had a rather neat chase was Callan a spin off from the Ed Woodward series. And if you want to watch a couple of Fiat 128s end up in metro tunnel watch out for a french flick called The Burglars

http://home.austin.rr.com/cinemaofpain/film/burglars.html

Mike.

dinjo

Its has to be a film called Taxi 2.....its a french film about a fella being chased by french police........its unbelievable!........FIND IT AND WATCH IT!

nadir

bad boys II
bullitt

Cactus Col

The Crow

krattapopov

blues brothers for sure and can the truck/horse/jeep chase count in indiana jones and the raiders of the lost arc? thats great that is

gandalf

Taxi - French Class (Taxi II wasn't as good)
The French Connection - Gene Hackman and one hell of car chase with a train, class
The Blues Brother - Excellent
Ronin - Good film and excellent chases !!!!

Clintons Cat

The Original Itallian Job

Way Of The Gun