Best car crash/chase scenes in a movie.

[Duke]

Bullit is mostly a cop movie. Steve McQueen is a San Francisco PD detective, who has the task of keeping an important witness alive until he can testify. The political machine, in the form of Robert Vaughn, can't have the witness testify for various reasons. It's not a great movie but not a bad one at all.

The chase comes when McQueen is being followed by the bad guys who are trying to see where he's stashed the witness. For what it's worth, McQueen did all his own driving in the Mustang, not a stunt driver.

 

[Nightmage82]

i love the chase in 'the man with a golden gun' - james bond. i watched that over and over and over again as a kid, primarily because there weren't many other things available to me at the time. i loved the 911 scene in gone in 60, but thats because there aren't many 911 chase scenes. bullit is also good. and the fast and furious thing when they are racing towards the truck at the begining... to be honest though there aren't _that_ many good movies, most people like bullit because there isn't any of that camera wizzardry every time the car enters the corner... it simply has a fixed camera most of the time and a real driver doing some real driving.

 

[z281968]

I can't compare Matrix Reloaded...until this weekend...BUT, Bullitt is great...especially for an old flick. If you ever drove an old muscle car...you will relate to the visual and the audio. It is worth renting!

 

[z281968]

Neon_Duke is right about Bullitt...it's a fair movie...but the chase scene (which is a good length in time and distance - hmmmm) is super!

 

[charger]

Bullit's chase scene is still the best, second place is Ronin's scene and in third place (in my opinion) is the Live and Die in LA's chase scene, that crossing the railroad and against the highway car flow!

 

[charger]

Another chase scene that uses a 911 is in the movie "Against all odds" (with that classic soundtrack with Phill Collins). They use an 911 Carrera against an 308 GT Ferrari. I remember that those cars were chosen because it's equal weight distribution between front and rear (almost 50 & 50%).
I still prefer that race between the 67 Mustang and the Dodge Charger....yes.......in Bullit!

 

[ZEE]

Die Anothe Day - Bond's Aston versus Zao's Jag XKR.

Great Scene, Great Stunts and Great Soundtrack.

 

[High-Test]

The world's largest game of chicken from smokey and the bandit 2, and bullit

 

[Victor Vance]

Gone was the best ever.

This Gone:

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1.5mil$+H.B. Halicki+Eleanor=A legendary car movie that will never, ever be duplicated.

 

[the_undrtaker89]

Bad boys 2 had the best car chase scene with them ripping it in a cadaillac down a bridge chasing a car transporting truck, which throws cars at them

 

[87chevy]

Gone in 60 Seconds (original):tup:tup:
Mad Max
Smokey and the Bandit
Ronin
Heat (begining w/ TowSemi versus Armored car, and then end when their Caprice? is getting blown to hell! the most realistic shoot out ever! The sound was awesome!)
Lethal Weapon, as mentioned before.

I'll think of some others, and I've got to see this "Bullit" movie, sounds great.

 

[Nightmage82]

check out the porsche websites, some of the videos of the porsche gt3rs are just THE BEST way to make car movies.

they are perfect.

 

[Dave A]

Gone in 60 Seconds (original):tup:tup:
Mad Max
Smokey and the Bandit
Ronin
Heat (begining w/ TowSemi versus Armored car, and then end when their Caprice? is getting blown to hell! the most realistic shoot out ever! The sound was awesome!)
Lethal Weapon, as mentioned before.

I'll think of some others, and I've got to see this "Bullit" movie, sounds great.

This selection is THE selection as far as I'm concerned, the final chase scene in the newer Gone in 60 isn't bad but it's a bit too hollywood, one chace you missed though is Bullit.

 

[Anderton Prime]

Well, obviously I liked the Matrix Reloaded chase on the highway, though the second half had Trinity and the Keymaker on a motorbike, so I guess it's only technically half a car chase scene. But there's lots of good crashes in there, even if all the wrecked cars were supplied by GM and you can see that they're hollowed out shells only if you watch closely.

I thought the chase at the end of Bad Boys, with the Porsche vs. the Cobra, was kind of cool, though it was only in a straight line and ended with the Cobra smashed to bits (ever seen a grown man cry?) The Bad Boys II chase with the 550 Maranello pursuing the crazy Jamaicans on the 18 wheeler was awesome, as was the final chase of that movie, with Smith and Lawrence rocketing down a hill right smack through a shanty village in an H2...

The Rock was cool, but the chase was too short, and again it ends with Nicolas Cage chasing Connery on a dirt bike.

Anyone seen the movie Jade? Crap movie but if I recall there was a cool chase with regular cars (I think one was a Ford Taurus or something...)

For a hoot, the scene near the end of Armed & Dangerous where the truck driver goes crazy and drives right through the traffic jam, and scares the hell out of John Candy at the same time, is quite funny.

Terminator 3 had a good scene, where John Conner is fleeing in a pickup truck and the TX has programmed the 4 cop cars to chase him and they're banging him around and turning him backwards 180 degrees, then that huge crane truck pulls up and massive property damage ensues!

Fifth Element had that good chase through that crazy metropolis with the flying cars, a little nerve-wracking.

Condorman, a little-known piece of Disney mediocrity, has the title hero fleeing in some ridiculous Condor-race-car thing, but watch it purely for the Proknoviatch, the Russian driving-slash-assassin team that chase him in black Porsches, the leader even drives a Slantnose with a rotating radar on the roof!!

Steven Seagal, anyone? What a lame-ass, but re-watch Out For Justice to see him chasing the bad guy in an unmarked car down the median of the road, bouncing around all over the freakin' place. If ever there was a film example of how to waste your suspension, this is it!

 

[Nightmage82]

This selection is THE selection as far as I'm concerned, the final chase scene in the newer Gone in 60 isn't bad but it's a bit too hollywood, one chace you missed though is Bullit.

hang on what?

i haven't seen most of that last in a while, but ronin definitely not.

i doubt if the engine sounds come from the cars they were showing. at least one of them is french which excludes it being a good car chase scene lol. and if u are alluding to the chase with the bmw too then why does the 7 series have THREE pedals? o_O

 

[BAR-ZoNdA]

the chase in the gone in 60 seconds with the gt500 is awsome, i love that chase
one chase that annoys me is the one in charlies angels with the indy cars...ppftt

 

[demon of speed]

Matrix reloaded (on the highway),Terminator 2 (T100 in the truck chasing John on bike followed by arnold driving off and then huge explosion!,and final chase fom Cyberdine to the steel mill, love the copter explosion and juggernaut crash), Ronin (Paris chase in tunnel way cool some great drifting and slides),The Rock(Sean Connery in the Humv, total destruction and Nick Cage destroying the Farrari, Oh yeh not forgetting those dumb cops),Too fast too furious(the final job Brian and Roman had to pull off, and the piss taking reverse driving on the highway in their test mission for the cigar)Nearly forgot Final destination 2(that huge motor way accident was quite thought provoking and shocking but great Hollywood)Goldeneye had an ok chase/race with the Aston vs Farrari. Can't really think of any more brain starting to ache.

 

[Limit Four-Five]

I would say oringinal Gone in 60 Seconds, i mean the thing is 40 minutes long, you need a good chase to keep me interested like that for that long.

In agreement with Neon Duke about Mad Max i loved the start of it. I like Mad Max 2 a bit more just to see that blower switch on the shifter go on and off in the Interceptor. Thunderdome was absolutely crap. what kind of Mad Max is it without the interceptor?

I really want to see Bullitt does anyone know where to get in in Australia? I want that and a movie called Running on Empty which sounds mad (A GTHO Phase III vs a Charger R/T, yes please) Can anyone from Australia help me with this one?

 

[Nightmage82]

what kind of Mad Max is it without the interceptor?

totally

 

[BigJamesGTI]

bourne identity
driven

Bourne Supremacy - The crashes in that car chase are very realistic - The camera goes into the car and you can see the crash before it happens, very good.

 

[Victor Vance]

I'll always consider Gone in 60 Seconds's the absolute BEST CHASE EVER! Halicki rules!

 

[Duke]

Hey, I think I may have seen the Ronin chase scene the other night. I was flipping channels and I saw a black Citroen of some kind, a smallish black Audi, a large, older, brown Mercedes sedan crewed by DeNiro and some other gomer, and maybe another navy blue Citroen that always seemed to show up a minute too late everywhere.

The Audi kept ramming the Citroen. It eventually ended when the Audi's support crew vectored them in front of the Citroen as it emerged from an alleyway, and they T-boned it into a little cafe. DeNiro/Mercedes showed up seconds later and there was a large fire fight with lots of automatic weapons.

I only ask because I've never seen Ronin, but I was led to believe here that it was the best chase scene ever. This one was decent but nothing special, so was it or was it not the right movie?

If that was Ronin, I was thoroughly underwhelmed.

 

[code_kev]

The Blues Brothers and Bullit.

 

[VIPFREAK]

The Cannon Ball run and Gumball Rally! :tup:

 

[a6m5]

bourne identity
driven

Amen to that. 👍

I also liked:

Chases
Ronin
Mad Max
Gone in 60 Seconds(remake)
The Fast And The Furious
2 Fast And 2 Furious
James Bond Movies
Italian Job(original & remake)

Crashes
Final Destination 2
Forgotten
Mad Max
T2

 

[VIPFREAK]

Driven was gay...

 

[Emohawk]

Hey, I think I may have seen the Ronin chase scene the other night. I was flipping channels and I saw a black Citroen of some kind, a smallish black Audi, a large, older, brown Mercedes sedan crewed by DeNiro and some other gomer, and maybe another navy blue Citroen that always seemed to show up a minute too late everywhere.

It was actually crewed by Jean Reno and some other gomer

Yeah, that was Ronin. Good, but not great. The Italian Job (first one) was better.
I suppose Getaway in Stockholm doesn't count as a movie?

 

[a6m5]

Driven was gay...

It's fake, I know. But I really liked the scene they take out the openwheel cars onto city streets of Chicago. It's one of those movies I really liked, but everybody else tells you it's trash.

It was actually crewed by Jean Reno and some other gomer

Yet another proof Jean Reno is underappreciated.

 

[the_undrtaker89]

Bad boys 2 had a cool chase scene.

 

[VIPFREAK]

What about The Island? I didn't see it but I just remember that scene in the preview where those guys had to dodge the train wheels.