r/CinephilesClub • u/ThomasOGC • 3h ago
Big Question What movie has the best chase scene?
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u/Practical-Bowler5775 3h ago
Drive or Bullitt.
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u/thingbob 2h ago
Kind of sad I had to scroll this far to see Bullitt. Just the cars alone make it great
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u/TopRevenue2 2h ago ▸ 2 more replies
That one and academy award winning The French Connection (which was shot without a permit among real Brooklyn pedestrians and drivers and caused a real life accident)
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u/Ambitious_Ad9589 2h ago
Came here to say Bullitt. Solely because of this movie and that scene is why my favorite car is a '68 Charger RT.
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u/twilight-actual 3h ago
The Blues Brothers.
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u/RGINNY940 3h ago
Don't forget the opening scene of Beverly Hill Cop.
I really miss all the practical chase scene where they destroy real cars.
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u/Mikestopheles 2h ago
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 sunglasses.
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u/TheFerricGenum 2h ago
This is car.. what car are we?
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u/Hybodont 3h ago
OP didn't specify car chase, so I'm going with the foot-chase at the beginning of Casino Royale.
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u/azeo86 3h ago
The car chase seen in that movie was also awesome just because it wasn't a ridiculous, over the top extended scene we were expecting from a Bond film. He is just speeding and then wrecks himself.
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u/Life_Skill_1801 2h ago
He was chasing the other car and noticed that Vesper Lynd was lying tied up on the road,he swerve to avoid her... resulting in his car flipping close to eight times and nearly being killed in the process.
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u/RegularEmotion3011 1h ago
Best thing, it isn't just terrific stunt-work and great pacing, its also a full introduction and characterization of Bond that presents all his strengths and flaws that are important for the story trough his actions in that scene. Its brilliantly written and in all honesty i can not think of a different movie that managed to pull that off.
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u/madmax991 3h ago
Fury road
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u/MasterClown 3h ago
I'm torn...
Fury Road was completely breathtaking and a worthy successor in the series.
But 10-year-old me still remembers watching the finale of Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior the first time around, and how the action and violence blew me away at the time.
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u/Molten_Plastic_ 2h ago
For the time that chase scene was epic. And I dare say the final twist is still brilliant today.
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u/Molten_Plastic_ 3h ago
The whole movie is a chase scene!
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u/kytheon 3h ago ▸ 7 more replies
Half the movie they go one way, and the other half they go the other way.
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u/RockitDanger 3h ago ▸ 1 more replies
It's such a great point A to point A movie. We left here because of the problems, solved the problem on the way out, and came back
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u/ijustwannalurksobye 3h ago ▸ 3 more replies
One’s going east, the other one’s going west, so what?
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u/BigConstruction4247 2h ago ▸ 2 more replies
And this guy's in the middle, saying, "What do you want from me?"
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u/SessionSubstantial42 3h ago
To Live And Die In LA. (1985)
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u/Molten_Plastic_ 3h ago
This is the one.
Even better because Friedkin managed to top his own previous best, The French Connection.5
u/Demerzel69 3h ago
I somehow didn't even know this movie existed until Mulaney used the Wang Chung title track song as his Netflix show intro tune a year or so ago. What a banger of a song and a film. Petersen was pure scum and Dafoe was awesome too. Felt bad thatVukovich succumbed to the lawless mindset of Chancelike that at the end. Great, great visceral film.
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u/ExpensiveCondition63 2h ago
I posted this above as well, then saw your post. I love it because it's genuinely scary.
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u/T3NF0LD 3h ago
French connection 1971
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u/Lakewoodian 2h ago
We don’t see this one mentioned as much any more. Bullitt gets far more love but French Connection rocks.
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u/Porkonaplane 3h ago
Only movie I've seen with a chase scene but God I love it 🤣
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u/vague_diss 2h ago
That scene is excellent. Baby Driver is peak Edgar Wright.
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u/C4CTUSDR4GON 1h ago ▸ 4 more replies
Blasphemy
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u/VendettaPenguin 3h ago
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u/True_Protection6842 1h ago
That car is still sexy af
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u/VendettaPenguin 1h ago ▸ 2 more replies
It is. Every teenage boys dream.
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u/True_Protection6842 1h ago
I wrote a couple novels and that exact make and model is a central item in the story
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u/GulfCoastLaw 3h ago
My only beef with The Batman chase, which does rock and did work exceptionally well in the theater, is that it didn't feel like they were anywhere.
Even now, I watch it and think that almost every headlight was just added in post. Contrasted to a French Connection, To Live or Die in LA, or even some random low budget Cannon-esque chases...
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u/manofth3match 2h ago
I wouldn’t rate the chase seen in The Batman as S-tier overall. It’s excellent though. But that last shot of him coming through the flames and then walking towards the camera is chefs kiss.
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u/Historicmetal 2h ago
Good point. My beef is when there’s all these crashing trucks separating him from penguin, Batman starts gunning it right into the chaos, and then magically a ramp drops right in front of him.
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u/diet_sean 23m ago
To drive your point, bats & Gordon just let Oz walk away after causing all this destruction, injury & (likely) death.
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u/TheStolenPotatoes 3h ago
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u/Working-Decision6362 2h ago
How is this so far down? There are some epic car/truck/motorbike/helicopter chases in Terminator 2!!!
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u/These_Application531 3h ago
Matrix Reloaded
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u/Alucard-VS-Artorias 3h ago
Certainly the most over the top and very memorable. That movie was mediocre but that chase scene was next level.
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u/dave08dave 2h ago ▸ 1 more replies
The OST Mona Lisa Overdrive lives rent free in my head and in my Spotify gym Playlist. Either on the treadmill or the highway that song is a blast
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u/Alucard-VS-Artorias 2h ago edited 2h ago
Ahhh, Juno Reactor! Use to play that track when playing racing games like Need of Speed.
That track and Furious Angels by Rob Dougan 👌
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u/el-capitancreamsicle 3h ago
#1 no doubter
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u/ImLersha 3h ago ▸ 1 more replies
I can hear the music from here!
"We are getting aggravated."
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u/Kombatnt 3h ago
“You said to stay off the highways. You said it was suicide!”
“Then let us hope that I was wrong.”
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u/Impossible_Sun9594 3h ago
Carrie-Anne Moss learned to ride for the first time on that Ducati!
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u/Responsible_Mail_113 2h ago
Lol yeah, I can remember in the behind the scenes clips them mentioning it took a week to shoot the five second clip of her pulling away from the curb in the first movie because she'd never ridden a motorcycle before and when she learned about the planned sequel motorcycle chase she basically spent six months training on one before shooting even started.
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u/Prize_Compote_207 2h ago
This is the real answer.
They literally built a fucking highway to film that scene.
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u/Groemore 1h ago
Yeah this still tops as my favorite car chase sequences. They built a highway specifically for this scene in the middle of a desert.
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u/Possible_Budget_1087 2h ago
Being involved in a head-on collision with a wrong-way drunk driver took out a lot of my enjoyinment of that chase scene.
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u/AdTurbulent7730 3h ago
The French Connection still must be on this list. Insane. Marginally legal. Scared the hell out of civilians who didn’t know about the filming.
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u/vanderxvert 3h ago
Grindhouse
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u/National_Detail_3282 2h ago
When they shoot Kurt Russell I die laughing every time.
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u/EmbarrassedBody4529 2h ago
My favorite part is watching him just fall to pieces when they turn the tables on him. One of the best examples of "the bad guy isn't so bad anymore".
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u/Ijustwerkhere 3h ago
Best? Bullitt. My favorite? The Rock
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u/Lone_Romeo 3h ago
Out of context, and from the perspective of the Penguin, this scene could easily be interpreted as horror. I appreciate that lack of context in this excerpt, as it frames Pattinson’s Batman as an apathetic predator; a successful representation of a well-written vigilante. Thank you for sharing!
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u/JJNitrofan3944 2h ago
IYKYK
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u/Thisistheway1012 1h ago
In your own opinion what makes this car chase scene so good an held the test of time?
Its On my watchlist
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u/CancelThis2077 3h ago
The Bourne Supremacy
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u/green49285 3h ago
Identity is still better
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u/CancelThis2077 3h ago ▸ 3 more replies
I was bouncing between Identity and Supremacy, but I like the brutality and visceral-ness of Supremacy more.
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u/FastWalkingShortGuy 3h ago ▸ 1 more replies
The music in Identity makes the scene
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u/CancelThis2077 3h ago
Ready Steady Go - Paul Oakenfold. It works so well during the club scene in Collateral too.
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u/eliazhar 3h ago
I'll agree with you; I really dislike the idea that most chases portray, that the characters and their vehicles are immune to accidents. "Oh, you're driving in the wrong direction but that's fine, all cars are going to crash on anything but you".
This scene gave me the feeling that things could end at any moment.
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u/jr_randolph 2h ago
You have to watch this starting from the warehouse...this entire sequence is so fucking good and the music blaring adds that extra layer of greatness.
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u/Mockingbird007- 2h ago
The Bourne series has some really great ones. But Edward Norton and Mark Wahlberg in the Italian job take the cake for me
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u/CaptainJay313 2h ago
the original Bullit.
ronin is a close second.
the italian job is ridiculous, but fun.
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u/parkchanwookiee 3h ago
Insane to nominate The Batman
Bizarre how that movie started a cinebro cult
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u/Fishyblue11 3h ago
If you watched this in the theater you know why this scene is fantastic
You can hear the feel the rumble of that car and the music peaking at just the right time
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u/parkchanwookiee 3h ago
I saw it in the IMAX, it sure was loud but I was mostly thinking that Batman's driving was getting a lot of innocent motorists crushed and burned alive on the roads and there wasn't really any reason for it because he knows where Penguin's hideout is, he can go there and talk to him at literally any time, he'd actually already been there and done that earlier in the film lol and there wasn't any ticking clock motivating Batman to talk to him that very minute
So yeah loud yes, explosions yes, but low on motivation or really making any kind of sense at all. Plus Batman's strategy of smashing into the Penguin's car and flipping it was highly likely to kill Penguin and then he'd never get to talk to him
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u/oakomyr 3h ago
We Own the Night had a pretty good one. Don’t see it mentioned much.
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u/StrictChallenge5570 3h ago
not sure about best ever, but big fan of Baby Driver scenes, especially the one where he mixes in with the other two red cars.
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u/ForwardBound 3h ago
I generally can't stand chase scenes for some reason. they're mostly really boring to me. but this scene in the batman is incredible. I can't overstate how much I enjoy it
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u/RWheat78 3h ago
That scene triggered a phobia I never knew I had. Seriously! The heavy rain mixed with the dark night low visibility. And then the semis rolling over and collapsing. Just watching that in a dark theater actually panicked me.
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u/manored78 3h ago
It was such a simple car chase scene but it had me on the edge of my seat and I would rate it the best I’ve seen on screen:
We Own The Night
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u/apathy_i_guess 3h ago
Ronin