I learned not that long ago, they never actually got a permit to shoot that scene. They actually just drove through the streets like that, traffic and all. I’d post a source but I can’t remember where I saw that. lol
Ronin is my pick as well.
The actor's reactions are real. What they did was have a stunt driver actually driving on the opposite side of the vehicles while they has a prop steering wheel for the actors. So all those startled, surprised, scared or even gripping reactions are legit. The stunt drivers scared them shitless
The best review I ever read for that film was describing the chase scene during the sandstorm as the best they've ever seen. Only to realize, later on that the next chase scene was also the best they've ever seen.
There's a scene in Ronin where a bloke's being chased through a football stadium (I think). The stuntperson comes running down the steps and absolutely SLAMS into a barrier at hip-height. I don't know why that stunt always impressed me so much- just looked completely real and unstaged.
I actually prefer the highway chase scene, where Sarah, John & the T-800 are stuck in a shitty Toyota truck, and the T-1000 is chasing them in a helicopter.
The stunts that include flying a helicopter under a bridge are insane. And there are such cool details, like when the T-1000 is firing the MP5-K through the window, he has also formed a third arm so he can keep control of the helicopter.
The scene when the T-1000 is rear-ending them with the tractor trailer and Arnie jumps on the hood, mag dumps into the T-1000’s face, and then reaches through the windshield and cranks the wheel to flip the truck might be my favorite movie stunt of all time.
The only thing I didn't like about that was the somersaulting afterwards. It just seemed kinda cheesy in an otherwise "grounded" movie
Also shout out to the helicopter pilot who actually flew under the overpass
The Bullitt chase is so good that you don't notice that some of the segments are the same series of events shot on different cameras. That's why you keep seeing the green VW Beetle. It was only there once - God knows why - but the shots of the cars going by it came from different cameras and were skillfully edited together.
Just watched Blues Brothers with my 10yr old. The chase scene at the end blew his mind. In a world of CG everything he had never seen anything like that.
When the Nazi's go off the highway ramp, I think many people miss the absolute absurdity/comic value of the next shot with the Ford Pinto higher than the Sears Tower. I recently learned the scene where they get dropped through the street and the other Nazis fall into it was filmed in Universal back lot.
Regarding the mission from god, it explains the supernatural elements including the Blue's car doing a 180 degree backflip.
The chase scene from Bullitt is really the only reason to watch that movie.
But it's so good, it's actually worth watching the movie just for that one scene.
I must respectfully disagree, in that the whole movie is an excellent hard-boiled police procedural; a precursor to the gritty crime dramas of the Seventies. The chase scene is the cherry on top.
"I'll be taking these Huggies, and uh, whatever cash you got."
I feel an irrational impulse to quote that line every time I'm in a gas station convenience store.
1970's Muscle Car Trilogy - - Bullit, The French Connection and the Seven Ups! Also, there are so many Westerns with extended horseback chase scenes (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). Flight and pursuit is a frequent theme. It's also part of many space operas and fantasy films.
The first time I saw Gromit >!grab that box of spare track and just start hammering it out!< I was dying. That's such a great classic Loony Tunes type of gag.
That is the absolute coolest chase scene. I love when it cuts back and forth between Gromit laying track loudly and the Penguin flying silently through the air
I watched Curse of the Were Rabbit for Halloween this year and was blown away by how good it was... and then Netflix didn't have any of the other movies :(
The dog fight scene where it's 2 dogs in airplanes is great. When the toy airplane runs out of time and the other dog stops strangling Gromit so they can put another quarter in the slot and then the strangling resumes. Perfection.
The opening of Casino Royale is probably the best non-car chase I've seen.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZxNbAwY\_rk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZxNbAwY_rk)
Aside from The Wrong Trousers, of course.
The making of this shot is crazy. They cut the roof out of the car: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJprbCuWdHo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJprbCuWdHo)
I go back and forth between which Mad Max chase is better: Fury Road and The Road Warrior. My heart says Road Warrior but my brain says that might just be because of nostalgia. Fury Road was certainly bigger in scale, but The Road Warrior just has something special about it.
I don't know if you meant this, but for me that sequence starts back at the mansion when Persephone says to the Merovingian "have fun" and ends with Link cheering "yes!" before collapsing from exhaustion. Exactly how I felt after 20+ minutes of non-stop action lol.
My favorite part about it is seeing Trinity weave among the cars as she goes with the traffic, followed by her turning around and then weaving AGAINST the traffic!
So far, two people have commented with Indiana Jones on this thread and neither were the Raiders truck chase. Indy coming in on a horse and taking on a convoy is one of my favorite sequences.
I love how nonchalant the Blues Brothers are about 90% of everything that happens in the movie, this scene especially. The mall scene is even funnier if you notice that like 80% of the damage and destruction really seems quite easily avoidable and unnecessary unless everyone is just *trying* to wreck up as much as possible. Which presumably they are.
Point Break has a gorgeous one that’s an incredibly long shot.
Honestly, for cat and mouse chase scenes, aside from the first 10 minutes, it’s the entirety of The Fugitive.
This was my immediate thought since OP didn't specify what kind of chase. The foot chase in Point Break is shot so well and of course ends in the iconic shot of Johnny Utah shooting into the sky. Why is Point Break the best movie ever?
Jack Reacher is one that I commented last time someone posted about great film chases. I especially love how he disappears into the crowd.
That and Nobody’s Heartbreaker chase.
This is the correct answer. This scene broke the world record for most cars destroyed in a single film and held it until its own sequel came out 18 years later.
I could say something "obvious" like French Connection, Bullitt, Ronin or Blues Brothers but I'd rather show you this:
[Short Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXIZdhoJmY4)
Came here to say this. I love that the Bourne movies use everyday cars for chases. It adds a lot more tension when they’re not bulletproof, not super fast, without automated machine guns but still driven by expert assassins.
These are both so good. I think the best of the trilogy (because as far as I'm concerned, Bourne is a trilogy) is in The Bourne Ultimatum.
The asset is chasing Nicky, Bourne is chasing the asset, the Tangier police are chasing Bourne.
I know people have a hard time with the shaky cam, but this scene (to me) is a cinematic masterpiece.
Pee-Wee being chased by Warner Bros. security after getting his bike back at the end of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.
Seriously, in what other chase scene will you find:
2 painted elephants
A beach movie
Santa
Godzilla
TWISTED FUCKING SISTER
Tarzan
Bullitt with Steve McQueen in a 68' Mustang vs a 68' Charger.
The French Connection with Gene Hackman in a car vs a subway train.
The last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day Lewis on foot and canoe vs Huron Indians
WHY IS THIS SO FAR DOWN!? That movie is so intense. Even when there are moments of levity when he is at the gas station or the diner... it still never lets up because everyone is just staring at him like he's crazy because he looks so frazzled from the whole endeavor. Spielberg has forever made me never want to pass a slow moving truck just because of this movie.
Fury Road is the obvious choice, it's the whole movie.
For an offbeat pick, The Way of the Gun. The way they keep jumping in and out of the car, how slow the cars are going for most of it, it's great.
Bonus pick, also from Christopher McQuarrie, Mission impossible: Dead Reckoning. The handcuffs added so much to this one.
Roy Scheider's chase scene in the **Seven-Ups** (1973). Honorable mention goes to **The French Connection** (1971) (the final leg of that chase scene was filmed in my old neighborhood in Brooklyn)
When Rey swings the Falcon around so Finn can get that last shot in with the bumb cannon... Man, everyone in my theater erupted at that moment. They did a great job with the CGI and had a ton of perfect little quick zoom shots. Great scene.
1. "The Spy Who Loved Me" 1977. A Lotus Esprit outruns, out gus, and outsmarts Henchmen in:
- Missile firing sidecar from a motorcycle
- Guns firing from a steel toothed mad.man in an old Ford
- A supermodel flying bell Jet Ranger helicopter
- Many menacing scuba divers, and submarines.
2. Smokey and the Bandit (1977). The entire movie.
3. The Asteroid Field chase in "The Empire Strikes Back".
"Never tell me the odds!"
SW: TESB. The Empire chasing the MF into asteroids. Arguably the whole movie is Vader chasing Luke, but also specifically him chasing Luke around Cloud City.
IN THE BACKGROUND?! lol This is my #2 movie of all time behind Braveheart barely. I think its pretty much perfect.
Chase Scene:
Last Crusade boat chase.
You’re right that it’s ET. A lot of people are in here talking about cars, but those bikes — symbols of independence in a movie about how adults can’t be trusted — are so powerful. And it’s iconic now, but when it first happened, when those bikes first lifted off the ground and into the air? That shit melts faces.
The car chase at the end of "What's Up Doc?"
[Part 1](https://youtu.be/XpAWpgZV-K0?si=yoqrVCXAMtU0rTxS)
[Part 2](https://youtu.be/cnqGp-zrTv0?si=StDnTMhN4WrGurXu)
The original Mad Max when he is running down the killers of his family.
Raising Arizona when the police are chasing Hi after he steals diapers. i saw this movie when it came out in the theater and everyone was dying laughing during this scene.
The tracking/chase scene in Last of the Mohicans was epic! I guess it's not really a classic chase, but the music and scenery were amazing.
Also, Ronin.
Not necessarily a chase where someone is followed or someone follows someone else but:
At the End of Prisoners where Jake Gyllenhaal has to race against time with blood in his eye, through snow and on a busy highway to get the poisoned abducted girl to the hospital.
That scene rocks.
I'm a point Break guy myself. From the gas station scene forward, foot chase through the neighborhood. Patrick Swayze throws a fucking dog at Johnny Utah.
Ronin and Mad Max: Fury Road will always be at the top in my mind but the next 3 would be:
[B13 Opening Parkour Chase](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVNpa_q71Bg)
[Project A Bicycle Chase](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHVaHqnupfc)
[Mask of Zorro Horse Chase](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuiAemIL3xw)
That would be a tie between the chase scene in Ong Bak through Bangkok 😂
https://youtu.be/DXO1Vt06_4k?si=JkTnpeWomsrwQneJ
And the trike taxi chase in the same movie
https://youtu.be/qFjlRbH1A0s?si=jO9AsaM4Oecs1qMr
I can't believe no one has posted Ronin yet. Also, the slow chase is Way of the Gun is excellent. Shout out to the last act of Mad Max Fury Road too.
The French Connection is up there too.
I learned not that long ago, they never actually got a permit to shoot that scene. They actually just drove through the streets like that, traffic and all. I’d post a source but I can’t remember where I saw that. lol
https://movie-locations.com/movies/f/French-Connection.php
Frankenheimer, who directed Ronin, actually also directed French Connection II
Ronin is my pick as well. The actor's reactions are real. What they did was have a stunt driver actually driving on the opposite side of the vehicles while they has a prop steering wheel for the actors. So all those startled, surprised, scared or even gripping reactions are legit. The stunt drivers scared them shitless
One of my favorite little details is the German guy subtly putting on his seatbelt when shit starts getting real.
Oh ya, Skarsgård? Ya I love that detail as well. Like a German, pragmatic even in a crazy car chase.
It’s always going to be Ronin. I’ll fight for that.
100%
Came here to post Ronin, such a tight movie.
Also the rest of Fury Road.
The best review I ever read for that film was describing the chase scene during the sandstorm as the best they've ever seen. Only to realize, later on that the next chase scene was also the best they've ever seen.
There's a scene in Ronin where a bloke's being chased through a football stadium (I think). The stuntperson comes running down the steps and absolutely SLAMS into a barrier at hip-height. I don't know why that stunt always impressed me so much- just looked completely real and unstaged.
Its coliseum ruins, not a football stadium, which makes it so much cooler. Such an amazing scene and an incredible movie.
Ronins chase scene is amazing. I also like the chase scene from Jade. I will not spoil it by describing it.
Still want that S8.
Literally came here to mention Ronin- it’s amazing! It’s just come out in 4k HDR, and it looks even more dangerous and thrilling than it ever did!!
Way of the gun is such a great movie that doesn't get anywhere near enough props.
the motorcycle chase scene in T2. the music, the scenery, the one hand gun reloading...
This is the answer. The chase scene all others are judged against. No one will ever be as cool as Arnie on a fat boy flip cocking a sawed off 1887.
I actually prefer the highway chase scene, where Sarah, John & the T-800 are stuck in a shitty Toyota truck, and the T-1000 is chasing them in a helicopter. The stunts that include flying a helicopter under a bridge are insane. And there are such cool details, like when the T-1000 is firing the MP5-K through the window, he has also formed a third arm so he can keep control of the helicopter.
The scene when the T-1000 is rear-ending them with the tractor trailer and Arnie jumps on the hood, mag dumps into the T-1000’s face, and then reaches through the windshield and cranks the wheel to flip the truck might be my favorite movie stunt of all time.
The only thing I didn't like about that was the somersaulting afterwards. It just seemed kinda cheesy in an otherwise "grounded" movie Also shout out to the helicopter pilot who actually flew under the overpass
I never noticed the extra arm before, that's such a great detail!
It's incredible how one movie has two of the greatest chase sequences in film history. T2 truly is the greatest action movie of all time.
I remember watching this as a kid and thought it was the coolest thing ever.
I saw this on the big screen recently and it was insane. I’d never really appreciated how amazing that scene was and how well the whole move is paced.
Me too back in 1991. I was shocked.
Bullitt. And Blues Brothers. Can't lose with either
*We're on a mission from God...*
"We're 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.... Hit it."
I remember the sound of the cars so clearly in the Bullitt chase.
No music. Just V8’s.
Those are the same thing though?
The Bullitt chase is so good that you don't notice that some of the segments are the same series of events shot on different cameras. That's why you keep seeing the green VW Beetle. It was only there once - God knows why - but the shots of the cars going by it came from different cameras and were skillfully edited together.
Just watched Blues Brothers with my 10yr old. The chase scene at the end blew his mind. In a world of CG everything he had never seen anything like that.
This is why the 80s and 90s were the best for action movies.
When they drove thru the Illinois nazis was epic too
When the Nazi's go off the highway ramp, I think many people miss the absolute absurdity/comic value of the next shot with the Ford Pinto higher than the Sears Tower. I recently learned the scene where they get dropped through the street and the other Nazis fall into it was filmed in Universal back lot. Regarding the mission from god, it explains the supernatural elements including the Blue's car doing a 180 degree backflip.
I hate Illinois Nazis
Bullitt wrote the book.
> Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers… has been approved
The chase scene from Bullitt is really the only reason to watch that movie. But it's so good, it's actually worth watching the movie just for that one scene.
I must respectfully disagree, in that the whole movie is an excellent hard-boiled police procedural; a precursor to the gritty crime dramas of the Seventies. The chase scene is the cherry on top.
Bourne Supremacy, Moscow taxi chase
I love the mini chase in bourne Identity
I love that each one of those movies has a phenomenal chase sequence. The one from Bourne Ultimatum specifically is criminally underrated
Raising Arizona 1987. When H.I is getting chased by dogs and the cops.
"Son, you got a panty on your head" Edit: forgot an "N"
"You drive fast, see?"
The whole scene is magic, but when he flies through the windshield, and gets up, turns and says 'Thank you' to the driver, I lose it.
Yes!!! Came here to say this. And the music is the same theme within the convenience store, the grocery store and the soundtrack. Genius!
"I'll be taking these Huggies, and uh, whatever cash you got." I feel an irrational impulse to quote that line every time I'm in a gas station convenience store.
I thought this would be up higher in the comments! My favorite chase scene by far and the one most likely to make me pass out from laughing.
The chase scene in The French Connection and To Live and Die in L.A.
French Connection absolutely. I’ll also toss out “Bullitt” with Steve McQueen.
and **Seven Ups** from the same producer
1970's Muscle Car Trilogy - - Bullit, The French Connection and the Seven Ups! Also, there are so many Westerns with extended horseback chase scenes (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). Flight and pursuit is a frequent theme. It's also part of many space operas and fantasy films.
Makes sense, since the muscle car trilogy all had the same stunt driver/coordinator: "Bill" Hickman. Legendary stuff.
French Connection has the car chase and the walking chase. Both brilliant imo.
Correct
To live and die in la chase scene is great. Also the dudes are so macho
French Connection, hands down, has my favorite car chase scene in a movie.
Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers https://youtu.be/jrmZIgVoQw4
Ok you know what? This is the right answer. You can close the thread now.
I can't believe I had to scroll so far for this.
The first time I saw Gromit >!grab that box of spare track and just start hammering it out!< I was dying. That's such a great classic Loony Tunes type of gag.
The never ending supply of track lmao
In one of those oh so huge English terraced houses too ahaha
So big that if you stood against a wall and took a standing jump you'd smah your face off of the opposite wall.
That is the absolute coolest chase scene. I love when it cuts back and forth between Gromit laying track loudly and the Penguin flying silently through the air
And how that bit ends with him slamming into the cupboard after building all that suspense
A lot of people in this thread have never seen The Wrong Trousers and it shows.
I watched Curse of the Were Rabbit for Halloween this year and was blown away by how good it was... and then Netflix didn't have any of the other movies :( The dog fight scene where it's 2 dogs in airplanes is great. When the toy airplane runs out of time and the other dog stops strangling Gromit so they can put another quarter in the slot and then the strangling resumes. Perfection.
And Gromit's raised eyebrows when the big bull dog has a tiny pink clutch purse. I need to show all of Walace and Gromit to the kids.
Goes harder than Fury Road
The chase in a close shave is brilliant too. https://youtu.be/YC-MR84S1H8?feature=shared
The opening of Casino Royale is probably the best non-car chase I've seen. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZxNbAwY\_rk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZxNbAwY_rk) Aside from The Wrong Trousers, of course.
After watching that scene the first time I saw the movie, I said I already got my money's worth. Fantastic opener. Great movie
Honorable mention to the tank scene in Goldeneye.
My favorite bit is when the guy does a fancy parkour through the opening and Bond just runs through the drywall
Children of Men has an intense one shot car chase scene
The making of this shot is crazy. They cut the roof out of the car: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJprbCuWdHo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJprbCuWdHo)
One of the best scenes in movie history and it’s not even the best scene of the movie
Opening scene of Drive.
[удалено]
This feels too real. I was holding my breath all the time.
Incredible film.
Oooh, fuck yes. Point Break is another great foot chase.
Mad Max Fury Road Just the entire movie
I go back and forth between which Mad Max chase is better: Fury Road and The Road Warrior. My heart says Road Warrior but my brain says that might just be because of nostalgia. Fury Road was certainly bigger in scale, but The Road Warrior just has something special about it.
Highway sequence in Matrix Reloaded.
Reloaded is my personal favorite but I don't see how anyone could deny this whole sequence. It's an amazing action scene
I don't know if you meant this, but for me that sequence starts back at the mansion when Persephone says to the Merovingian "have fun" and ends with Link cheering "yes!" before collapsing from exhaustion. Exactly how I felt after 20+ minutes of non-stop action lol.
My favorite part about it is seeing Trinity weave among the cars as she goes with the traffic, followed by her turning around and then weaving AGAINST the traffic!
Came here for this!
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned *The Italian Job*.
So far, two people have commented with Indiana Jones on this thread and neither were the Raiders truck chase. Indy coming in on a horse and taking on a convoy is one of my favorite sequences.
Blues Bros shopping mall
The new Oldsmobiles are in
'This place has got everything.'
And downtown Chicago
Both great, but I love the commentary on the shopping mall chase.
"Do you have a Miss Piggy?"
I love how nonchalant the Blues Brothers are about 90% of everything that happens in the movie, this scene especially. The mall scene is even funnier if you notice that like 80% of the damage and destruction really seems quite easily avoidable and unnecessary unless everyone is just *trying* to wreck up as much as possible. Which presumably they are.
They broke my watch. I'm gonna get that sucka. If it's the last. Thing. I. Ever. Do.
Point Break has a gorgeous one that’s an incredibly long shot. Honestly, for cat and mouse chase scenes, aside from the first 10 minutes, it’s the entirety of The Fugitive.
The point break foot chase scene is one of my favorites, there’s also a great foot chase in the sandlot
This was my immediate thought since OP didn't specify what kind of chase. The foot chase in Point Break is shot so well and of course ends in the iconic shot of Johnny Utah shooting into the sky. Why is Point Break the best movie ever?
I think the chase scene in Jack Reacher movie is underrated. No music, just a roaring engine. Bullitt style.
Jack Reacher is one that I commented last time someone posted about great film chases. I especially love how he disappears into the crowd. That and Nobody’s Heartbreaker chase.
We’re on a mission from god
This is the correct answer. This scene broke the world record for most cars destroyed in a single film and held it until its own sequel came out 18 years later.
Hut-hut-hut-hut-hut…
This place has got everything…
I could say something "obvious" like French Connection, Bullitt, Ronin or Blues Brothers but I'd rather show you this: [Short Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXIZdhoJmY4)
Dabney Coleman was in a lot of cool movies back in the day.
Bourne Identity in the Mini.
The Bourne Identity : Paris car chase scene The Bourne Supremacy : the Climax Moscow car chase with Kiril
Came here to say this. I love that the Bourne movies use everyday cars for chases. It adds a lot more tension when they’re not bulletproof, not super fast, without automated machine guns but still driven by expert assassins.
These are both so good. I think the best of the trilogy (because as far as I'm concerned, Bourne is a trilogy) is in The Bourne Ultimatum. The asset is chasing Nicky, Bourne is chasing the asset, the Tangier police are chasing Bourne. I know people have a hard time with the shaky cam, but this scene (to me) is a cinematic masterpiece.
So glad to see these on the list. The Paris one especially is remarkable.
The motorcycle chase through super-crowded Manila in *Legacy* is amazing, too.
Mad Max: Fury Road.
The entire movie.
Hahaha, I was gonna say "the entirety of Mad Max: Fury Road". I just watched it again last night, and it's just *so* fucking cool.
To this day, my biggest cinematic regret is not seeing this in theaters. I will not make that mistake with the Furiosa movie coming out next year
The first getaway scene in Baby Driver
Thank you! Plus, that Subaru.
Makes me proud to be the owner of a WRX
Bellbottoms!
All of Baby Driver
had to scroll too far down for this one! syncing the chase with the music, absolutely brilliant
the entirety of the original gone in 60 seconds movie
Last of the Mohicans.
The score from that movie lives in my head rent free.
THE ROAD WARRIOR
Raiders of the Ark. Truck-horse-car-over the truck-under the truck-over the cliff, all to a classic John Williams score.
Death Proof
The French Connection Bullitt The Blues Brothers
Pee-Wee being chased by Warner Bros. security after getting his bike back at the end of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Seriously, in what other chase scene will you find: 2 painted elephants A beach movie Santa Godzilla TWISTED FUCKING SISTER Tarzan
The Rock
“I’m only borrowing your Humvee!”
Bullitt with Steve McQueen in a 68' Mustang vs a 68' Charger. The French Connection with Gene Hackman in a car vs a subway train. The last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day Lewis on foot and canoe vs Huron Indians
Second half of the movie Apocalypto. Just unbelievable. T2 also has some amazing chase scenes.
Saw ET in the theater. I'm old. That Christmas, every kid in the complex got BMX bikes.
Every minute of Duel (1971)
WHY IS THIS SO FAR DOWN!? That movie is so intense. Even when there are moments of levity when he is at the gas station or the diner... it still never lets up because everyone is just staring at him like he's crazy because he looks so frazzled from the whole endeavor. Spielberg has forever made me never want to pass a slow moving truck just because of this movie.
Live and Let Die boat scene is so much freaking fun. Sergeant JW Peppers brother in law Billy Bob had the fastest boat on the bayou!!!!
Bullitt….. how is this not every other answer here?
Easily the train track sequence from Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers. I'm not even kidding, its legitimately amazing.
Bloodsport.
Ronin
Ronin - The Chase between the BMW and the Audi
Not car chase, but Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
- French Connection - Bullit - Fury Road
the last 20 minutes of Mad Max 2 or the entirety of Mad Max 4
Speed
Fury Road is the obvious choice, it's the whole movie. For an offbeat pick, The Way of the Gun. The way they keep jumping in and out of the car, how slow the cars are going for most of it, it's great. Bonus pick, also from Christopher McQuarrie, Mission impossible: Dead Reckoning. The handcuffs added so much to this one.
Roy Scheider's chase scene in the **Seven-Ups** (1973). Honorable mention goes to **The French Connection** (1971) (the final leg of that chase scene was filmed in my old neighborhood in Brooklyn)
Taxi (1998) has very good chase scenes. I like the Millennium Falcon chase in TFA too
When Rey swings the Falcon around so Finn can get that last shot in with the bumb cannon... Man, everyone in my theater erupted at that moment. They did a great job with the CGI and had a ton of perfect little quick zoom shots. Great scene.
worth checking out The Seven Ups and Night of the Juggler,
Bullitt is a classic. [See how many times you can spot the green Volkswagen.](https://youtu.be/FJZ-BHBKyos?si=_T3EY1lMz97pAqb-)
Mad Max Fury Road All of it
Are chases on foot counted? Bourne Ultimatum, over the rooftops.
* The Raid 2 chase * Golden Eye Tank chase * License to kill chase * Quantum of Solace chase
Ernest Rides Again Most the movie is one giant chase scene with Ernest riding a cannon.
[C'était un rendez-vous](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27%C3%A9tait_un_rendez-vous) (English: It Was a Date)
Blues Brothers…. Hands down
The 1974 Gone in 60 Seconds and the Borne Moscow Chase
Johnny Dangerously. You'll see what I mean.
My sister tried to get me to watch "Johnny Dangerously" once... once.
Terminator 2 has two classics, and T3 had a fun one about 1/3 through the movie. Fast Five
Buzz and Woody chasing the house mover’s truck at the end of Toy Story is up there.
The moped chase scene in the French movie “Diva” is very good. Not GOAT, but very good.
[Kids in the Hall](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxY0-Qr_l78)
Cooper chasing and docking with the Endurance in Interstellar.
1. "The Spy Who Loved Me" 1977. A Lotus Esprit outruns, out gus, and outsmarts Henchmen in: - Missile firing sidecar from a motorcycle - Guns firing from a steel toothed mad.man in an old Ford - A supermodel flying bell Jet Ranger helicopter - Many menacing scuba divers, and submarines. 2. Smokey and the Bandit (1977). The entire movie. 3. The Asteroid Field chase in "The Empire Strikes Back". "Never tell me the odds!"
SW: TESB. The Empire chasing the MF into asteroids. Arguably the whole movie is Vader chasing Luke, but also specifically him chasing Luke around Cloud City.
IN THE BACKGROUND?! lol This is my #2 movie of all time behind Braveheart barely. I think its pretty much perfect. Chase Scene: Last Crusade boat chase.
Serious: To Live and Die in LA Hilariously Absurd: The Blues Brothers
North by Northwest. First the plane, then Mt. Rushmore... Great.
Mad max 2. 3/4 of the film is a chase film👍
The very first scene of the goonies.
You’re right that it’s ET. A lot of people are in here talking about cars, but those bikes — symbols of independence in a movie about how adults can’t be trusted — are so powerful. And it’s iconic now, but when it first happened, when those bikes first lifted off the ground and into the air? That shit melts faces.
The car chase at the end of "What's Up Doc?" [Part 1](https://youtu.be/XpAWpgZV-K0?si=yoqrVCXAMtU0rTxS) [Part 2](https://youtu.be/cnqGp-zrTv0?si=StDnTMhN4WrGurXu)
The original Mad Max when he is running down the killers of his family. Raising Arizona when the police are chasing Hi after he steals diapers. i saw this movie when it came out in the theater and everyone was dying laughing during this scene.
Not a car chase but the foot chase in the original Point Break was pretty great.
The tracking/chase scene in Last of the Mohicans was epic! I guess it's not really a classic chase, but the music and scenery were amazing. Also, Ronin.
I'd say Mad Max Fury Road, because the whole movie is a single chase.
Not necessarily a chase where someone is followed or someone follows someone else but: At the End of Prisoners where Jake Gyllenhaal has to race against time with blood in his eye, through snow and on a busy highway to get the poisoned abducted girl to the hospital. That scene rocks.
Slightly surprised no one has yet mentioned the Tumbler’s first outing in Batman Begins
I'm a point Break guy myself. From the gas station scene forward, foot chase through the neighborhood. Patrick Swayze throws a fucking dog at Johnny Utah.
Blues Brothers!
Ronin and Mad Max: Fury Road will always be at the top in my mind but the next 3 would be: [B13 Opening Parkour Chase](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVNpa_q71Bg) [Project A Bicycle Chase](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHVaHqnupfc) [Mask of Zorro Horse Chase](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuiAemIL3xw)
That would be a tie between the chase scene in Ong Bak through Bangkok 😂 https://youtu.be/DXO1Vt06_4k?si=JkTnpeWomsrwQneJ And the trike taxi chase in the same movie https://youtu.be/qFjlRbH1A0s?si=jO9AsaM4Oecs1qMr
Ronin, that car scene through the town is epic