One
good chase scene does not a movie make.
Also, there are some very
good chase scenes (there were chase scenes in the first, but they were quite dull to be honest), even though some of the automobiles seem a little too indestructible.
Not exact matches
Scenes include dunking a man in a
well while shackled prisoners await their turn (water torture); sale of women for wives as one is displayed walking in a circle to give people a
better view (slavery), women
chasing men with brooms (domestic violence) and pirates sitting drunk with their bottles (alcohol abuse).
The 2005 Duke of Hazzard car
chase scene stands out as one of the
best examples to date.
The movie crosses the Atlantic to Manhattan, where another
good - looking, but rather conventional
chase scene happens.
Most of the
scenes just follow Jack moving around town, gathering the sights, buying
good, and testing out the gun before the client's arrival, and there are a few spots where the drama sags before a
chase scene or montage pops up.
The
chase scene in the beginning as
well as the seance
scene is worth it alone.
The ensuing
chase scene is very
well handled; it looks great on screen.
The action, especially a midpoint
chase scene, rivals many of even the
best Marvel set pieces when it comes to innovation and pulse - pounding pacing.
Gene Autry, Roy Rogers — nearly every major Western star — owed much of his success to Canutt's daring; eventually, his mastery of the craft was such that scripts were penned without detailed descriptions of their fight
scenes or
chases, and «Action by Yakima Canutt» was simply written instead.By the mid -»20s, Canutt was starring in Westerns as
well as handling stunts.
FLAWLESS's terrible directing, editing and writing, as
well as its inappropriate soundtrack (a peppy samba for
chase scenes / gunfights, really?)
The ending twenty minutes are particularly
good, because the action
scenes are injected with a terrific soundtrack, taking some rote slow - mo
chase scenes and making them eye - catching pieces of brilliance.
However, repetition sets in and the escalation of set pieces reaches some sort of a peak here: there are
good - to - great action,
chase and fight
scenes (Bryan Singer's X-Men films still have an edge on depicting superpowers) but there's also a limit to the number of times people can be kicked through walls before the scraps start to feel samey.
There's a carriage
chase scene that works really
well and the SFX manage to look both cheesy and great at the same time.
But the show's
better moments are its heists,
chase scenes, and the strategies concocted to ensure Hood & company always come out on top.
Despite the life - or - death stakes, this is a funky feel -
good movie studded with physical comedy from a surprisingly cute creature, and genuinely exhilarating car
chase scenes that employ the eponymous monster trucks with whimsy and verve.
It's a
good set piece /
chase scene.
With many of the
chase sequences between the detective and criminal occurring during the middle of the night, Wild routinely emphasized the dark blue and grey shades in many
scenes to draw attention to the two characters» continued disdain for each other, as
well as their own flaws.
Charles Crichton directs this amiable caper with
good humor and applies crack comic timing to the heist
scene and climactic
chase.
EXTRAS: The two - disc set doesn't have much for a movie its size, but there are three production featurettes — on location shooting, filming the train
chase sequence and cowboy boot camp — as
well as a deleted
scene and blooper reel.
From a darkly - lit battle in Berlin to a climactic one featuring a
well - placed submarine, these
scenes can be a bit messy and lack the cohesiveness of some of the
chases from earlier installments.
Not only does Fast & Furious 6 feature car
chase after car
chase that consistently top the one before it (and challenges what we currently know about physics and the resilience of the human body), but the fight
scenes are also exciting, visceral, and more importantly —
well - choreographed and shot.
BEST SCENE: The Manila
chase sequence (from rooftop to highway to dock) is exciting, especially when it offers that exciting knock out by Cross.
There are plenty of scares to be had here - in particular one
chase scene that makes very
good use of shadow and staircases - yet the impact of these
scenes is greatly lessened by the consistent visual and aural notes that reveal what is about to happen before it happens.
Deadpool has now officially surpassed previous record - holder The Matrix: Reloaded, which capitalized on the original film's
good will to secure the top box - office spot (for R - rated) films, despite featuring a car commercial masquerading as a
chase scene.
In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, some of the
best action
scenes — the rescue in the mental hospital, the truck - bike
chase scene — were smaller affairs with fewer characters at risk but they were packed with suspense.
Ted is hobbled by a labored third act and a subplot involving a demented loner played by Giovanni Ribisi that is so ragingly gratuitous, it almost feels like an homage to the famously unnecessary diamond - smuggling subplots of the»80s, but Ted is so consistently, even explosively funny and oddly
good - natured throughout that it really doesn't need a plot at all, let alone an even - less - welcome
chase scene.
It's the slowest
chase scene ever in a Star Wars movie, as the bad guys actually just wait for the
good guys to run out of gas while firing at them every once in awhile.
Outside of some memorably disturbing images, there's very little to keep one interested in the story, and even during a particularly
well - crafted
chase scene near the end of the film, it still remains somewhat unexciting.
Special effects are very
good, and the pratfalls and
chases scenes contain both humor and chaos.
All «top 10»
best - of lists for fight
scenes, car
chases and assassins will have to updated to align with Evans» latest creations.
Some other alternates: «Petrified Forest» for Arizona (an oldie), «The Producers» for New York, «
Good Will Hunting» for Massachusetts (though largely filmed here in Toronto), «Zack and Miri Make a Porno» for Pennsylvania (the western part instead of Philly), «Bullitt» for Califormia (great
chase scene in SF), «Fried Green Tomatoes» for Alabama
Some if the set pieces are really
well handled, and the
chase scenes are nicely done.
On top of all is this is one of the
best car
scenes you'll ever see, with Bourne flying around the streets of Moscow, being
chased by both Urban and the Moscow police, eventually ending up in a pile of twisted car metal.
And this poster, Child's Play 2 by Matt Ryan Tobin, captures one of the
best scenes in the film — the climactic
chase through the
Good Guy warehouse.
The film is introduced with the atypical title «William Friedkin's Film Of Tracy Letts» «Killer Joe,» «suggesting that it'll be a no - frills adaptation of the play, but that's not quite true; it's plenty faithful to the stage version, but Friedkin and Letts (the latter of whom adapted the screenplay himself) do a pretty
good job in making the play cinematic, certainly more so than either «Carnage» or «A Dangerous Method,» adding some striking locations (including an abandoned rollercoaster) and even a
chase scene.
The
chase scene between the Silver Surfer and Human Torch is the
best of the film, but is spoilt by its use in the trailer.
The closing
scenes are another bad idea, still one more of those routine Hollywood
chases and shootouts, with a fight on a boat for
good measure.
It's not a great sign that the
best action
scene is an early, low - stakes bicycle
chase across busy London streets.
The action
scenes are breathtaking and they include some of the
best foot and car
chases ever filmed.
With its deathless car
chase, Friedkin's film became an instant American classic (and Academy - awarded
Best Picture), but the
scene is only the first of two climaxes arising from over an hour of investigatory tension.
Hot - head police captains, torturous and talky bad guys, drug busts, loose cannon cops, some domestic drama, and car
chases represent the bases you'd have to touch in order to make a decent rehash, but outside of a couple of
scenes of Paul regurgitating famous film lines from cop flicks of the 80s (which isn't exactly true, as he mysteriously quotes from movies of other genres and eras as
well), there isn't much to Cop Out one could call a loving spoof.
He also holds his own
well as an imposing action man counterpoint to Neeson, with some of the film's
best fight /
chase scenes.
Neeson is also still doing his action star thing, and still looking
good doing it; Run All Night has some particularly brutal
chase, fight and shootout
scenes, all of which Neeson and Serra pull off smoothly, having so much experience under their collective belt.
Not enough to ruin enjoyment of the film as a whole, but the last half hour is little more than a protracted
chase scene that threatens to undermine what Dante had constructed so
well up to that point.
Montaldo also has fun stories about securing locations at San Quentin and in Las Vegas, as
well as shooting a
chase scene with two cars rented from Hertz.
The movie's harrowing car / subway train
chase was maybe the
best chase ever filmed for a while, and it helped show what you could do with that sort of
scene.
Carol and Mad Max are definitely more of a 1A and 1B than a clear 1 and 2 for my
best of the year, and I remain tickled that this completely crazy two hour
chase scene in a desert reboot of a 30 year old franchise filmed by a 70 year old man has managed to capture the imagination of so many of us.
The Raid 2 has some of the most amazing stunt work and fight
scenes you will ever witness as
well as a super bad ass car
chase.
I also felt the
chase scene, while
well done, was unneccesary and only contributed to the overlong running time of the film.