The 20 best car chases in movie history

[gh]

According to the Times of London

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 199765.ece

[Marlow]

1, 3, and 4 are right on - my faves, in that order. Their #2 isn't in my top 10.

edit - oh I see it (2) is the original version - don't remember it at all.

[Dietmar239]

Bourne Supremacy has the best car chase I've ever seen. Vantage Point also had a decent one.

[EPelle]

What makes for a great car chase? Clearly, many of them are unbelievable. I enjoyed the one from "The Rock" and the hummer.

[guru]

What makes for a great car chase?

Any involving the LA river channel. Two of my favs made the list(To Live and Die In LA, The Italian Job), one didn't(Terminator 2). Perhaps Terminator 2 was left off because it wasn't really a car chase in the riverbed, but a motorcycle and a semi :shock:

[gh]

T2 is No. 9.

[Jack Slocombe]

Do not forget OJ and the white Bronco chase. The true American story went all the way to Las Vegas to get to the conclusion.

[guru]

T2 is No. 9.

Oops, missed it. Thanks. Clean sweep for me then!

[gh]

To Live & Die in LA is def. my number one (Bullitt is way overrated), with T2 next. Have never seen Italian Job.

I'd suggest that T3 also belongs on the list, what with all the robot-controlled police cars chasing the hero, and the villain in the huge crane with Arnold hanging from the boom and ripping buildings apart, etc., etc.

Glad to see that they remembered the obscure Freebie & The Bean. The best part of that, as I remember it many years later, is the end of the chase where Caan and Arkin go off The Embarcadero (elevated freeway in San Francisco that no longer exists) and plow through an apartment building and end up in the bedroom with an elderly couple in bed. Caan says, "can I borrow your phone?" (pre-cell days), calls dispatch and says, "Please send a tow truck to.. what's your address?... 365 Sansome." Then a pause for effect and he says, "sixth floor."

[bad hammy]

Bullitt is way overrated

Or not . . .

[Marlow]

Bullitt is way overrated

Or not . . .

Agree - I remember feeling my stomache in my throat when he ramps the hills.

[guru]

To Live & Die in LA is def. my number one...

Watch the guy getting out of the truck at 7:20 lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ_39lxlDAg

[Daisy]

Re: Italian Job

don't remember it at all.

Really? I remember it well, it is a classic but I can't compare to the remake since I have not seen it. (look up Turin Car Chase you know where)

[Conor Dary]

The director's commentaries on the dvds for The French Connection and Ronin are fascinating. In Ronin they really are going that fast with the actors in the cars. And in FC, Friedkin had no city approval, just a few cop friends of Eddie Egan to stop traffic. Amazing no one got killed.

[dukehjsteve]

Has anyone mentioned a cult classic, " Thunder Road " ? Gotta love it when Mitchum pops between the 2 police cars.