# Best movie car chase. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 2, 2001, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492 "2001-03-02T13:32:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/21 "2001-03-02T22:27:41Z")
“It’s 110 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.” Another vote here for **The Blues Brothers**. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/22 "2001-03-02T22:47:25Z")
Another vote for _Ronin_. Great car chases in that film. ---
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/23 "2001-03-02T22:57:31Z")
Wish I got here earlier. I’m padding the vote stacks for **Ronin** , **Blues Brothers** , and **Bullitt**. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/24 "2001-03-02T23:01:01Z")
I recommend Jackie Chan’s **Police Story** , in which Jackie chases a car **through a shantytown** down a precipitous hill. When I say through, I mean through the lean-tos and shacks, leaving an enormous trail of flying debris. It’s one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen. Police Story, by the way, introduces the same character Chan later used in two of his most successful films, **Supercop** and **First Strike**. These three are arguably Chan’s very best stunt films. I’ve been trying to figure out whom to annoy for the DVD release of **To Live And Die in L.A.** So far, no luck. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/25 "2001-03-02T23:21:39Z")
Yet another vote for **Ronin**. My second choice would be the Mini chase in **The Italian Job**. ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/26 "2001-03-03T21:04:49Z")
Honorable mention to **Vanishing Point**. The movie is one long car chase. Actually, it was a one long crude, pre-MTV music video car chase. Nice slant on the buddy aspect, though, with Barry Newman in the car and Cleavon Little in the radio station clueing him in on the cops’ whereabouts. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2001, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/27 "2001-03-04T20:46:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rocket88 \* > **And speaking of great chases, duh, (slaps head) how could I have forgotten the last twenty minutes of _The Road Warrior_, as the Humungus’ hordes batter their vehicles against the side of the fuel truck driven by Mal Gibson’s Max?** Hah! If you hadn’t mentioned this I would have! That chase scene is 1/2 the reason I love that movie. Yet more votes here for _Ronin_ and _The Blues Brothers_ In the “unconventional” category, I have two nominations, both from Bond flicks. The motorcycle chase in “Tomorrow Never Dies,” where Pierce Brosnan and Michelle Yeoh are handcuffed together and pursued by a helicopter, and the boat chase in “Live And Let Die.” That boat chase was the only really good part of that movie. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2001, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/28 "2001-03-04T21:47:51Z")
I would definitely vote for “The Blues Brothers,” and while I’m at it, I’ll cast a vote for “[Taxi](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0152930),” the 1998 French film by Luc Besson. ---
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2001, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/29 "2001-03-04T22:18:50Z")
I’d have to agree with previous posters that mentioned _Bullitt_ and _Gone in 60 Seconds_, but the one that always comes to my mind is _Beverly Hills Cop_. The scene at the beginning when Axel Foley’s cigarette sting goes bad is classic. Seeing that city bus do a 180 will stick in my mind forever. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/30 "2001-03-05T01:26:24Z")
The Blues Brothers had some awesome chases. And the best part is they were very real. The mall scene? Filmed in a mall in Wisconsin that was about to be ripped down. The final chase in Chicago? Yes, they really did do 120 in downtown Chicago. In fact, John Landis had some of the scenes reshot with people in the background to prove that the footage was not sped up. Honorable Mention for Gratuity: The car chase scene in The Rock. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2001, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/31 "2001-03-05T21:42:26Z")
I have to chime in with _The Blues Brothers_—both chase scenes. Those were brilliant. I also have to second _Bullitt_. The best thing about that chase is that one of the cars lost no less than seven hubcaps during the action. Fan_tas_tic. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2001, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/32 "2001-03-05T21:48:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tommy the Cat \* > \*\*“It’s 110 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.” > > Another vote here for _The Blues Brothers_. \*\* That was my first reaction to seeing the thread title, and it struck me as strange that it took so long for someone to mention _The Blues Brothers_ and _The Road Warrior_. Two other movies with nifty car chases are _Riding Bean_, which was inspired by _The Blues Brothers_, and _Lupin III and the Castle of Cagliostro_, in which Lupin and Jigen race around the side of a mountain in their Fiat while dodging stikkbombs lobbed at them by the Dusenberg they are pursuing. * * * Pete Long time RGMWer and ardent AOLer ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/33 "2001-03-06T03:01:50Z")
Hey, AMC just had Bullitt on the other day. Cooool movie. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/34 "2001-03-06T11:10:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by psiekier \* > it struck me as strange that it took so long for someone to mention _The Blues Brothers_ and _The Road Warrior_. I’d sort of forgotten the Mad Max movies. I’d given up trying to find the first film on video, is it still being distributed? ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/35 "2001-03-06T16:19:50Z")
Immediately thought of Bullitt and French Coennection. Guess I should see Ronin. The Rock had a pretty good one, too. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/36 "2001-03-06T17:41:06Z")
I liked “The Rock”'s chase scene because it was a sort of tribute-within-a-movie to car chase scenes with all the standard cliches of chase scenes you could fit into a chase. “Speed” has some really terrific stunts and scenes. Yeah, Keanu Reeves is wooden, and it’s not exactly a “chase,” but technically there are some jaw-dropping stunts and scenes there. But my vote goes to “To Live and Die in L.A.” What a scene! ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492/37 "2001-03-06T17:49:22Z")
Thanks, LNM - I forgot all about The French Connection. Also, another vote for Bullitt and Ronin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-car-chase/56492.md?page=1)