I’ve always felt that Bullitt had the best car chase scene; but recognize Ronin is a favorite.
I just watched The Firm and see it had the best foot chase scene that I’ve ever watched.
What are some of the top foot chase scenes in movies that I can add to my viewing pleasure.
As a bonus, I’m willing to entertain other car chase scenes that I may have missed or am unaware of.
The first one that comes to mind is the beginning of Casino Royale.
Here’s the scene on YouTube.
The Naked Prey is one long life-and-death foot chase, of a safari guide pursued by African tribesmen.
Apocalypto had really well done, pulse-pounding foot chases.
There are tons of fabulous foot chances in 80’s/90’s Hong Kong cinema. The first one that comes to mind is the last 30ish minutes of Jackie Chan’s Police Story.
Maybe not the best but certainly one of the most memorable I’ve ever seen was the chase at the beginning of 1997’s The Saint. The actors covered the four miles from Moscow’s Hotel Ukraina (now part of the Radisson chain) to Red Square in less than ten seconds. When this was shown in the cinema at Moscow’s first Radisson hotel, there was a loud gasp from everyone in the audience who knew the city’s geography (including me).
For a good comedic chase, if you can still watch Bill Cosby without cringing, there’s the climacteric chase from the movie Let’s Do It Again.
Easy one for me.
The Secret In Their Eyes, an Argentine film that won the 2009 Oscar for best foreign film. It’s a terrific movie for many reasons, one of which is an amazing foot chase inside a crowded soccer stadium. The entire chase is filmed in one long, complicated, unbroken take. I recommend in very highly.
I seem to recall a good one in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
Pretty much all of Rumble in the Bronx was what first came to my mind.
Indeed. But police story is probably 150 times better. As a whole.
The sequence in the streets of Cairo in Raiders of the Lost Ark, which features several different foot chases – the bad guys chasing Marion, and then Indy chasing the bad guys after they nab her.
I accept the bonus. Perhaps the OP missed The Seven-Ups (1973) featuring (imo) the best car chase in any film:
Unlike the Bullitt scene, you actually see people on the streets in this clip. I think the sound editing is better as well. And topping it off is Richard Lynch smirking at Roy Scheider, a definite passenger improvement over the chubby guy in Bullitt.
Note that the driver of the Pontiac Ventura in this scene is the same guy driving the Dodge Charger in Bullitt: Bill Hickman. He also did much of the stunt driving in The French Connection; and all three films were produced by Philip D’Antoni (he also directed The Seven-Ups).
I’ve always loved this scene from the original Point Break, where Keanu Reeves chases Patrick Swayze through a series of L.A.-area streets, alleyways, backyards and houses. Note especially the moment where Keanu gets hit in the face with a dog:
The 1990s version of Last of the Mohicans. Daniel Day Lewis is apparently one of only a handful of people who have mastered the art of loading a musket while running.
I thought the chase in Tangier in The Bourne Ultimatum was excellent.
In general, foot chases have gotten a lot more exciting with the growth of parkour (such as the aforementioned Casino Royale). I guess District 13 would be the ur-example.
That reminds me - the foot chases in Hot Fuzz, both chasing the shoplifter, and chasing the robed killer.
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
1:23 to 1:42 for the chase. Roger Ebert “It is one of those movie sequences you know you will never forget.”
Ebert’s full review: The Fast Runner movie review & film summary (2002) | Roger Ebert
Legit link to full movie:
https://gem.cbc.ca/media/media/films/atanarjuat-the-fast-runner/38e815a-010b3d46bd3
There’s also a fight scene at 38:00 to 43:30.
The film is remarkable and really needs to be taken in slowly and in its entirety to be grokked.
I like the chase scene in Raising Arizona after Nicolas Cage steals the Huggies. While parts of the chase is not on foot a lot of it is.
Agree Alessan. This is one of my go to ‘guy’ movies. Great photography in my humble opinion. And it even has a song by Concrete Blonde.