# Movies best foot chases **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [October 26, 2020, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902 "2020-10-26T03:34:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/21 "2020-10-26T13:01:47Z")
That was the first one that came to my mind too. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/22 "2020-10-26T13:03:06Z")
For a recent example, if not necessarily epic, _Extraction_ has several minutes of people running out of a car and into and around a crowded apartment complex while fleeing from a swarm of cops. Good editing to disguise the cuts, too. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/24 "2020-10-26T14:09:18Z")
Not from a movie, but there’s a great foot chase in an episode of _The Rockford Files_. Jim is meeting someone for a ransom exchange at the top of Hoover Dam. The Feds come and break up the party, but Jim has to chase the ringleader himself. So he does; all through the dam. They both come out the bottom of the dam just too tired to keep chasing anymore. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/25 "2020-10-26T14:15:55Z")
Amen. First, _and only,_ one that came to my mind ! So, so good. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/26 "2020-10-26T14:43:51Z")
Wasn’t there a pretty good one in Baby Driver? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/27 "2020-10-26T16:01:21Z")
More McQueen: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MTKXfN4A9-A/maxresdefault.jpg "The Hunter (1980) - Rooftop Chase Scene (5/10) | Movieclips") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTKXfN4A9-A) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HkOHuty4InU/maxresdefault.jpg "The Hunter (1980) - Train Shooting Scene (6/10) | Movieclips") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkOHuty4InU) This was a great sequence but I still can’t remember what it was: > [@Movies Filmed Elsewhere Than Where They're Supposed to Be and Gone Comically Wrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-filmed-elsewhere-than-where-theyre-supposed-to-be-and-gone-comically-wrong/444278/137): > > WMATA hardly ever grants permission to film in any of their facilities. I recall seeing an outdoor Metro platform in one movie, one guy was chasing another guy in and out of a stopped train. Wish I could remember what it was, I want to say the French Connection sequel with Ed O’Neill but IMDb only has NYC & Tokyo as locations for it. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/28 "2020-10-26T16:19:46Z")
Didn’t Chuck Norris have a shootout on top of the Chicago El in _ **Code of Silence** _? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/29 "2020-10-26T16:23:26Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > 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. That was going to be my second suggestion, after Raiders. It’s mostly just Cage as the one on foot, but I love the cinematography in it. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/30 "2020-10-26T18:52:02Z")
_Tell No One_ (2006), a French thriller where the protaganist (wrongly accused as often happens) is chased by cops, down stairs, over fences, then [across a busy highway](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swdfDnQiBtw), dodging speeding cars and causing a huge pileup - cars, trucks, a motorcycle, almost getting creamed but somehow making it, and if a few innocnts are killed / hurt in the process, no matter. Later, running like a son-of-a-bitch, his foot slides on the pavement and he takes a huge fall - ow! (It’s a stuntman, but still pretty shocking.) ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/31 "2020-10-26T18:57:22Z")
My favorite is the foot chase in [“Men in Black”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icErgB_ZmFM) that gains the notice of Agent “K” and paves the way for Will Smith to become an agent himself. ---
**Author:** ![omenran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omenran/32/3318_2.png) [@omenran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omenran)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/32 "2020-10-26T19:48:19Z")
For me, it’s Dangan Runner/Nonstop by Sabu. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_kjYjlq9G4I/hqdefault.jpg "DANGAN RUNNER 弾丸ランナー directed by SABU - English subtitled trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kjYjlq9G4I) Most of the movie is a chase on foot, and all of it is about the running or the people who are running. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/33 "2020-10-26T20:33:02Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Didn’t Chuck Norris have a shootout on top of the Chicago El in _ **Code of Silence** _ ? Some sort of fight, anyway, according to [TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/CodeOfSilence) (under the “Mood Whiplash” entry). ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/34 "2020-10-26T22:58:25Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Unlike the _Bullitt_ scene, you actually see people on the streets in this clip. Yes, but the structure of the chase is very similar to Bullitt. They used some of the same set ups. There even was a VW. Also, in no way could a 2-barrel 350 single exaust automatic transmission equipped “Pontiac Nova” sound like that. Not only did they use the Bullitt engine sounds, they even left in that weird “double clutch upshift” that Bullitt’s 4-speed Mustang did. Not to mention, Bullitt didn’t let the bad guys get away. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/35 "2020-10-27T00:07:13Z")
**District B13** Basically the entire movie is just an excuse to show David Belle, the “inventor” of parkour, doing a bunch of cool parkour stuff. A typical scene (NSFW language, but only if your coworkers speak French): [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VHSoPTJNfPE/maxresdefault.jpg "District B13 (1/10) Movie CLIP - Parkour Chase (2004) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHSoPTJNfPE) ---
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Tony Jaa from Ong Bak: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DXO1Vt06_4k/maxresdefault.jpg "Ong Bak | Chased through Bangkok") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXO1Vt06_4k) ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/37 "2020-10-27T00:38:34Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VxNiEEtYe4Q/maxresdefault.jpg "The Matrix First Fight Scene HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxNiEEtYe4Q) ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/38 "2020-10-27T04:14:19Z")
From a movie that might fall under the ‘Things you like but are not supposed to’ pigeonhole, ‘The Warriors’. The scene in northern Central Park NYC where two members of the Warriors are being chased by the entire ‘Baseball Furies’ gang. Running flat out but cannot shake the Furies, and are getting winded to the point they can hardly speak. I can almost feel their tightness of chest and shinsplints…and the knowledge that if they’re run down they’ll be beaten to death with baseball bats. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/39 "2020-10-27T04:24:00Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Also, in no way could a 2-barrel 350 single exaust automatic transmission equipped “Pontiac Nova” sound like that. Yeah but it’s got the shaker hood of the 1974 GTO. The only year they used the Ventura body for the GTO and the last year of the “real” GTO, which had a 350 4-barrel and dual exhaust. Was good for the low 16s at about 88-89 mph in the quarter mile. Much stronger than the 2BBL 350 but well within the strangulation era of “performance” back then…stock anyways. Could be a cobble-up job for the film. Quite possible given a high budget. True enough about the phony manual trans sounds though. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902/40 "2020-10-27T04:51:21Z")
Al Pacino during the big robbery scene in Heat: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyZXT9Z6Y_c) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-best-foot-chases/923902.md?page=1)