What Movie has the Best Car Chase?

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

My votes are Bullit (1968) with Steve McQueen and Bourne Supremacy (2004) with Matt Damon. Bonnie and Clyde (1968) and Blues Brothers (1980) also have car chases worth noting.

I'm curious to find what other movies have great car chases. What are yours?

[bigsleepj]

Animated: The Castle of Cagliostro

Live-action is a bit tougher. Ronin has a few good car-chase scenes in it, and The French Connection (an otherwise overated movie) has a brief but excellent car-chase scene in it (considered one of the best car-chases ever). Bourne Supremacy's did not blow my socks off so I can't remember much of it. Other than that, I'll have to think a bit more to see which comes to mind.

Buster Keaton's silent classic The General does have great chase scenes, though it's two trains chasing each other, not cars.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Sorry, I didn't enjoy The General (maybe I just don't like Keaton's style, I don't know).
Yes, Ronin has excellent car-chases also.
Good job J! (Can't believe I forgot: The Castle of Cagliostro - that certainly was a goody!)

[Scarecrow]

James Bond movies usually always have a great car chase... or boat chase... or some other kind of chase

Umm.. other than that? Hmm.. Fast and the Furious (jk) Umm.. I dunno cant think of anything else with a great car chase that really stands out.

[bigsleepj]

Sorry, I didn't enjoy The General

*bursts out crying and runs to his room*

Just kidding. Don't worry about it. Tastes differ. Actually I didn't like it that much first time I watched it, but it grew on me.

[mechana2015]

I call Ronin best for the decent attempt at realism. Blues brothers is greatest for comedy and destruction.

[Radical Dreamer]

I would say The Bourne Supremacy (or Identity), but that might have something to do with the fact that that's one of the few movies I've seen with car chases in them. XD

[K. Ayato]

I agree with mechana on Ronin and I've also seen clips of the chase scene from Bullit. Pretty impressive.

[Kokhiri Sojourn]

I really liked "The Italian Job" for this one.

[Roy Mustang]

Sorry, I didn't enjoy The General (maybe I just don't like Keaton's style, I don't know).

I didn't like that movie, because it was comedy base a true story and the movie never put in facts on the true of the story.


Wingzero22

[bigsleepj]

I didn't like that movie, because it was comedy base a true story and the movie never put in facts on the true of the story.

Facts smacts. The General was inspired by a real event but it never really claimed to be a true story or a version of that story. There is no "this is based on a true story" in the opening credits, or anything similar in the whole movie. If you had to fault movies solely on facts, then a lot of good movies would have to be buried, movies with more blatant fictional takes on real events and people. In the long list "The General" is most certainly the least..

• Lawrence of Arabia (fictional take on Lawrence)
• Bridge on the River Kwai (shamelessly ahistorical as anything ever produced by Hollwood)
• The Last Samurai (same as above)
• Amadeus (overblows the rivalry between Salieri and Mozart)
• Braveheart (very sloppy history)
• Star Wars (no historical basis whatsoever, yet claims to have taken place a long time ago... okay I'm being sardonic)
• Fargo (claims to be based on a true story but is deliberately fictional)
• A Beautiful Mind (practically fiction)
• Any Robin Hood movie
• Gladiator (little or no accuracy)
• Sound of Music (they escaped in the trains, not per foot over the mountains)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (the real Cyrano was a bitter, misanthropic man as opposed to Edmond Rostand's super-romantic genius poet).

The list goes on. I don't let the lack of facts remove anything from these movies since I like them all (Amadeus and Fargo are specifically favourites of mine).