Favorite Shootout Movie?

[FireArmFan]

too hard to pick a favorite but i will agree with everyone else with heat, ronin, way of the gun, and assault on precinct 13. Also, Collateral had excellent gun handling, but there wasn't really any "shootouts" per say. Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, and other war movies, but I dont know if war can be considered as a shootout, rather than just a warzone. Also the final shootout in the Miami Vice movie. I thought that was really well done.

 

[KMD]

Boondock Saints

 

[Headless]

Rambo.

 

[MikePGS]

As someone mentioned earlier, the movie The Departed had some pretty good scenes, but like a lot of you, hands down i'm going to go with Heat. That movie is amazing, and as someone pointed out (I think the guy at madogre.com) the guns seem appropriately cast, as if they are actors as well.

 

[FAT PAT]

Heat and Boondock Saints are the best!

 

[NORTEXED]

In westerns, "Silverado" when Costner backs out of the corner door of the saloon and 2 guns the bad guys on either side at the same time. In war movies, it's a toss up between "Saving Private Ryan" and "A Bridge Too Far". The Brits in A Bridge did well with their bolt guns, little Sterlings, and I love the top feed Bren guns.

 

[Piedmont Plinker]

How can you forget "The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns?"
Those aren't the best. Of the movies I've seen so far, some of the best are:
"U.S. Marshalls"-great shooting sequences. Also realistic comment on the GLOCK
"Magificent Seven"-self explanatory
"Band of Brothers"-gotta love the Airborne
"Lethal Weapon 3"-the whole thing is aboout guns
"Jaws"-not really a shootout, but who doesnt like watching a shark get blown to bits with an M1
"SWAT"- Kimber 1911 + SLJ
the Die Hard and Rambo series
"Inside Man"-not that much shooting, but some good guns
"Sixteen Blocks"

 

[Cosmoline]

Heat is among the best for realism, but if the goal is raw entertainment and intensity, "HARD BOILED" has the greatest shootouts of all time, bar none. It also has the highest live non-CGI body count of any film ever and probably set off more squibs than any film ever. It also has the longest continuous film shot in any shootout and the longest single shootout I know of (the hospital). Sillywood directors have been trying to copy this and other Wu/Fat Hong Kong classics for decades, but they've never been able to quite do it. Hard Boiled is a film that literally could never be made in the west because no insurer would ever underwrite the thing. So many injuries... But they made it in Hong Kong before the Chinese takeover for a few million with help from the real mob there. It's true guys like Michael Bay make films with lots of explosions, but Wu made films where the ACTORS exploded. Literally every piece of furniture and every actor in these shots is rigged with enough squibs to do serious harm. There's open flame everywhere, things blowing up and shrapnel flying. And not a drop of it is CGI.

For some reason the thing is impossible to find on DVD now, but here's some Youtube clips.

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNSZkOtvX7s&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d-IBkSfWyM&mode=related&search=


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLXFxGqqsfU&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAg5SXD-oE4&mode=related&search=

While the movie is apparently still mired in copyright conflicts, they're coming out with a video game based on the film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl26JqGGGMc&mode=related&search=

A close runner up is the earlier shootout from "The Killer," but it has stronger romance elements and is closer to the original crime soap operas that spawned "Hard Boiled"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf2Htu83Zoc

 

[Black Majik]

Black Hawk Down. Whole movie was one big shootout scene.

 

[strat81]

It's 100% unrealistic but The Matrix gets my vote, specifically the Lobby Scene.

"Guns. Lots of guns."

 

[Texas Colt]

Crossfire Trail... gotta love that 1876 Winchester.

 

[pablo45]

any 24 episode or bad boys 2.

 

[Don Lu]

almost forgot....this movie had some sexy guns, and each gun really fit their characters part "the Quick and the Dead"

 

[daysleeprx]

Hard Boiled.

Right on!

 

[soutex50]

Heat
Way of the Gun
Ronin
Replacement killers

 

[GreenFurniture]

Thief

Ah, yes. A great movie.

 

[los]

Open Range
Tombstone
Shane
The Outlaw Josie Wales
Unforgiven

 

[Stachie]

HEAT! HEAT! HEAT!!!

 

[JD_LION]

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Any time you have FOUR Glock 18's firing simultaneously gets my vote

Transporter 2 has the girl in the lingerie with 2 Glock 18's. That's a good shootout also.

 

[Blue .45]

Unrealistic but fun, Last Man Standing, with Bruce Willis. 3000 Miles to Graceland wasn't bad. Of course, Heat and Ronin are the best!

 

[RNB65]

The Matrix. Love the move, love the guns.

Favorite Matrix quote:

Tank: "So what do you need? Besides a miracle."
Neo: "Guns. Lots of guns."

 

[Mal H]

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned "L.A. Confidential". The motel shootout scene was very realistic with the gun handling.

 

[Redneck with a 40]

Hard target with Jean Claude VanDamme.

 

[SoCalShooter]

WAY OF THE GUN!!!

A man who knows his movies!!

 

[DKSuddeth]

the beach landing in Saving Private Ryan, all the way up until they secured the trenches and bunkers.