Mine is the robbery shootout from Heat which is a edge of the seat stuff.

Anything to top it?

saw your thread title and was going to post … Heat, so a +1 for your choice.

+1 Andy McNab was a consultant on it.

+1 for heat

I would have gone for Heat as well as a matter of fact, but in the interests of variety how about the last fight in LA Confidential?

actually must give an honourable mention to Jean Reno in Leon (especially the extended version with the 'training'/grenades scene)

Much repeated but, when it first came out, the 'guns, lots of guns' scene from the Matrix!

Pekinpahs end to The Wild Bunch.

saw your thread title and was going to post … Heat, so a +1 for your choice.

Same here!

horseback/ jeep chase from Raiders of the Lost Arc

car chase from French Connection

final "one shot" steadycam pursuit through Grand Central Station in Carlito's Way

Not just me then . Watched it last night and it really is brilliant.

oooh and the chase through the houses in Point Break

Of course, it lacks variety.

The battle at the end of Pirates of the Caribbean 3, where they're having a sword fight, while swinging off ropes, on board two ships that are grappled together, spinning around in an enormous whirlpool, in a huge thunderstorm, being attacked by seamonsters and some of the people fighting are the risen dead and some of them are made of wood and covered in barnacles and bits of lobster and there's Kiera Knightley with her perky little bosoms all strapped up.

Actually, sod it. A load of blokes shooting at one another from behind cars? Heat's lame. 🙂

I would agree with that shootout scene from Heat. It was choreographed by ex SAS guys.

Others I like:

1. The beach landing in Saving Private Ryan
2. The casino fight in District 13
3. The marketplace chase in Bourne Ultimatum
4. The forest shootout in Public Enemies (similar to Heat)
5. The long un-edited sequence (Hastings I think) from Children of Men
6. Opening sequence from Wild Bunch

fight between Peter Griffin and the chicken!

The Heat bank heist is pretty epic, but for me the unrivalled king of action scenes has to be the section from the Lobby Scene to the Helicopter Crash in The Matrix.

That said, the Waterloo scene from Bourne 3 with Paddy Considine is also real edge of the seat stuff. Though probably more 'thriller' than outright action.

EDIT: Sorry, just read this

fight between Peter Griffin and the chicken!

and totally agree – disregard everything I and everyone else just said.

I can't disagree with BigDummy on this one myself.

for shear length and insanity the final hospital shootout in John Woo's Hard Boiled is good – as is a long scene involving motorbikes in a warehouse

Damn, forgot about that lobby scene from The Matrix!

The car chase in Ronin is good.

MDB no it's not (posted my thread before seeing this).

Oh the Matrix though, the three scenes are the 'kung foo training", "the lobby" scene and the "subway fight" had a thing where I just watched these three scenes constantly (yes very sad).

Actually, the section from:

"hey man, there's this cop scoping for you – check it out"

to

"Okay, stop the bike, time out, stop the bike"

in Terminator 2 is also pretty epic.

Taken tends to tick most the boxes!

Taken tends to tick most the boxes!

I watched that for the first time last week. Brilliant. He punches some serious throat in that movie.

Just remembered Leon.

There's the bit where they raid his apartment (Gary Oldman is genius) and then the final epic sequence culminating when Leon blows himself up.

I bought the special edition of Equilibrium specifically because of the "jump to fight" feature. I could then spend hours watching the final gun kata fight scenes with the bloke from Rob Roy. Gun AND martial arts? Who would have though that such things would go together?

Oh, and the lobby scene from The Matrix.

And that scene from Heat.

Already mentioned but
Guns lotsa guns
or
EVERYONE!
That 2nd one is my all time fave film.
Prefer the sword fights from the first pirates film myself, 3rd was a bit ott.

Old School – the big charge in Laurence olivier's henry v – an awesome bit of filming, and of course no CGI to beef up the numbers etc. Might be an urban myth as i can'f find it on IMDB but i had heard that they just asked anyone who could ride a horse to turn up and at the time was the biggest ever filmed cavalry charge – oh and technicolor rocks for that sort of thing

Closely matched by the chariot scene in Ben Hur.

Modern Film – Although the film as a whole was shite, i liked the jedi battle in phantom menace

I recently watched Wolverine again and the opening title sequence has go to be one of the best ever, awesome!!

The big fight scene in Bravehart – "they shall never take our freedom!"

The Way of the Gun had some great shootouts.

Top Gun dogfights

also, what about the entire 'flea' sequence from Family Guy? The house gets infested with fleas or something and they call the local pest control. its like an entire action film in 30 seconds.

Amazing live-action, plot-lite film is Ong-Bak;

One foot-chase sequence where Tony Jaa runs full tilt at, then jumps feet forwards through, a circular bundle of barbed wire – top right in the picture above. Look it up on utube if you've not seen it.
(seriously bad storyline though; baddies steal goodies village-buddha statue, which leads to goodies crops failing, & young 'Ting' (Jaa) taking a trip to Bangkok & kicking the sh1t out of every baddie!)

"The Way of the Gun had some great shootouts" indeed and class and under-publicized film.
Lots of great scenes, one in particular where the 'old' fixer is dying (having been introduced whilst playing russian roulette) and his mate is lost as to what to do, the 'fixer' turn round "do you mind? I wanna be alone…"
(or something like that)

Best film action sequence of any kind

Nightowl and Silk Spectre going at it in The Watchmen. Best. Action. Ever.

😉

Or not…

the end bar scene in state of grace