I Love Movie Shootouts ... And Heres The Best Ones

T2 has some great shooting moments. Robert Patrick with his Beretta no flinching and he always keeps his eyes open. His reloads are really good. Arnie also takes mags off his victims. Empty mags get reloaded on screen! For the most part actors seem to aim their weapons... :eek: and this was in 91!
 
The Replacment Killers with Chow Yun Fat and Mira Sorvino has some good gunplay, not always realistic but good none the less.

Other wise I gotta say +1 on Heat.
 
Putting over the top movie shootouts aside - to me - the best and probably the most accurate/real shoot out was in the movie "Open Range". Yah - there were some slip ups but it was pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq3zjTmVLbM just Part 1 shown here....

Yep.

As far as over the top shoot out? Yah "Heat" is ok - but nothing beats the GunKata scenes in "Equilibrium".
 
Hardly the best but I loved the dialogue and it was even on the radio. There was a radio drama in the late 1950s called "Yours truly, Johnny Dollar." (The man with the action packed expense account!). One episode ended with a short exchange of shots between a police detective who was with Dollar and the bad guy. After it was over, Dollar says, "Wow! I've never seen a faster shot except on television."

"That's where I learned it."
 
Slightly off topic, but I occasionally have dreams/nightmares of Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft in her thigh holsters.....
 
+1 On Open Range. Love the toe shot on the bad guy hiding in the doorway. And two barrels at once through the wall from Mr. Duvall for the fella sneaking down the alley is priceless.
 
Without a doubt, HEAT has one of the greatest onscreen shootouts ever filmed. I also like most of the others that have already been mentioned in this thread.

I thought I was going to be the first to mention the shootout in OPEN RANGE, but I was slow off the starting line. ;) Anyway, it lasts 17 minutes...Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall battle it out with a rancher and his cronies.

I especially like the scene where one of the rancher's hands has Annette Bening around the neck, holding a gun to her head. Costner walks straight for him and shoots him dead with his Peacemaker.

I like this movie almost as much as UNFORGIVEN. But, I like just about any good Western.
 
Magnificent 7? Anyone?

In The Magnificent Seven (Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, et al). The tactical preparations in the town getting ready for the banditos, then the actual fight.

The opening "gunfight" in Silverado, shooting through walls and the roof of the shack while only guessing at where your adversary is.

Willie Nelson in Barbarosa as the title character when he shoots the first of his inlaws (on-screen), all out to kill him. He stands his ground and waits until his attacker is within (his) range and dispatches him with a single shot. While it is unrealistic for Barbarosa to have stood still, waiting to shoot until sure of a good shot seemed to me a good tactic given his knowledge of his adversary.

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Not a gunfight in the true sense, but one of my favorite gun scenes is from the first Indiana Jones when he is in the bazaar in Egypt, and the Bedouin is coming after him waiving his sword all around like a ninja showing off, and Indy just pulls out a gun and shoots him. I laugh every time i see that to this day LOL.

Always take a gun to a knife fight.
 
Always take a gun to a knife fight.

The scene in which Indy shoots the swordsman was not in the original script. Harrison Ford was supposed to use his whip to get the swords out of his attacker's hands, but the food poisoning he and the rest of the crew had made him too sick to perform the stunt.

After several unsuccessful tries, someone made the off-handed remark, "Why doesn't he just shoot him and get it done and over with?" Steven Spielberg immediately took up the idea and the scene was successfully filmed.

Still, its one of the best "gun fight" scenes done. :)
 
Best Shootout...

Hard Boiled has an amazing running shot/shoot out that is insane.

Heat's bank robbery is the best in my opinion.

Black Hawk Down ...the entire movie is basically a lead storm.

and not really a "shootout" so to speak but Collateral with Tom Cruise. The Korean club scene is just bad a$$.
 
I dont see it mentioned here but "man on fire" (denzel version) has a pretty good shoot out during the kidnapping scene.

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It makes me sad that no one has mentioned the Boondock Saints, the scene that they fall through the cieliing in the hotel and take out everyone whilst spinning in the air upside down. "Television. Television is the explanation for this - you see this in bad television" haha
 
The best one in recent memory is in "The Book of Eli" When they are in the house with the cannibals and the whole house gets shot to pieces...awesome.
 
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