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Drive It Like You Stole It: The most ridiculous car chases in cinema history

Bullitt.

The French Connection.

Ronin.

All classic car chases, sure to fill out every single list ranking those scenes on the internet. This list doesn’t have a single one of those movies on it. Why? Because they’re not ridiculous enough. Sure, they’re great and all, but this is the week The Fate of the Furious hits theaters, and you mean to tell us that people go and see those movies because the car chases are great? Well, sure, they are, but they’re also absolutely stone-cold crazy (that bank robbery in Fast Five would have made this list if we weren’t banning all of those movies from it because it would be nothing but clips from that franchise), and last we checked, people weren’t writing about how well-shot the Siberian sequence in F8 is, they were writing about it because The Rock punches a goddamn torpedo out of his car’s way. So here’s a list of eight incredibly ludicrous and fun chase/car scenes for your entertainment.

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Sabotage (2014)

This David Ayer-directed movie about a group of horribly corrupt DEA agents killing each other for blood money is destined to become a staple of the midnight movie circuit in ten years, and this car chase partially shows why. It starts off pretty generic, though it has a group of great actors in it (Schwarzenegger, Mireille Enos, Terrence Howard, Olivia Williams), but it gets real good right near the end, featuring enough careless carnage you’d think this was a damn Troma film. Maybe don’t watch this if you really want to see the movie, as this clip is packed full of spoilers, but feel free to enjoy this modern classic of a Schwarzenegger line on us (“Go to the gym, John,” being the best retort to an Arnie character ever, too).

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