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We all love an epic shoot-out. Even tree-hugging, incense burning pacifists. As long as that body count is the square root of the film's rating plus 50 then you know you're in for a good ride. Slo-mo, real-time, bullet-time, your-time, hammer-time. I don't care, as long as there's more lead in the air than at a marine rifle range then I am in.

Heat
I love this running street battle scene, the tension builds as the music judders on (which is notably absent once the shooting begins) and you're just sitting there waiting for some epic carnage to unfold. The bad guys think they've got away with it then Val spots the cops as the coach moves away. Fully-automatic mayhem ensues. The actors received 3 weeks of weapons and tactics training by former British SAS Sergeant turned author Andy McNab before filming began, it shows. And one of Val Kilmer's magazine changes is so awesome they now show it in training sessions for marines. Get some!

A Better Tomorrow II
An orgy of butchery and bloodshed unfolds the likes of which any cinematic scene had never seen. John Woo is the man when it comes to shoot-outs, and this is a 10 minute-long bad boy. I could've equally picked the teahouse or hospital shoot-out from Hard Boiled, or the beginning of The Killer, but this is less well known, so I'm spreading the love. It involves shotguns, machine guns, handguns, axes, samurai swords and grenades - how they got through it without a bit of the many pieces of flying debris ending up in their eye is anyone's guess. There's enough blood to start your own bank. Listen out for the completely out of place music, a standard in any early John Woo film. No one can juxtapose ultra-violent bloodletting and ridiculously sentimental music like The Woo Man can.

Wild Bunch
Old school style, these people probably got murdered for real knowing Peckinpah, which I didn't. I hope some creature died anyway. But who cares, this man was slowing down horrific gun-violence when John Woo was leaping out of his high chair clutching two baby rattles leaping through the air backwards trying to take out his nanny. And for that I salute him, by dementedly laughing while firing my .357 magnum into the air. Boom.

The Matrix
The lobby scene. No matter how much of a retarded toad Keanu Reeves is, he can't ruin this movie. It spawned a thousand imitations, but there can be only one The One, and that's Neo. And Trinity too (so that makes two?). Bullet time, backflips, kung-fu Trinity running up walls and kicking bad guys to the curb, while also 360ing their gun into her hands before shooting them in the back. No matter how many guys dressed in SWAT gear with pump actions you send, it's going to make f#ck all difference. Does it get better then this? Only if Chow Yung-Fat came diving through the air with double pistols made from the bones of Steven Seagal, a trigger made from Chuck Norris's biceps and a handle made from Clint Eastwood's squinting eyes. Then it would be better.

Predator 2
Most people rate the jungle scene from the first movie where they blow ten tons of shit (and wood) out of a Guatemalan rainforest. But this scene is from the opening of Predator 2, when Danny 'I'm too old for this shit' Glover and his team attempt to take out the generic bad guys, but the Predator's got there first. If the jungle scene from Predator and this one had a shoot-out with each other, this one would win.

Equilibrium
I've chosen the end shoot-out, even though the Gun Kata scene is equally brilliant. The film's a Matrix rip-off, but so what. It's still awesome, and it involves Christian 'F#cksake man, you're an amateur' Baleman. Not sure about that all-white shoulder-padded suit though. Good luck getting the blood stains out of that. White suit or not, as that DOP found out, nobody f#cks with The Baleman.

Way of the Gun
This epic shoot-out at the end of the movie is all the better for its brutal realism. Not to say there's no place for balletic John Woo mayhem, but this makes the scene stand out for me. Throw in the great Benico Del Toro and the writer of The Usual Suspects as director and you have yourself a post-Tarantino bloodthirsty piece of human annihilation.

Terminator
Yeah I know, T2's got some pretty sh#t hot shoot-outs as well. Like when Arnie's on his bike reloading the shotgun with one hand, and the highway chase scene which starts in the Cyberdyne Systems building. They're pretty f#cking special, but nothing beats an evil Arnie taking out a station full of cops to get to SAR-AH C-O-N-N-O-R.

Hot Fuzz
It starts with Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) riding into town on a horse and having a fight in the market town with the old folk. Then it moves into a supermarket where they're holed up fighting, among others, "two blokes and a f#ck load of cutlery". Like Shaun of the Dead it's a homage that's just as good as the scenes it mimics. But it's full of fun, fruit attacks, pasta sauce and 'Caution: Wet Floor' signs being used as weapons. That's right, it's off the f#cking chain.

Unforgiven
"You'd be William Munny out of Missouri. Killer of women and children." When you hear that line, the chills start to run down the spine. It's a line only beaten by Squint Westwood's reply of, "That's right, I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawl at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you Little Bill, for what you did to Ned....You boys better move away" Yeah, f#cking right you better move away as well, goddamn you! Did someone say revisionist western? Of course you did, Clint beat everyone else to the draw with this one. Unforgiven? Possibly. Unforgettable? Definitely. You shouldn't have killed Ned you b#stards!

True Romance
Where would we be without a Tarantino shoot-out scene? We'd be lying to ourselves is where. What would we have become if we'd have forgotten this! Shame on us all. As it stands here it is, the stand-off at the end which ends in maximum deaths for pretty much all involved. "I like you Clarence...Always have, always will"

Rambo
Ah, John Rambo, the killer's killer. As every shoot-out list must contain a Tarantino, so must it also contain a Rambo. This is my choice. The end fight scene in movies, as shown, is often the most ridiculously overblown. And this one couldn't really get any more gruesome. I've never seen so many bodies ripped in half and heads exploding like ripe watermelons by injections of hot lead. The hostages are about to get it when suddenly you see Mr Rambo creep up behind the bad guy and then, great God, with the brutal swing of a machete, hell in all its horrific torment is unleashed. Thank Ares there's a fifth instalment on the way.

Honourable mention goes to the end scene in Grosse Point Blank, pow-pow-pow-popcorn! The Aliens "get some, get some" scene. Forget Ripley, Vasquez is the evil as acid-blood beeyatch from that movie. And Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4.0) where they go for the kid and McClane kicks the guy's gun then punches him THROUGH THE DOOR! THROUGH IT! If anyone disagrees with me then I'm gonna shoot a hole through their chest with a pump action shotgun, before launching a thermonuclear weapon into their ass hole, in bullet-time, while taking on a horde of cops. On with the body count. Bang bang, my baby shot me down...

Added: 319 days ago by Kevin Holmes | Posted in: Celebs | 10 Comments

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