the irony of a series built on car chases, being fast and furious having the worst car chases in cinema is heavy

Dom in F&F1: *sees 2 police cars* 😲 Dom in F&F8: *jumps over a submarine to avoid a missle* 😐

The original 1979 Mad Max car chase is absolutely one of the best - it looked dangerous because it generally was. But it’s Miller’s choice of angles that covers it is what makes it truly iconic.

Baby Driver. Are we not going to talk about Baby Driver? Great video!

I think the Nick Fury car chase in the Winter Soldier was done very well, but I guess the tension of the moment also had a part to play in that scene as well.

I don't mind the Matrix sequels... but that Reloaded freeway chase is sublime. Watched that scene on its own probably over 100 times. Incredible.

Ronin has one of my favorite car chases in a movie. And don't forget Bullit! One of the most iconic car chases in all of film history!

Raid 2 car chase was the most visceral experience I had in a movie theatre!

I adore a good car chase. The Blues Brothers, The Raid 2 and The Batman had spectacular chases. I was even background on F&F6 and saw them film a chase using The Stig as a driver. That was a fun time. Its s shame they went the CGI route as the safe theft in Fast 5 is the best in the series.

For Your Eyes Only is a good example of how you can do comedy without undermining or sidelining the excitement of a car chase the way Spectre does. I know ppl kind of look down on For Your Eyes Only but the car chase with the Citroen 2CV is by far one of my favourites because it makes so much of so little, nowadays movies require the insanest stakes or settings to get any sort of tension, gadgets and explosions and many many cars and whatnot. For Your Eyes Only has just one clunky sturdy little car, immediately subverting the expectations by blowing up Bond’s fancy gadgety Lotus Esprit, and putting him smack-dab in the hilly quaint countryside of Spain, chased by two cars, and the entire chase just takes every single possible scenario, obstacle, opportunity that might arise out of such a limited setting and situation. It’s great how car chases back then were like clever plot-writing, they had to figure out the obstacles and issues that arise during a chase, and the smart problem-solving of our protagonist, showing his skill and cunning. Not by just shooting a gun, not by just having a bigger fucking car or driving faster or tougher, no by being SMART.

uh, Bullitt? Steve McQueen doing his own driving, the amazing light jazz score by Lalo Schifrin that stops when the action really gets going, the absolute sense of speed, velocity, and big American muscle cars? The incredible style? The analogue grittiness contrasted with the sleek surfaces of the cars themselves?

Great example of good and bad car chases. These days, the Fast and Furious installments resembles a Looney Toons Cartoon more than an action movie. The Matrix reloaded was not nearly as good as the first movie, but that incredible freeway chase helps me forgive many of its shortcomings.

Extraction 1 Chase scene is the most memorable to me. The decision to make the whole sequence look like it's just one shot was genius

Tomorrow Never Dies might have the best car chase in recent Bond history. It just sparks joy to see James using his new RC supercar like a kid in Christmas.

Gotta mention of H.B. Halicki’s Gone in 60 seconds. Arguably one of the most raw and real car chases in film history, since it was practically all filmed without the correct permits on public roads with regular people as extras. as well as being one of the longest chases in film history

Some other great chases are Mission Impossible Rogue Nation (car chase and bike chase), Mission impossible Fallout (bike chase), Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning, Jack Reacher (first movie), and Quantum of Solace's opening.

"Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" "The Junkman" "Vanishing Point " "The Diver". Some of my favorites that get depressingly overlooked.

I can't imagine the latest Fast and Furious movies having good car chases

I would like to add Speed Racer. Purely CG made, but great within the context of the movie. IMHO, the final race was absolutely superb in various aspects.

I saw clips from the car chase in Ronin (a personal fave of mine), and I was reminded of what Johnathan Pryce said of it. “People say I looked terrified in that scene. I was. I was holding on for dear life.” And that’s another element that’s needed. Put the performer in the actual vehicle, obviously safely but in a way that makes the moment real. Stone faced driving makes me nervous, as though the person had a death wish and I’m trapped. I feel better if the driver or rider on screen is tense or scared a bit. And yes, the Matrix does have the best car chase ever. And Mad Max Fury Road has a special place for me as I saw it in the theatre and I could tell immediately what I saw on screen was actually what was filmed. Practical effects almost always triumph.

The Fast and Furious Franchise has become a cartoon show.

The car / motorcycle chase in Paris in Mission Impossible Fallout is up there for me.

I can't leave this thread empty of any mention of the chase scene on the speeder bikes in Return of the Jedi. That was just so much fun. And Terminator 3, too, with the construction crane.

Duel (1971) has one of the best car chases for me, the entire movie is surrounded by it, but Spielberg's knowledge makes it extremely fun and engaging to watch

The penguin and Batman chase from the “The Batman” was one of the if not the bast car chase scene I’ve watched

I was going to say the French Connection’s chase is one of the very best, and was delighted to see you mention it immediately!

The Bourne movies and Baby Driver have my absolute favorite car chases in movies. I love it when movies use matching audio from the cars they're using. Its nice to see a Subaru and hear that iconic EJ Boxer sound with equal length headers. Nothing takes me out of it more than when i see a car thats supposed to be an Inline 6, and they've overdubbed a V8 in post. Even in the first Fast & Furious chase scene, Brians green Eclipse does not have the sound of a 4G63.

Fun video 👌 I was hoping you’d spend just a little longer on the Ronin car chase, which to me is world-class. That was probably the one car chase that had me literally on the edge of my seat for the whole time!

Mission impossible 5 bike chase was NUTS!

I love the final chase scenes in Deathproof! I was on the edge of my seat when Zoe Bell's character is on the hood of the challenger while Stuntman Mike tries to knock her off by slamming their car repeatedly! So intense!

Even the car chases in Blues Brothers are better than today's Fast and Furious

One really good example of a well constructed and incredibly surprising car chase is the one in Nightcrawler. It's brief, visceral and perfectly edited.

To me, it's about editing and the shots the editor has to work with. Having fast cuts is a double edges sword and could be effective if done right. Like Mad Max, or even before that, car chases in The Bourne Trilogy.

My personal Top 5 car chase scenes (in order): French Connection (1971), Bullitt (1968), Ronin (1998), The Bourne Identity (2002), The Transporter (2002)

0:51 The best car chase scene in this video.

The Road Warrior.....Ronin...French Connection....To Live and Die in L.A.....Blues Brothers......these are the best in movie history. They were not only expertly filmed, executed, but they also had reason and drover (no pun intended) the story forward. As far as I know no CGI on either of them as well.....

The matrix reloaded's action set pieces are amazing. The chateau fight and the highway set piece outclass nearly every action movie this decade. The camera work, choreography and soundtrack is immaculate. Most of all everything has style, and there is a natural build up and release of tension.

The Batman car chase scene were also iconic too

I still remember the RC car chasing Harry Callahan around the streets of San Francisco in The Deadpool. I loved that movie. I loved that scene.

A fantastic chase rarely talked about is the beginning of Beverly Hills Cop 1. That semi does some scary stuff.

Some fantastic films on your list, Ronin however, is the love letter to car chase films. Love your content.

Honestly, peak car chases are from The Blues Brothers. If you ever want to do a follow-up on this video, it could be interesting to look at that film :)

LMAO that scene from Austin Powers will forever be hilarious

4:55 Man that cut to the Mad Max chase scene gave me goosebumps dude.

The original Gone in Sixty Seconds car chase was epic 🤘 Great video Marcus, thank you .

what about the Blues Brothers? one of the most classic car chases

One to add to future episodes - the car chases from the original French film, "Taxi" (1998). Of course it's sequels would go on to devolve into silliness (which is fine in terms of the universe it occupies) but the first film has some great, visceral chases - especially the final chase scene between the police (in said Taxi) and the bank robbers which is inverted because the robbers are chasing the police... Some amazing camera work in that one, and completely practically shot too. The rigs they used are quite impressive.

Terminator 3 has one of my favorite car chases ever, with the crane and the remote controled emergency cars, and it was made almost in its entirely without CGI!

No "taxi' car chases ? Disappointed!

Another great, visceral car chase was in To Live And Die In L.A.!

I’m surprised no one is mentioning The Italian Job (1969)! The car chase with the minis and the bus is so fun to watch, can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched it!

The car and train chase is something I experienced in DRIVER 2 from ps1. it's cool to know where it got it's inspiration

The Matrix sequels get a bad rap but the freeway chase is PERFECTION. I don't care what anyone says. Opinions matter not here. This is fact

Not having any of the Baby Driver chase scenes in here is a crime

The most fun I've had watching a car chase scene was both of the most recent Mission Impossibles. Incredible stuff right there.

how did you forget the blues brothers car chase finale!

You gotta watch some older car chase movies. You can't talk about bad car chases vs good car chases and not show The Blues Brothers, Smokey and the Bandit, Gone in 60 Seconds, Vanishing Point, Death Proof, To Live & Die in LA, etc.

The MI franchise car and bike chases are also very well done! With high stakes and practical stunts!

Yesterday, I noticed Ronin was on Prime and watched it once again. Such a good movie. From McGuffin to acting to car chases, story. Almost 30 years old yet still feels so fresh.

That shot of Keanu Reeves talking about the drivers for the scene. Cracks me up 😂😂😂

Great video! "Fast food filmmaking" is a perfect way to put it, and it has definitely been the bane of movie making since the over reliance of CGI. I gotta say though.. as a big lover of practical effects and an even bigger hater of CGI, I still a die F&F fan. I get that they are super unrealistic at this point, but I feel like they perfectly walk the line of taking themselves seriously and not taking themselves seriously, which most movies coughMARVELcough fail miserably at. I think it's mostly due to all the actor's chemistry with each other, and aside from a couple people (looking at you, Rock "The Dwayne" Johnson) you can really tell that everyone genuinely enjoys being with each other. Last thing: a really fun movie that is about 80% car chase is the original 1974 Gone in Sixty Seconds. It's full of insane stunt driving including a devastating UNSCRIPTED car crash that was kept in the film.

Thank you for giving the car chase from Matrix Reloaded the credit it deserves. I agree that it's the best one there is. I saw it in the cinema when it was first released and it was mind-blowing, despite the rest of the film being a bit of a snooze.

Excellent analysis! Love the 'fast food film-making' comment. When you said visceral car chase, I immediately thought of Nick Fury vs the Hydra agents posing as cops in Captain America: Winter Soldier.

The TENET Truck scene is today’s Reloaded

Not gone lie Bad Boys 2 and Terminator 3 have some of most underrated car chases of all time

Yeah, I think the worst thing an action film can do is create all the "meat and potatoes" of a car chase in post-production.

Three of the best that come to mind in no particular order... Bullitt, The Spy Who Loved Me, Death Proof

Death Proof is the result of Tarantino growing tired of CG car chases.

A few of my favourites: Bullit (1968) Driver (1978) We Own the Night (2007) Vanishing Point (1971) Thelma and Louise (1991) - though it has some of that 90's cheese.

Being a car guy, what I hate most about car chase scenes in some movies is the protagonist having a fast powerful car and the regular cop cars or antagonist's regular car keeping up with him. That just wouldn't happen. Once you floor it, you would lose them and see ya later.

Going back to the classic film Drive from 2011, that was a visceral car chase/movie. It was beautiful

After seeing the Spectre car 'chase' scene I went back and watched the opening car chase scene to Quantum Solace and it's night and day. The editing is clunky with too many cuts, but it's fast, feels real, we see Bond who, like you said, is a calm and cool character actually looking like he's in trouble, no reality bending gadgets, just guns, driving ability and also luck, the environment in a narrow tunnel with traffic & police being both a benefit and also a hindrance.

Talking about something else, I believe you've described perfectly why I love playing GTA IV (yes, FOUR!) with my Logitech G29, albeit it has to be modded for the wheel to work ingame. I ADORE zooming around Liberty City just like in the movie Ronin while being chased by the police: it's beautifully visceral, especially playing from the point of view of Niko while driving and using TrackIR. Yes, it's an "old" game (prolly 15 years old now!), but having it modded, it makes you feel like you're driving in Ronin's car chases. To me, at least. Thanks! xD

I think the lotus / helicopter chase in Spy Who Loved Me is an underrated gem Having a real car and helicopter pass within feet of each other and clever camera angles to capture the movement give the visceral quality you highlighted AND it has humour without resorting to pure ridiculousness, up to and including the car changing into a submarine to finish ( mainly because it starts as a real car and finishes as a real submarine )

That bridge scene in F9 really had me at a loss for words. 💀 My best friend and I found ourselves laughing hysterically trying to make sense of what we witness.

7:43 Thank you! Matrix Reloaded is best action film ever!

In 2024 car chases in today's films are dead. Last one I remember being so good was the Cuda scene in John Wick 4. It's a lost art now. All time favs are Duel, Bullitt, White Lightning, Seven Ups, Blues Brothers, Gone in 60 Seconds (both versions), The Driver, Road Warrior, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Terminator 1 & 2, Tomorrow Never Dies, Short Time, Black Dog, Ronin, Raid 2, Bourne trilogy, Drive and Baby Driver. Many more!!!

I've figured out the F&F franchise progression. It's literally GTA V online. The moment submersible cars and jet bikes with missile launchers arrived, it all went to hell.

Baby Driver introductory scene was sublime

There’s something about the sound of a revving car engine that just makes the whole experience visceral. One recent one I can think of is the chase from The Batman. That was so epic. Not much of a chase compared to other sequences from other films but the feeling a regular looking car that’s pimped up just enough to make it believable and unbelievable sound design just made the whole scene feel so awesome and visceral.

One of the best car chases no one ever talks about is from the first Jack reacher movie. No cgi just a raw big block chevelle car chase. Gives me goosebumps every time I watch it.

Great video, i love the chase in The Matrix Reloaded but over the years have felt that the chase in Bad Boys 2 (both out in the same year) edges it slightly, just more visceral and overall carnage galore.

Some of my favorites that are not mentioned in the video are Drive, Nobody, Tokyo Drift 1st race, Mad Max, Gone in 60 seconds Eleanor chase, Taxi, Bullitt, The Batman. I love great car sounds and intense scenes

I want to give a shoutout to the Dukes of Hazzard movie from 2005. The second half of the movie was essentially just one long interconnected car chase, and it was amazing.

I loved the opening scene in Baby Driver.

Great video, props. Always wanted to see a video like this. Similar to what makes a good fight scene.

when physics stop working, the car chase scene stops working too.

This is feels like one of those documentaries that they would show in schools in the early 90s

I'll be honest, the Penguin chase in The Batman 2022 was a pretty cool chase scene that sticks to my head to this day

I remember reading a Top Gear article on shooting the Spectre car chase back when the movie came out (and was absolutely everywhere). It was described as a really huge undertaking. Multiple streets closed in Rome, an Aston Martin prototype and a Jaguar movie double both made SPECIFICALLY FOR THE MOVIE (talk about an investment), the film crew describing the chase as "the most dramatic couple of minutes in car chases' history"... all for a malfunctioning car machine gun, bad slapstick moment with the old opera-loving man and ultimately crashing the car into the water after only a few minutes of screen time. A CAR MADE SOLELY FOR THE MOVIE THAT DISAPPEARS AFTER A COUPLE MINUTES. Yeah, the studio really knew how to spend the money.

Great video! Although I want to give Fast & Furious some credit. Justin Lin who directed most of the series always tried to do MOST things practical. The safe scene in F5 is obviously the best. They got a real tank in F6 which crushed real cars. While F9 does have a lot of CG stuff, they did go on location in a jungle and most explosions are real. I can appreciate both kinds of action, grounded and over the top. Not by Justin Lin, but in F8 (the first shot in this video), they actually flipped all of those cars for real and only the submarine is CG for obvious reasons. In F10, they actually had a burning ball rollling through Rome. Random action movies with chases I love: The Blues Brothers, The Transporter (not 3 - ruined by director Olivier Megaton who also ruined Taken 2 and 3 with shaky cam and seizure cuts), Mad Max series especially 2, Terminator 1+2, Speed from 1994, Lethal Weapon series, The Raid 2, John Wick series, Bad Boys 2, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung movies (underappreciated car stunts, not just fights), Con Air, Die Hard 4, The Rock from Michael bay, Breakdown with Kurt Russell. It may be hard for you to watch this somewhere, but the german TV crime series "Alarm für Cobra 11" which started in 1996 and is still going with over 300 episodes, has some of the best car chases/crashes I've seen and it's just a TV show! They won several Taurus World Stunt Awards. Every episode usually has 3 action scenes, mostly with cars. In the last 28 years they've also made over 20 feature length films with a higher budget and you can see it on screen. Since 2005 or so, they've built their own freeway because closing off real freeways got too expensive. You can find some compilations on KZfaq "Cobra 11 crash mix"

I've seen no mention of the To Live and Die in L.A. car chase. Truly epic! Also directed by the late great William Friedkin.

Good video, however one of my best mates looked after the villain’s Jags for the Spectre car chase in Rome. It took that second unit team 6 weeks to shoot the sequence, and he was there for every night’s shooting, overseeing maintenance for the 6 cars they used. So they still do invest the resources to shoot car chases, at least on big budget sets…

9:12 I thought this guy was British based on the accent! Lol was surprised 😂 nice vid Mad Max was a gem

Taxi 2 Paris chase, comedy film pretty much all around but i can say that shots of driving in crowd or through main road, car squezzing through traffic is something i had stuck in my head.

The opening chase of Mad Max is one of my all time favourites.

car chases in commonly busy metropolitan streets like they're in rural ohio are pet peeve of mine 😂

Fun fact: in the opening shot, from F8, it is an actual explosion tossing those 3 trucks into the air.

No seat belt how tf?! The matrix team need to fix our pot hole problem 🕳️😂

I used to write action stories and always tried to make the action as over-the-top as possible, but still somewhat believable. That scene from F9 with the car flying around like it was Spider-Man was too absurd even for me. Didn't believe a second of it. The only thing missing was a laugh track. I guess the problem with long-running action series is that they always have to try and top what came before, and the first casualty is usually realism.