Great Foot Chase Scenes?

[Olive]

The opening scene from Trainspotting. That's a good 'un.

 

[Nuclear Platypus]

Spike chasing the 'funky' guy chasing Ein in one of the early episodes of Cowboy Bebop.

Riggs chasing after the Chinese delivery guy in the last Lethal Weapon movie.

I know there's more than a few Jackie Chan one's I like such as one in Project A where Jackie and someone else are handcuffed together while being chased by the bad guys, Jackie trying to get away from more bad guys in Mr. Nice Guy, etc.

 

[Berandor]

Matrix, the rebels hunted by agents (Trinity in the beginning, rooftop chase!)

Knock-Off, the abysmal VanDamme feature, has a nice chase at the beginning (more like a race, actually, but still) when VD must pull a riksha through the streets of Hongkong. Narrow bends, cars driving across, and a cadre of goons that try to crash the riskha.

more as they come.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

A great chase scene that never was- Zombies chasing Shaun in "Shaun of the Dead." I really wish they'd shot that scene. The storyboards cracked me up.

 

[Berandor]

http://www.filmsite.org/moments_msc.html

Greatest Chase Scenes

 

[Frostmarrow]

The Crimson Rivers II. This contains is the most fantastic foot chase I've ever seen. The young police officer is absolutely relentless in his pursuit of a cult assassin/acrobat. I cannot begin to describe how cool it is.

The screen-play is made by Luc Besson and a few years earlier he made a documentary about a new sport of sorts that has sprung up in Paris. Kids who jump around like skateboardes (on foot) in the inner city and on roofs. The sport even has a cool sounding french name but I can't for the life of me remeber it. Anyone care to help?

Oh and the point is: I think one of the kids from that movie is the cult assassin in the Crimson Rivers II.

 

[Frostmarrow]

Got it! The sport is called Le Parkour and the Prêtre tueur (Priest killer) was played by Cyril Raffaelli (one of the pioneers of Le Parkour).

He's been seen a lot apparantly. Check out IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0706220/

 

[Berandor]

The Crimson Rivers II. This contains is the most fantastic foot chase I've ever seen. The young police officer is absolutely relentless in his pursuit of a cult assassin/acrobat. I cannot begin to describe how cool it is.

The screen-play is made by Luc Besson and a few years earlier he made a documentary about a new sport of sorts that has sprung up in Paris. Kids who jump around like skateboardes (on foot) in the inner city and on roofs. The sport even has a cool sounding french name but I can't for the life of me remeber it. Anyone care to help?

Oh and the point is: I think one of the kids from that movie is the cult assassin in the Crimson Rivers II.

Yamakazi?

(Looks at imdb) Yes: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267129/

That had cool stunts in it, might be a good inspiration even if not directly chase-related. The way they jumped and vaulted could be applied to chases, surely.

Edit: Yamakazi is a movie about this sport, whereas the other film seems to be a documentary. Yamakazi's not a very good movie, however. And the chase from Crimson Rivers II was great, exciting, and plain cool! You should definitely look at it.

 

[Fast Learner]

There aren't any cool stunts in it, but the single most powerfully emotional and moving foot chase I've ever seen is when Jack Nicholson's character is chasing David Morse's in The Crossing Guard. You have to see the movie to fully understand, but it's an amazing chase where the guy being chased almost wants to be caught, or maybe he doesn't, or maybe he does. Even he probably doesn't kow. And it's quite realistic, and most people can't run for ages and ages without becoming exhausted.

But it's probably not the kind of thing you're looking for.

 

[Klaus]

Thanks, Krieg! Yes, that's The French Connection.