Great Foot Chase Scenes?

[dravot]

I was always fond of one scene in Memento:

"Why am I running? ... Maybe I'm chasing this guy..."

*Other guy shoots at him.*

"Maybe he's chasing me!"

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

What are the great foot chase scenes from cinema? Scenes where someone's running, somebody else is running, and they're running after some other guy, or something.

Great foot chases. Where are they, and what makes them great?

Texas Chainsaw Massacre - go, Leatherface, go!

I don't know; most of the other ones already mentioned are better. But it's damn creepy being chased by a chainsaw-wielding maniac after he's just disemboweled your paraplegic brother.

 

[FoolishFrost]

Everyone forgot about the 'final run' of Neo in the first Matrix movie? Nothing like running from beings that can take over any human near you, at will...

The knife-in-the-post-next-to-his-head part was my favorite...

 

[Storminator]

I was giong to say Memento, but somebody beat me to it.

So I'll toss in Raising Arizona. Fabulous chase scen after the convienence store rbbery.

PS

 

[Hopping Vampire]

ong bak

 

[ShinHakkaider]

There's a pretty awesome footchase with Mark Harmon in a movie called THE PRESIDIO. I don't remember many of the details but I do remember MarkHarmon chasing his suspect down a crowded sidewalk and seeing that he wont catch up to him via the sidewalk LEAPS onto the parked cars and begins to run on top of them in order to gain some ground.

 

[RichCsigs]

I love the chase scene at the end of The Peacemaker myself.

 

[Krieg]

So I'll toss in Raising Arizona. Fabulous chase scen after the convienence store rbbery.

Yep forgot about that one. Nice call indeed.

...and he still managed to pick up the pampers.

 

[mmadsen]

The sport is called Le Parkour...

You find a variety of mind-blowing parkour videos on-line, including at parkour.com:
Teaser
Nike (Chased by an Angry Chicken)
etc.

If you've played Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, these guys pull of those acrobatics for real.

 

[Tonguez]

Wow no one mentioned the start of 'Men in Black' when NYPD cop James Edwards (Will Smith) is chasing the bug

oh and lots of Jackie Chan stuff - there's one (forget which) in which he does a backward sommersault with a bicycle

And Le Pakour is amazing - lets see if it can become an Olympic Sport!