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37 Of Film's Best Foot Chases
Catch them if you can...

Car chases are all well and good, but what really sorts the men from the boys is the good ol' fashioned foot chase, requiring up close and personal camerawork and actors that can, you know, run really well. So sit back in your comfortable chairs and marvel at 36 frantic foot chases, from Kung Fu Hustle to, well, you'll have to wait and see...

WORDS ALI PLUMB
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Kung Fu Hustle

Released: 2004
Director: Stephen Chow
Starring: Stephen Chow, Yuen Qiu

Kung Fu Hustle is essentially a live-action Road Runner cartoon with fewer Acme gadgets and more high-kicks to the face. This especially bonkers sequence shows “The Landlady of Pig Sty Alley” chasing after our hero, Sing, at breakneck speed while her legs spin round into a circle of dust. She’s also wearing flip-flops, which makes it all the more impressive, frankly.
 

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1 RE: Death Sentence?
Posted on Monday November 28, 2011, 15:34 by axeman
L: Kev2012 Where's the chase through the car park from this? Whatever you think about the film (for the record, I think it's pretty good), it's a fantastic sequence. as thinking the same thing - major oversight. As well as being very well constructed, very clever technically as the camera moves seemlessly from cranes to car park levels, in a single shot for the major part. Film was ok in the main - certainly worth a watch - but this sequence is better than quite a few on this list. Read More

2 Was getting worried......
Posted on Monday November 28, 2011, 09:12 by darkraven28
Because I thought that the one from Bad Boys wasn't going to be on here. Which would have been retarded as shit. Because we all know Empire loves to bash Michael Bay. And Bay, even though I'm a fan of certain works of his, does make it hard for people to defend him sometimes. About 40 percent of Pearl Harbor (basically, disc 2) and most of Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen (if you do a drinking game based on the widescreen aspect ratio changes in the forest battle or the pyramid scenes, you'll be dead before the scene is over; that isn't even to mention the fucking Twins) can't be defended in the slightest. But anyway, thanks for including Bad Boys. And Enemy Of The State also. Glad people haven't forgotten that film. Read More

3
Posted on Thursday November 24, 2011, 11:32 by nclowe
That Tom Cruise running montage is awesome. :D Read More

4
Posted on Wednesday November 23, 2011, 18:26 by pampoulos
my all-time favourite chase is from the opening scene of The Wanderers (ran to the sound of The Safaris' Wipeout - simply brilliant) Read More

5 Run Lola Run
Posted on Wednesday November 23, 2011, 10:33 by Ali Plumb
Is it actually a chase in Run Lola Run? With Apocalypto, that's a bit too on the nose -- Which section of the film would you pick? All of it? Some of it? -- but with Run Lola Run we're not sure it counts as it's not really a chase as such... Read More

6 Run Lola Run
Posted on Monday November 21, 2011, 23:23 by retrojam
or is that too "on the nose"? Read More

7
Posted on Monday November 21, 2011, 14:59 by alakabaz
LOTR: The Two Towers?????? Read More

8 Se7en!
Posted on Monday November 21, 2011, 09:22 by guysalisbury
Good shout people! I'm sure Minority report and MI3 should be on here too! Good list regardless. Read More

9 Chaser?
Posted on Monday November 21, 2011, 09:04 by LouisV
What about the two excellent, "running-out-of-breath" foot chases from the South Korean serial killer film, "The Chaser"? Read More

10
Posted on Monday November 21, 2011, 04:14 by nKutzler
Are the lists even ranked? it seems like the end of the list (with Point Break) may be top picks "The king of all foot chases" Read More

11 RE:
Posted on Sunday November 20, 2011, 21:58 by JIm R
Point Break not in top ten, list invalid. Read More

12
Posted on Sunday November 20, 2011, 20:51 by BlackBaronUK
You might be pleased to hear Tony Jaa isn't in the monkhood any more - he was there for a year (some Thai men choose to do this. Sort of like military service in some other countries). He's now making Tom Yum Goong 2 with Jeeja Yanin from 'Chocolate'! Read More

13 Apocalypto
Posted on Sunday November 20, 2011, 15:57 by kierden
How could you forget apocalypto? Read More

14 Running Movie Montage
Posted on Saturday November 19, 2011, 23:07 by dm_imp
Check this if you like foot chases... It has dozens of movies and a lot of Tom Cruise, of couse! http://vimeo.com/4608750 Read More

15 What about....
Posted on Saturday November 19, 2011, 17:50 by DiscoNinja
What about Apocalypto?? I really thought that'd be on here. Read More

16 No Brick?
Posted on Saturday November 19, 2011, 15:04 by _Adamski_
I always though the foot chase in Brick, where Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets chased by a drug-dealer before tripping him into a lamp post, was pretty good. Read More

17 The Secret In Their Eyes
Posted on Saturday November 19, 2011, 14:14 by cobrakai
Wasn't there a brilliant chase inside the football stadium in this Argie masterpiece? I seem to recall their was, but was distracted by the incredible shot that preceeds it, with the camera sweeping in over Buenos Aires and into the stadium in the midst of a game. Read More

18
Posted on Saturday November 19, 2011, 14:06 by rams
No Tom Cruise movies?He does a lot of running in his movies(Minority Report,The Firm,Mission Impossible movies,etc).No Seven,Apocalypto,Death Sentence,Lethal weapon,Run Lola Run? Read More

19 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Posted on Saturday November 19, 2011, 13:55 by johnnyrox
....leatherface forest chase should be at number two at least? Read More

20 Where's the Cruiser!?!?!
Posted on Saturday November 19, 2011, 11:11 by DarthMaxxx
Where the hell is Tom Cruise in all of this? The man with the best run in Hollywood doesn't make your list, we could have had, Minority Report or Mission: Impossible 3 in there.... Read More

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