Best firefight in a film?

Obviously there are a good number of choices, so I will try and list as many as I can think of.

fire·fight
n. An exchange of gunfire, as between infantry units.

I was obsessing on War movies and Heat that I forgot the Matrix! :o

"I forgot because the last 2 movies sucked."

I don't hate the Matrix sequals.....

I mean - I prefer the original as a stand-alone film; but the last two have some good eye candy and the final fight the third film gave me true hope for a film version of The Death of Superman (Superman and Doomsday duking it out in downtown Metropolis, detonating the windows for ten blocks when they puch each other. /drool)

The Matrix series is probably the best sci-fi trilogy ever made. If you put it in THAT context, as opposed to simply being a "normal movie", you come away with a much better feeling. I liked 2 and 3 also, by the way. The ending was a little cheesy, but really, with something like this, it'd have been really hard to finish it off well.

Excellent firefight scene

Good call

Forget the specifics of the realities of the translation between fact and film - the combat scenes are fantastic. That movie prevented me from quitting smoking when I first saw it. That's how on edge it had me.

Oh, wait, you said firefight, not firefighters scene.
Oops.
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Been a while since I saw Ronin.

I could have also mentioned the finale of "The Professional"; I am thinking of a lot more now that I already created the poll! :o

I brain-locked trying to think about the sheer number of awesome gunfights in film.

the scene where they're exiting the bank.

One of John Woo's early films. Good grief they chewed up a lot of gunpowder.

hard to top that one, except the Python version with the group of tennis players.

Recent Japanese flick. Premise: Future distopia. Japan has 27% unemployment. Social structure has collapsed. Youth no longer respects anything. So for whatever reason it is determined to take one 9th grade class a year and stick them on an island. 3 days later they will take the one survivor off the island and let them go.

This movie is making a lot of waves in Japan. It has a lot of people running around with a lot of different weapons. Very interesting stuff if a bit particular to Japanese culture.

Reservoir Dogs - The mexican standoff at the end that ends with everyone dead.

The Way of the Gun - The big finale at the end that's pretty much a bloody recreation of Butch & Sundance's demise.

Terminator 2 - When the cops storm the Cyberdyne building and Arnold is standing at the window with a grenade launcher and a mini-gun.

Star Wars - The escape from the Death Star.

Raiders of the Lost Ark - The bar fight in Nepal. (Not really a firefight, but there are guns fired.)

Face/Off - Pretty much the whole damn movie.

Aliens - Again, almost the whole movie.

Boogie Nights - The scene at Doc Ock's house with the firecrackers and the "Sister Christian" song.

There are tons more awesome scenes that I'm forgetting, but these are the ones that come to mind.

The other movies don't deserve to be on the list when compared to Hard Boiled. See Chow Yun Fat blow away countless numbers of gangsters holed up in the basement of a hospital.

EOM

the D-Day assault.