Best Gunplay Scene Ever?

[Casey]

The final shoot out between Lam Ching-Ying and Austin Wai Tin-Chi is worth sitting through all the silliness that precedes it...or you can just fast forward.


Kiriyama, I love The Mission, particularly the shopping mall shoot out. One reviewer described this low-action scene as Zen-like. Perfect.

[SteelwireMantis]

When you are saying best gunplay scene ever, for me it has to be the intense bank robbery shoot-out in Michael Mann's 'Heat' (1995) ( oh no, I've mentioned a US movie for the best shoot out, thats gonna really tick the fanboys off, lol). I liked this scene very much as it uses gritty, NYPD Blue/documentary style handheld shots to emphasize realism and the sound effects are very high in impact (as with all of Mann's films).

My favourite shootout in a Hong Kong movie is still the teahouse scene in 'A Better Tomorrow', the camerawork, editing, sound and the cool charisma of Chow Yun-Fat executing almost everyone who was in the room with his trademark 2 colt .45 pistols and the long black overcoat. Classic, although I do enjoy the church shootout in The Killer, the shootout at the Saigon nightclub in Bullet in the Head and the (bald) head-to-head face-off between Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Lau Ching Wan in The Longest Nite, it was very dark and intense.

[MrBooth]

Some of the very best gunplay scenes of all time are found in Tsui Hark's TIME & TIDE... the first real Hard-Boiled beater?

I like the finale of FULL CONTACT - very different approach to gunplay from John Woo's, where every bullet is felt and counts. One of my favourite shootout/assassinations is Wong Kar Wai's tribute to Woo's ABT assassination in FALLEN ANGELS. The shootout at the beginning of Police story is good too, in a much more realistic style than most.

I'm trying to think of some recent Korean films with great shootouts... but drawing a blank. The Thai film GOODMAN TOWN had some pretty crazy gunplay - not with the slickness or skill of a John Woo film, but good fun

[magic-8]

You can't beat the opening tea house scene from Hard Boiled. It's in a class by itself. I also thought Leon Lai Mng did a great job in Fallen Angels as the hitman. The opening of Tiger Cage is also awesome as Johnny Wang Lung takes on the cops with two fisted .45s ablazing!

[wild9]

All the Gun-Fu from Equilibrium.

I want more of that!!!

[steve_cole1]

Hi
Best gunplay seen end of the Killer in the Church or the gunplay scene in ABT which is simple but Chow looks so cool as he kills all the hoods in the resturant its so good has been copied many times

[Casey]

Pom Pom and Hot Hot isn't an exceptionally exciting or original film, though there is a mahjong scene midway through that's good for a few laughs. Still, everythingseems mired in mediocrity until the film's climax, when the movie suddenly EXPLODES with the best action/gunplay ending outside of any John Woo movie. Seriously, the ending is totally amazing and features action that has rarely been equaled in Hong Kong history. Acrobatic action heroes, whizzing bullets, breathlessly choreographed gunplay, and a cinematic panache that's undeniably exciting make a winner of a Hong Kong movie. Watch for Lam Ching-Ying, who steals the show as the “gun virtuoso” captain. (Kozo 1995)

- http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/pom_pom_hot_hot.htm

This film has rightfully gained near legendary status for the amazing action filled finale in which Jacky Cheung, Lam Ching-ying and Stephen Tung battle it out with an array of bad guys. The last twenty minutes of the film is a feast of kung fu gunplay, spitting bullets, a fusillade of firepower, splattered bloody bodies, aerodynamic impossibilities and gut checking mano y mano face offs. Even after seeing more HK shoot outs than I can recall, this one had me on the razor’s edge of nervous delight. It is simply fabulous.

- http://brns.com/pages3/action59.html