Top 10 Underrated Movie Car Chases
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Some movies can come and go and some are not worth remembering, but every now and again, a movie or two may present a car chase worth its weight in gold and can keep an underrated film going years after the rest of it is discarded.
MFP is proud to present Top 10 Underrated Movie Car Chases, based on its own opinion of film related vehicles subjects. The episode delves into discussing movie car chases that are under valued or never heard of, that might otherwise never get a mention or the respect they deserve for the effort and skill put into them along with now being a piece of history. Enjoy
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Condorman rules. The car chase blew me away as a kid. The reveal of the Condorcar is perfect, and the music by Henry Mancini is outstanding. The KGB theme is super intense and brooding. It does such a good job setting up the scene, only to be overtaken by the soaring Condorman theme. And not to be outdone, the movie also has a great boat chase for the finale.
Opndorman had a great score, great gadgets to. Those wings must have been terryfing to be dumped in the seine under
Yes i loved condorman too but Michael Crawfords American accent stank and i’m British.
Condorman was brilliant I loved it, childhood movies were the best
The KGB men driving the Porsche’s were known as the Prognoviach. Superb driver’s and each one was a dedicated killer.
I was never in my seat.
Condor Man...I saw this on the big screen. Great movie for kids, and adults. Back when Disney was a clean, imaginative organization. I was a boy who didn't know what he was getting into with this movie. So awesome. It starts out unremarkable, and the blows your mind with this James Bond/super hero hybrid. If Spy Hunter was a movie, this is it.
Condorman as film is underrated. Written smart with a good cast, and the bad guys are properly Disney-level-menacing as they get without being cheesy. Most of the gadget tech is pretty believable too as you know all the live-action effects were practical back then.
I'm stoked to see Condorman mentioned by anyone on TH-cam like this, it's a major nostalgic childhood treasure for me that I've discovered no one outside of my family remembers. Back in the early to mid-80s, in my circles anyway, anyone lucky enough to have a VCR only owned about 8 movies! Of those 8 maybe 2 were kid-friendly, so there were certain things we would watch over and over and over, and over again, and didn't get tired of them either, because everything else was commercial over the air and this "new idea" of controlling your own video playback was so glorious. Buying your own movies for home was very expensive then, the first release of Star Wars: A New Hope (pre-remastered of course) on VHS was $120. That'd be like $300 bucks for a Blue-ray now or something.
Anyway, enjoyed the video, thanks. 🙂
Cheers, glad you liked the video. Yes, it's a shame Condorman does not receive more love.
God I loved condor man. I watched it endlessly as a kid
"I have nothing to lose"
More badass phrase that can be mentioned in an action movie
*The Hidden* is exceptional, especially for its budget. One of my favorite films.
Condorman! **click**
Great soundtrack.
When I was a kid in the 80s/90s antenna TV would fill Saturday and Sunday afternoon slots with cheap movies. Condorman was played in a somewhat regular rotation - regular enough I was able to tape it on VHS. I never thought the movie had an identity crisis, I just figured it was a kid's version of James Bond.
Personally I liked it a lot as a kid. Would watch it over and over again on the tape I had. But being an Australian, I had no idea how bad MC American accent was. But still, I think it deserves more respect than it currently gets and should at least have a Blu Ray release.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions Disney won't give this movie any attention because it makes their current offerings look unoriginal and terribly written. Condorman is a balanced action flick that is more relatable and plausible than most Bond films - especially for young dweebs who would love to spy-simp on a mega hottie.
BTW, the DVD release is ever so slightly different than the old tape I copied off the TV. Thinking about this era of Disney from my childhood, I recalled the RV chase from Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)...which can be in an upcoming MFP video titled "Car chases in movies that shouldn't have car chases." LOL
No Man's Land is awesome. That was the first movie from the 80's that I ever saw (I was born in 2003), and it was a blast. So stylish, laid-back and real.
Make sure you catch Fear Is The Key as well that's mentioned here, it's a good movie, surprising end to it.
I saw "the sweeney" on cable tv, and I loved it! Not just because of the persecution. It's a real Macho Man vs. the World movie.
and yes: I saw "Condorman" when he was a kid, back then it didn't seem so bad 😄
I had a much more extended review on The Sweeny how it plays on how outdated Ray's character was played out in the movie and how they at least grounded the idea in reality and how sometimes we need people like him, but took up too much time. Yeah, I dug Condorman a lot too growing up.
I watched condorman 100 times when I was a kid it was my favorite movie with those flatness 911s
No Man's Land and The Hidden are both very decent movies, I dig them both, I'll have to check out a couple of the others.
This was when Disney was still making modern day Hallmark level character movies.
Herbie, Freaky Friday, Cat from Outer Space, etc etc.
Condorman was one I thought fun as a kid.
As an adult, it's like watching a favorite cartoon that gave a cringle level 2 reaction.
I had forgotten all about 'Condorman'. Damn you. Damn you to Heck, MFP! Sadly, I think I enjoyed it when I saw it...sort of...in a 17-year-old teenage kid kinda way.
Based on your list, I'm hunting down Blazing Magnum and Fear is the Key.
Ha ha, yeah, Condorman is one of those films you hate to love. Blazing Magnum just recently made it onto Blu Ray, but you will have more luck finding it under the title 'Strange Shadows in an Empty Room' or 'Shadows in an Empty Room' as I think it has like 5 different names all up. Fear is the Key is actually a good film on its own and has a unique storyline to it and keeps you interested how it's gonna play out throughout till the end.
I would have never watched this had I not seen the Condorman car in the thumbnail, and I was quite pleased it was followed up with The Hidden.... but really, No #1 should have been The Blues Brothers..
Thank you for the video, nicely done.
I saw Condorman in the theater. I have a dvd of it here. Great list i haven't heard of a couple of these.
I had completely forgotten Condor Man. I thought that car chase was awesome!! Thanks for the reminder.
Cheers.
Number 1 "Fear Is The Key" is a good movie, not just a B grade with a car chase. It has a surprising and thrilling end scene that is clever and unique and hasn't been seen in a movie before or since.
Thanks for mention Blazing Magnum. Always think, since the first time i watched it, the chase on it is way better than the one in Bullit. Perfect selection of movies.
Thank you.
Condorman an is ripe for a remake as a superhero comedy. It’s a shame it never got any real recognition as it was a fun little romp.
Only one problem with doing a remake - nobody at Disney knows how to make a good film anymore. They would completely ruin it - just look at what they have done with Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and the latest crop of Marvel films.
9 year-old me loved watching Condorman on VHS in the mid-80s.
Most of these movies I haven't seen....will need to check them out, thanks for bringing them back to the limelight
No problem.
I've often said the car chase in Children of Men when they are sneaking off the farm is incredibly underrated. Yes it is slow...so slow people running on foot are catching the car as it rolls in neutral down the road. Brilliant.
Totally agree with number one 'fear is the key' car chase is one of the best, film is a bit strange as it feels like two different films, the first bit is all action and the second more of an espionage film.
Fun fact went to the cinema to watch 'Condorman' as a child, many many years later it was on TV at Christmas time and i woke the kids to watch it, maybe i over hyped how good it was as they were not impressed even asking if they could go back to bed!!
Yeah, FITK is an odd movie, but I like the style of it. I can relate to the whole sharing a movie with younger people in your life with excitement, only too see how bored they are. I gave up after a few times trying.
Great to see these films getting the recognition they deserve (apart from The Sweeney which was dreadful throughout.) I remember being pretty shocked by the Ferrari destruction, particularly seeing pedestrians mown down.
Another car chase movie worth seeing is Freebie and The Bean.
too live and die in L.A. had a bad ass chase scene its overlooked quite alot
Yes, you will fibd it discussed in our "How to make a movie car chase" video on the channel. Enjoy.
Fear is the key ended in Mississippi. It was not too long after hurricane camille so there was still a lot of tree damage and desolate looking areas. This one my all time favorite chase scenes.
I loved Condorman as A kid.
the only thing I never liked about that "Condorman" chase scene was that they destroyed those 911s, my favorite car of all time 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Fun, underrated movie.
also.... that "Against All Odds" scene was actually a race scene and not a chase scene, still a great one
Cheers. Also, a race is always a chase if you are the one coming in second. ;)
Great job with the video, a lot of underrated hidden gems were given the spotlight. The car chase in Jade is definitely a standout because it feels like a 70's chase scene in a 90's thriller. Just goes to show that William Friedkin knew how to shoot great car chase sequences
Every time there's "underrated car chase" in the title I expecting the opening scene of Subway and the car chase of Le Professionnel, but every time I left disappointed.
Still love your content.🤗
Cheers. I saw and considered both chases, plus Le Marginal. I figure to save those for a potential 10 French film chases video. Time will tell.
Geez i love this channel!!!!!
Thanks a lot. Just wish I could make these videos faster with more frequency.
Friedkin's favorite movie is Sorcerer, which he mentioned on numerous occasions.
Honorable mention: The 51st State (Formula 51) 2001.
i don't recommend the full film with it's gore, diarrhea and weird sex scene but definitely check out the car chase!
If you want real life gore, then the film of the 1973(?) F1 season 'the quick and the dead' starts with a straight up clip of a marshal getting taken out at 120mph by an f1 car. NOT NICE BE WARNED
MkII Jaguars in The Sweeney.
3:36 Robbery is a great film (the Robbery is actually the Great Train Robbery) and I think 60s Jags capable of 130+ mph still put a lot of modern car chases to shame. 14:41 Fear is the Key is a great film with a great car chase and a jump that visibly made the car look like a banana.
Yeah, Robbery is a pretty impressive chase even today, but man did they go all out the following year. I was super impressed they kept the bent frame on the Gran Torino after the peer jump, most films ignore it when their cars bend that way obviously and then switch to a new car. Great chase indeed.
The 3.8 in the Jade Taurus should have been the second highest engine option below the SHO. The Yamaha 3.0 or 3.2 was smaller, but a lot more powerful.
And probably a lot more reliable - the Essex 3.8 of that era had horrible head gasket failure problems.
The main character in Fear is the Key looks like David Starsky from Starsky and Hutch. Also, they both drive a Gran Torino
Thanks
You're welcome.
Smashing choices cheers.
Thank you.
We owe it all to "Robbery" (GB 1967) although there is an interesting chase between a Bugatti with no brakes and an Hispano Suiza H6 in the silent film "Moulin Rouge" (GB 1928)
Wow nice job this is really cool to find out
Thank you very much.
MFP, do this list, top 80s supercar chases.
Eventually I probably will.
I have gone back to watch the remake of Get Carter and while correct it is not as good as the original, it is in no way a bad film. Give it a go if you get the chance.
The Blazing Magnum chase has its moments, but bogs down in the middle as it looks more like a demolition derby at times.
Nice to see Fear Is The Key at no1, that poor Gran Torino, do you think they used just the for the whole chase?
Great list! I would also add Short Time and Le Casse.
Cheers. Short Time is already discussed on our 'Top 10 WTF' video. Enjoy.
Blazing Magnum was filmed in Montreal Quebec, not Ontario 🙂
There should be an asterisk by the hp numbers on all these cars.
Especially the 308, lol.
I doubt Against All Odds chase down the freeway is under-rated. It's the one thing that film's known for other than Phil Collins title song. It isn't a particularly memorable film outside of Bridges/Woods involvement and Ward's biggest film after Sharky's Machine.
Blasing magnum chase is not in ontario. It was filmed in Montreal Quebec
The sts was fwd
No Gone in 60 seconds?, the original, not the Nicolas Cage one
It's not underrated.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions Can't believe you didn't cover Ronin either! 🤪
@@Dozenspeed Ronin is way more recognized than these car chases, and I have discussed it on other videos and hope to do a Brake Downs video specifically on that film in the future. Plus it's also best to save some films for the right video where it's better suited.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions Ronin has one of the best chases ever (though I could still nit-pick it) I was being cheeky regarding the original comment -sorry, I hoped the pseudo-Hitchhiker's Guide emoji would help indicate that. 😬
One question, what’s a Jagwaar?
It's an Aussie version of a car that never competed again a Ford Falcon GTHO V8.
iF YOU'RE GONNA DO A VIDEO RANKING CAR CHASES, MAYBE YOU OUGHTA SHOW THE CAR CHASES?
It's called copyright. Only a small portion of footage is permitted.
I’ll never understand why Michael Crawford was cast as Condorman, a virtual unknown to most audiences. I’m biased though, I hated Frank Spencer
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How could you not mention The Seven Ups?
It's not underrated, it's a classic and belongs on another list and will eventually be discussed.
The way this guy talks? Makes every sentence? Sound like it's a question?
not Jade
thanks for this video--it had to be difficult to keep it down to 10 movies. half of these i never heard of and will have to try to find 'em. i saw Condorman in the theatre, but didn't fall in love with Barbara Carrera until "Lone Wolf McQuade". Loved the remake of "Get Carter" even with the shaky cam effects.
Three car chases i enjoy--though i think they're pretty known by now:
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And barely any shots of the chases… snore.
Get Carter was horrible
A good body/fender man could easily buff and blend those Ferraris back to better than showroom condition. Also those 1972 Ford Grand Torino’s with the factory function ram air hood scoop, where very under rated lol. I was the second owner when we bought ours in California in 1983. It had the 351 Cleveland Cobra Jet engine ! I was stationed at the USMC
ElToro air base, at motor pool there was an older gentleman who was a gear head of the 60’s era ! Wow this guy hooked up some crazy wild stuff 😮 !!
Not sure how he did it, but he set up the car to exhale smoke 💨 during the daytime through the dual air ram hood scoop. Then at night he set it up so flames 🔥 would come out of the hood scoop ! His shop had switches, gages, cables, fire proof linings to protect the hood scoop, hood, engine, engine bay, etc, all under hood/ bonnet area ! This car was amazing to drive any way you wanted except going off road lol. If you put on the old fashion bias ply snow tires in the winter, forget about getting stuck ! With a half tank or more of gas, these (4) snow ❄️ tires, a full size spare in the trunk, (2) / (50lb) bags of salt/sad, I used one type of each, shovel and some common sense, this car did not get stuck in the snow !
Granted, this mini tank was not a rally car or a 4x4 vehicle but it was awesome to drive in all (4) seasons with the correct tires on it !! The only bad thing was this, a tow truck with the big rubber thick front bumper, slid on ice, hit the back end of our car, smashed it into a telephone pole, front end snapped the pole, it fell onto the Torinos hood & roof, bent the front end of the frame and the insurance company totaled it. We bought it with 40-45,000 miles on it, after this it had between 145-150,000 miles on it. Never did anything to it except oil change and tune ups. My wife at this time liked the color of it. Like a blonde/tan or gold color paint, matching her natural dirty blonde 👱♀️ hair lol.
Back in 1983 in the California desert, nobody around on those highways with nothing to hit either so to speak lol. We were only 19 years old back then with a so called “CHIPS” police officer with us so we could open her up at high speeds like a couple of idiots looking for a death wish out in the desert 🏜️ 😢. It was scary and back then seatbelts were optional on that car, since it was a Cali car, it only had a seat/lap belt ! The shoulder straps were optional and had to be connected manually yet separate too😮 Back then they had a two piece version of a seatbelt !! 😅 Very scary at high speeds ! The speedometer only went up to 120mph, some vehicle’s would go past the this mark and start hitting the odometer !!
Ours peaked at 120 but went past it to the white mile marker number lol.
A late 60’s corvette had pictures of these guys driving on the salt flats covering the odometer with the speedometer needle 😮whoa ! 😮 now that was super crazy fast back then. It ended at 160mph, but his pictures had that yellow needle between the 160 and the (H) mark. Those two guys were 100% certifiable nuts, and belong in a loony bin lol.
However, after all these years, looking back at our 120 mark being passed, I should have been on the same bus ride only on a different seat and back. Lol my dumb ass is lucky to be alive especially with the technology back then in the 60s and 80s!! At that speed the car is wearing you for protection. Yes, it was crazy fun but never again with those old cars unless it has been totally modernized with all the safety features that keep it on the road nice, tight and safe with high tech braking systems, modern sticky wide tires, anti lock brakes, traction control and schooling on the correct way to drive at those high speeds correctly.
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All we care about are the chases. You spent way too much time explaining the movie plots.
One of the biggest problems with movies that are "underrated" or "forgotten" is there is very little story out there known. In instances such as Condorman, there was next to no interviews or stories told of who built the car, how long the chase took or what happened to the car afterwards. In these films where the chase is an action piece and not what the whole film is about, no one cared enough to document what really happened. However, the setup is sometimes just as important as the pay off.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions I disagree with Joe, you talked about all 10 movies in under 2 minutes average. I found the pacing and balance of backstory perfectly satisfactory. 🙂
@@Dozenspeed Thank you. Though I understand what Joe is referring to and admit it would be nice to add more detail when needed or available. Some listed films need more detail to the plot to set up the situation.
Have you ever watched the Hy Ryders?? Great movie and fabulous 60s and 70s models cars in it
No I have not, but I will check it out. Cheers.