Time is running out: These 9 time-chasing sequences from movies will give you goosebumps

Time chasing sequences in movies add to the thrilling experience that the viewers encounter by watching an action or a thriller movie. These scenes where a character is chased often involving a car or any kind of vehicle, or just physical action, make for spectacular moments in movies.

These time chasing sequences often includes the characters to run against time and survive the close calls. The scenes when the characters are pursued and are in a race against time to achieve their goal of running away or catching a culprit, add tension and thrilling excitement and sometimes, combined with a great background score, makes for an iconic chase sequence.

In this article, we have listed 9 time-chasing sequences from movies that will give you goosebumps.

Disclaimer: This article is based on the writer’s opinion. Readers’ discretion is advised.

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The 9 best time-chasing sequences from movies

9) The Dark Knight Rises

Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises has two of the best time-chasing sequences. One of these takes place in the movie after Batman returns to Gotham City after eight years and pursues Bane’s henchmen on his Batpod. However, as the GCPD finds out about Batman’s return, they chase Batman, who is already chasing Bane’s men, until Batman flies away from the GCPD’s reach using his Bat.

Another scene involves Christian Bale’s Batman and Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman pursuing Talia al Ghul’s truck that contains the bomb. The high speed chase involves Catwoman pursuing Talia using the Batpod and Batman usin the Bat as he is chased away by Talia’s missiles attacking him. The chase might make you hold your breath as it was a close call before Batman uses his ariel craft to carry the bomb away from the city.

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8) North by Northwest

In the Alfred Hitchcock movie North by Northwest, Cary Grant's Roger Thornhill is chased down by an airplane. The scene begins with Thornhill being dropped by a bus in a flat and empty field. He talks to a man who arrives after him in a green car but boards another bus.

After Thornhill is left alone again, he is chased by an airplane that starts shooting at him. Thornhill tries to run and hides in the field in an attempt to save himself, but the plane keeps chasing him. He is ultimately saved when the plane crashes into a truck beneath, which Thornhill hid during the attack.

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7) Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road has many chase sequences shot in the desert that give it an intense backdrop that adds to the nail-biting scenes.

In this specific scene, when Max, Furiosa, and her group are going back to Cutadel, Joe and his people begin to pursue them. The high-octane chase sequence results in several casualties, including Furiosa getting injured. However, through many difficulties and Nux’s sacrifice, the group, or what’s left of them reaches the Citadel.

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6) The French Connection

In one of Gene Hackman’s popular movies, The French Connection, the actor portrayed the role of NYPD Detective Jimmy ‘Popeye’ Doyle.

The sequence begins when Popeye chases Nicoli, who, to escape being captured, boards an elevated subway. Popeye chases the subway with a car while cutting through traffic and almost crashing into other cars, making it an intense sequence.

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5) The Bourne Identity

This sequence involves Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne and Franka Potente’s Marie being chased down by the police through the one-way streets of Paris.

The scene has become iconic as Damon’s Bourne tries to run away from the police on a beaten-down Mini Cooper through the rainy streets and even throws it down a flight of stairs, making it highly intense. Adding to the thrilling scene is the background score, which is a Paul Oakenfold song called, Ready Steady Go.

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4) Terminator 2: Judgment Day

The epic truck-chase sequence from Terminator 2: Judgement Day is one of the best time-chasing sequences in movies. In the scene, John Connor is being chased by an advanced Terminator T-1000 who wants to kill Connor.

He pursues John through the alleys, destroying his truck, but still continues to chase, until Arnold SSchwarzenegger’s Terminator shows up in his Harley Davidson shooting locks off of gates with his shotgun and jumps into the canal’s concrete surface, and saving John Connor from T-1000.

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3) Bullitt

The car chase sequence from Bullitt has become one of those time chasing sequences that makes the audience revisit the movie. The scene takes place when Steve McQueen’s Bullitt tries to investigate the case on his own when his witness on the organized crimes dies after being attacked by mobsters.

He is followed by a Dodge Charger while he is conducting his investigation. Bullitt drives his Ford Mustang through the hilly and narrow roads of San Francisco in this iconic scene, which is almost eleven minutes long.

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2) Point Break

Indie filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow’s masterpiece, Point Break, gives another one of those realistic time chasing sequences that later on became one of the best among numerous chasing sequences in movies.

The scene begins as a car-chasing sequence when FBI agents Keanu Reeves’s Utah and Gary Busey’s Pappas chase Patrick Swayze’s Bodhi. The intense chase sequence has no background score, which makes it more realistic, as only the sounds of tires screeching or the noise of traffic can be heard.

As Bodhi tries to run away through the narrow alleyways, Utah follows him through it by getting rid of several obstacles thrown at him by Bodhi. However, he fails to catch Bodhi in the intense chase due to his old injury becoming active once more, and he can’t follow him anymore.

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1) Ronin

John Frankenheimer’s 1998 film, Ronin is still renowned for its epic time chasing sequences. The car chase sequences of the movie that were filmed in France are regarded as one of the best and realistic chasing sequences.

For instance, one of the best high- speed car chase in the movie happens in Paris when Natascha McElhone’s Deirdre and Jonathan Pryce’s Seamus are persuaded by Robert De Niro’s Sam through the alleys and traffics in Paris. Frankenheimer made sure the chase scene was as realistic as posible which added to the thrilling experience.

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