In my opinion, Jade had absolutely one of the most thrilling car chases in cinematic history. I put it right up there with Bullitt. Does anyone else agree? And, what are some of your favorite car chase scenes?
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Don't know if it is as good as 'Bullit', but for certain no hot car like a 1968 Ford Mustang 390 GT 2+2 Fastback with a std trany. Automatics don't cut "sporty." )
Some good trivia here--The director called for speeds of about 75-80 mph, but the cars (including the ones containing the cameras) reached speeds of over 110 mph. Filming of the chase scene took three weeks, resulting in 9 minutes and 42 seconds of footage. They were denied permission to film on the Golden Gate Bridge.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062765/trivia
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Comparing this car chase to the one in Bullitt? I can think of worse comparisons, but not many. Oh, let's give it a try. It would be like comparing a spray tan to a third degree burn. A rain shower to Hurricane Katrina, it's tantamount to saying that Barbed Wire was a credible remake of Casablanca. I realize that all extended car chases that don't involve a slow white Bronco bend the limits of credulity, but there are all car chases that are well done, and then there is Jade.
Bullitt set the bench mark for what a great car chase can be, but almost any car chase is better than the one featured in Jade. To wit: To Live and Die in L.A., the Bourne Trilogy (pick one, go ahead), Drive. I had the misfortune of rewatching Jade just last night, and I can only excuse the lapse of reasoning that went into watching this piece of dreck once again, on the fact that it had been so long since I had seen it the first time that I had forgotten how truly bad the movie really is.
But leaving other elements of the movie behind, let's just concentrate on the car chase. It starts off ridiculous with the hit and run...and rehit and rerun. Caruso has the time to watch this from the cafe he is seated in, dash out to the street to check on the victim, give some instructions to the standers-by, get back to his car, pull out and immediately catch up with the fleeing T-Bird. Okay, For the sake of story, let's go with that.
They then have a prolonged chase through a busy city in which traffic, and it is busy, miraculously disappears just at the right moment. Carusso's steering and facial responses are comedic throughout. And now we get to Chinatown and the slow chase. This is the worst thing I have ever seen and it's interminable. Any credibility as a crappy car chase, and it had been crappy up to that point, immediately descends into the realm of...well what's worse than crappy? Whatever is the crappiest allusion, take one step below that and you will find the car chase from Jade.
But wait, it gets worse. I don't have the strength to keep ripping this thing apart, so if this has not only not dissuaded you, but persuaded you to see how bad this car chase really is, by all means, take a gander. It is now a precious time in my life that I will never get back.
Bullitt was good.
I haven't seen Jade, but I thought the rainy car chase in We Own the Night was very clever as the windscreen wipers suggest the beat of a heart out of time with the action - as if it was happening in slow motion, the way such things are often said to appear.
There's a good one at the start of Driver, where Ryan Gosling's character eludes the police for a few minutes.
The end of Deathproof is probably one of the best pure stunt chases I've seen, but perhaps not the best driving.
For the OP, who may be dead by now: No. Absolutely not. Completely derivative of Bullit, and one or more Dirty Harry movies. Rhetorical question: do you know, well, anything at all about driving, cars, or both?
For Bruce and bunnygumbo, we're on the same page. My only question is, how do you know that it was a Mustang 390 and not a 427 or 428? Most folks don't know that most iterations of the street version of the 427 Cobra used a Ford 428 with a four-barrel carb that Car & Driver magazine described as being " The size of a bathtub." It was easier to drive on the street than the NASCAR-derived 427. A very few 'Stangs got the 427.
It was pretty ridiculous IMO. Caruso yelling at people to call 911 while the woman's laid splatted on the road (duh), cars flying 30 feet in the air (no idea if this happens in reality but it looks comical), the bad guy stopping at a red light after ramming his way through traffic, Chinese monks karate chopping the car while the rest of the parade carries on oblivious, one car 'punching' an other off the pier.
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