Best tactical movies?

[eurohacker]

Let's make a list, y'all! I want accurate combat depictions...

The ones off the top of my head:
Saving private Ryan
The Way of the gun
Tears of the sun
We were soldiers

 

[1 old 0311]

The opening of Pvt. Ryan shows the German machine gunner firing controlled 5-10 round bursts.This is reality. Most depict gunners going through a 200 round belt nonstop.Melted barrel,no control.

Kevin

 

[CentralTexas]

Tears of the sun?

Actually some of the worst such as the jungle fight scenes. They would have killed theoir own men with those tactics.

 

[hksw]

IMO, it's hard to beat Band of Brothers, although not really a movie. I thought the action in Proof of Life was pretty good.

 

[eurohacker]

CentralTexas: how so?

 

[Black Majik]

Black Hawk Down
HEAT

 

[Blackhawk 6]

Actually some of the worst such as the jungle fight scenes. They would have killed theoir own men with those tactics.

I thought they were pretty accurate. You have to remember, they are SEALs.

 

[mattf7184]

SWAT duh

 

[Valkman]

Yea, SWAT taught me a 1911 can be fired with the slide locked back!

 

[Azrael256]

+1 to Band of Brothers. Speilberg and Hanks worked pretty hard to make it realistic, and the very few errors and omissions can be explained away by the availability of equipment. Not all the tanks and heavy guns were quite right, and not all of the equipment was exactly as it was then, but you work with what you've got, and they did a good job. I noticed one or two of the firing an empty weapon mistakes, and I read something about the C-47 pilots wearing modern headphones. I don't really consider those to be a problem.

 

[mrstang01]

I can't believe Heat didn't get mentioned first. It is the tacti-cool movie!

 

[RevDisk]

Heat, Black Hawk Down, Saving Pvt Ryan

 

[Lennyjoe]

The way of the gun
Heat
Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan

 

[Joejojoba111]

I like the shootout in the grocery parking lot, where DeNiro fires bursts at Pacino, any other movie and they'd plant a couple squibs in a brick wall and make sparks fly off parked cars, but not HEAT!

And when the guys are fleeing the bank in their car, and one guys fires bursts through the rear window with his AR-15, the muzzle rises a lot because he doesn't have an aggressive stance, and if you go frame by frame a 5.56mm hole appears in the rear edge of the roof... Now THAT's realism!

Most movies use obscured barrels, I hear, to make blanks cycle, but not that one! (well that scene, at least)


Otherwise, Unforgiven was the gunfighter movie. It's Deep and cool both.

 

[coylh]

Twilight Samurai

 

[slopemeno]

Thief
Attack Force Z (but get the FF button ready)
Hombre
Final Option "Tony, whats happening?!"

 

[peacefuljeffrey]

I'd have to say that "The Limey" has some good tactical action in it. There have to be a million other movies that qualify.

"Quigley Down Under" floats my boat. I love when he gives a wounded man a revolver loaded with one round, and tells him to make the most of it. The guy can either shoot him in the back as he walks away, or he can take his own life rather than die of thirst under the desert sun. Okay, so this is not exactly tactically safe on Quigley's part, but I'm allowing him to substitute style and balls for tactics in this case.

Also a good watch for "tactics" is "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins". (The finest series of movies that never became a series. LOL!) This one'll show you how to evade bullets even as you creep closer to your attacker, and then pop his mag into the air, catch it, and de-cartridge it with your thumb. Oh, then you can poke him with your super-strong fingertips.

But come on, what movie can beat "RED DAWN" for tactics?!
They pop up from camouflaged foxholes and mow down Central Americans...
They use women as bait to ambush Ruskies...


-Jeffrey

 

[trooper]

Hey, nobody mentioned "Collateral" yet. I thought the scene in which Vincent dispatches the two would-be muggers in a dark alley was top-notch...

Mozambique-style close-range gunfighting and a good drawstroke combined with hand-to-hand stuff.


Trooper

 

[esskay]

Hey, nobody mentioned "Collateral" yet. I thought the scene in which Vincent dispatches the two would-be muggers in a dark alley was top-notch...

Noticing a pattern here! Just like Heat, Collateral was directed by Michael Mann.

Might as well highlight another Michael Mann film.... The Last of the Mohicans. Tactical long range musketeering!

 

[Lennyjoe]

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins".

I haven't seen that movie in years. The funniest parts involve the oriental trainer.

 

[chevrofreak]

Michael Mann is the mann

 

[MK11]

Hombre! Good choice. The final shootout has to be one of the most realistic filmed.

 

[Texian Pistolero]

While I dig "Heat" and some of the other temple recommends,

I am THRILLED that somebody mentione "The Limey".

This is such a great flick, where the director just said,

"let's see what happens, if it really happens."

"The Limey" is on my list of "Ten Most UNDERAPPRECIATED films ever made."


Also, "Who'll Stop the Rain".

 

[centac]

"The Replacement Killers" may not be tactically correct, but it has its moments of stylish violence.

I believe Harry Humphries consulted on "Tears of the Sun." I'd like to be there when someone tells hims his tactics were funky

 

[torpid]

The way of the gun
Heat
Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan

Lennyjoe nailed it.