Best cinematic shoot-out

[Basketball Jones]

If you've seen The WIld Bunch, you'd have to put it at the top. It's the standard-bearer.

Hard Boiled is near the top as well.

The final shootout in the hotel in The Getaway (the Steve McQueen version) is pretty good.

Last Man Standing is a poor remake of FIstful of Dollars, but the shootout scene near the end is pretty incredible as well.

 

[HornHawk]

3:10 to Yuma
Silverado
Unforgiven

 

[El Torito]

El Mariachi

 

[CaptainEd]

I agree with all the previous multiple mentions but had to add:

Blackhawk Down when the two Delta snipers drop in for the helicopter pilot.

 

[Endust]

1.HEAT
2. Chirgurh v. Llewelyn in Eagle Pass - No Country for Old Men

 

[UT wildcatter]

Extreme Prejudice

 

[UT wildcatter]

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Big Jake

 

[PFD]

Boondock Saints is underrated.

 

[TexasTower]

Gotta be Heat or maybe the Magnificent Seven.

Although... you gotta through the opening scene in Saving Private Ryan in there somewhere.

 

[madscientist]

agree on true romance and desperado. both fun to watch.

 

[general35]

1. The Wild Bunch: All others are copies of some form. Truly amazing for its time and is still arguably the best.

2. Heat

3. Scarface: but the lasty two in no particulat order.

IMO: War movies do not count otherwise I might put the Apocolypse Now cavalry scene when the helicopters smoke the village.

 

[trueut2003]

I'll echo the OP's suggestion of L.A. Confidential. I've always thought that it was the most realistic shootout.

I also love Unforgiven, one of my favorite movie endings ever.
"I don't deserve this. To die like this. I was building a house."
"Deserve's got nuthin' to do with it."
"See you in hell, William Munny."
"Yeah".
BOOM!