10 Most Gratuitous Citywide Destructions In Movie History

10. Metropolis - Man Of Steel

Proving every inch the successor to Michael Bay in the stakes of blockwide devastation - if not necessarily in the realm of slow-pan derrière shots - Zack Snyder's DCEU kickstarter starts off with Russell Crowe riding some unhinged space fly creature around and ends with a quasi-symphonic razing of one of the comic-book genre's most famous locales.

The site of Superman and Zod's cataclysmic crash, it's a wham-bang smashathon between the pair as they careen through buildings at breakneck pace with an arguable lack of care or restraint for anybody who may get in their way, all while an alien craft suspended from the sky continues to pummel the city below with its own gravitational wrecking ball.

If this overwhelming, occasionally muddled spectacle had an upside, audiences would have to wait until its follow-up for it, with Batman v Superman recasting the destruction as a bravura opening sequence at ground level.