10 Most Intense Car Chases In Movie History

The American comedy band The Blues Brothers might not spring to mind immediately when you think of amazing car chases, but their cult classic movie absolutely should. Elwood definitely proves his 'motorhead' status once the police start crashing through the doors and windows of the Dixie Square Mall in hot pursuit of the Bluesmobile.

Here, we're treated to a huge number of police cars careening through shop windows and frightening the living daylights out of fleeing shoppers, all the while Jon Belushi and Dan Akroyd (Jake and Elwood respectively) casually whip around the Dixie Square mall quipping about the sheer variety of items found within. Comedy and action are balanced against each other perfectly, all the while we're treated to absolute mayhem on screen.

This sequence is every bit as ridiculous as it is brilliant. Whipping these police cars and the Bluesmobile around the pedestrian corridors must have taken incredible skill, and this is all captured with perfectly framed cinematography and some impressive stunts are thrown in for good measure. Set against a light-hearted ska backing track, the tension disappears into the good-natured digs of the two brothers within the miraculously safe (and iconic) Bluesmobile.