10 Most Intense Shootouts In Movie History
5. The Matrix - Lobby Shootout
The first Matrix movie showcased some impressive gunplay, even going so far as to invent a new filming style called "bullet time." While those scenes showing a slowed-down fight between Neo and the Agents are amazing, you can't talk about a gunfight in The Matrix without giving credit where it's due: the lobby scene.
After Morpheus is captured and interrogated, Neo and Trinity grab a battalion's worth of guns and head into the building. After getting through the metal detector, the fight breaks out between the two against dozens of equally-armed bad guys.
When this movie was filmed in the '90s, the Wachowskis could have structured the set to allow for CGI enhanced filming, but they chose not to. When the bullets tear apart the columns, they really blew those things apart. This was a one-and-done scene and it worked amazingly well.
As Neo and Trinity jump and rebound across the lobby, they take out a total of 15 people without taking as much as a scratch themselves. This scene was so perfectly shot, it stands as one of the best-filmed action scenes of all time. All gunfights shot since this movie debuted in 1999 either emulated this fight or used it as inspiration.