
He later found out the woman waxing him had lied in her CV, she’d never actually waxed anyone before. Steve Carrell enters a world of chest-waxing pain, which ends in swearing, screaming and bleeding. The acrobatics featured in the opening scenes then sees Bond chasing the bad guy into a building site and battling him 61m above the ground. The high-speed foot pursuit incorporates jumps and rolls, ending with Bourne crashing into a bathroom and strangling the bad guy with a towel.ĭaniel Craig’s own death-defying crane jump was voted the best James Bond stunt of all time, according to a Pommy poll in 2008.

Matt Damon chases a hitman over the rooftops of Tangiers, while the hitman chases cute Nicky Parsons and the cops chase Bourne. A bloke at the pub told us it wasn’t a real boulder, but we don’t believe him. Indy flicks are boss for stunt work, like when the dude gets dragged under a speeding truck, but we’re fans of the bit where he has to outrun a massive boulder. Filmed on a Chicago street, the stunt crew used a huge charge to lift the big rig.įilmed near Broken Hill, NSW, this classic 1981 Aussie flick climaxes with a 15-minute chase involving a truck, cars, bikes and a gyrocopter that still looks extreme all these years later. This post features ten great film stunts of all time.Īfter an intense chase through Gotham City, a semi-trailer goes arse over head and leaves the Joker in a daze. With the release of Thor, it’s time to celebrate the one part of “lights, camera, action” that we care about — and that’s the bit where maniacs risk their lives. A maths expert was used to make sure the angles were cool for James Bond’s corkscrew jump involving an AMC Hornet spinning 360 degrees horizontally over a broken bridge.
