Man, I thought I was the only one that's heard of The Machine Girl. I should do a review on that movie. Those Japanese flicks totally go all out in splatters! There's definitely no MPAA in the system. This list will need to be revised again...

I dig the List. I see a pre-Batman Christian Bale in 'Equilibrium' (little seen, exceptionally well done) but it didn't make the list? How can you beat 'gunkata'? if your list is Gun-Fu? How about, from the same Director of 'Equilibrium', Milla Jovovich's library shootout in "UltraViolet"?
Here's a few female Gun-Fuer's 4 ur consideration:
Kate Beckingsale's trainstation shootout in "Underworld," and
Minase Yashiro in "Machine Gun Girl"- her friggin arm is high powered machine gun!

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Western shootouts are cool! Just seeing someone shoot a revolver and then cocking the hammer to shoot another within a second is good cinema. I failed to mention some others also, like Tombstone and Young Guns. I also liked the railroad standoff between Charles Bronson and the three outlaws in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West.

Nice list. Don't forget about Tony Montana's bullet-riddled farewell in Scarface--another De Palma flick. SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!

Speaking of western shoot-outs, there are two that I believe outdo The Wild Bunch spectacular you use here. The first is the shootout in the cemetery in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly between Blondie (Clint Eastwood), Tuco (Eli Wallach), and Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef). Quentin Tarantino has said more than once that this scene, in his opinion, is the greatest piece of directing in film history (that would be Sergio Leone, of course, who could be arguably the greatest director ever).

Also, the final shootout in Kevin Costner's oft-overlooked 2003 film, Open Range, is absolutely brilliant due not only to its choreography, but also for its stark realism.

There's my two cents...

Yep, I had the shootout scene from Heat on my original list which went up to ten. I agree on De Palma. The man has directed some of the most interesting scenes from the tracking shot in Snake Eyes to mind-blowing twists in Body Double.

Cool article - I watched each fight (makes me want go out and kick somebody's ass!). The one that amazed me the most was De Palma's train station "Odessa Steps" homage. Freaking incredible (it was even better than I remember). De Palma often gets left behind when discussions turn to the greatest directors of the 70s - the holy trinity of Coppola, Scorcese, and Spielberg seem to hog most of the press - but, I'd put Brian D. at the very top of the heap when it comes to visual mastery and stylings...I'd probably add Michael Mann's downtown LA shootout in Heat to your list, too.