This week sees the release of the new Colin Farrell action-thriller Dead Man Down (review HERE), which culminates in one of the best, most explosive shoot-outs in recent cinema. So it got us thinking, which other movies had fantastic, bullet-strewn, blood-pack-exploding shoot-outs? Here's our top ten!
Beware, the following videos are filled with violence, so may be NSFW. Also, SPOILERS!

FACE/OFF
Having just had a shoot-out on a helicopter that resulted in a plane crashing (!), John Travolta and Nicolas Cage then continue the battle in an airport hanger, with just about everything in the vicinity exploding into fireworks and splinters of wood. And this is just one of about a million gun-fights in this movie.

HARD BOILED
From the same director as Face/Off, John Woo really knew how to put a shoot-out together! Here he puts Chow Yun-fat into a bad-guy filled hospital and films a large part of the hugely ambitious firefight in one long take! That's just the kind of action insanity we don't really see in modern action movies anymore. Bring back John Woo!

HEAT
The bank robbery was a complete success, until they get outside and see that they've been made, and all hell breaks loose. The epic centrepiece of Michael Mann's masterpiece is one of the most precision made pieces of action ever put to film. The fact that it features Robert De Niro and Al Pacino firing machine guns at each other only makes it all the better.
Clip here!

THE MATRIX
In a film already dripping with cool, this has got to be the coolest scene in the movie. From the moment Keanu rocks through the metal detector to reveal he's covered in weapons, the following few minutes is a ballet of bullets, blood and bits of wall. Carrie Anne Moss also makes doing cartwheels in catsuits look all too easy.

ROAD TO PERDITION
The most gorgeous and emotional shoot out on the list, when Tom Hanks discovers that his mentor Paul Newman has turned on him, he waits in shadows, in the rain… and takes out his whole crew, before gunning down Newman himself. The fact that we don't hear most of the bullets being fired only makes it all the more cinematic.

SCARFACE
"Say hello to my little friend!" Al Pacino again, but this time as a one-man army against a well-armed hit squad. Director Brian De Palma's gloriously over-the-top movie ends with the most over-the-top shoot out, with Pacino's over-the-top Tony Montana screaming obscenities until the very end.

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS
Colin Farrell sure does like his shoot-outs, even if this one is the creation of Sam Rockwell. Unhappy that his friend's screenplay is going to end without an action climax, Rockwell takes it upon himself to write one. What happens next is a meta deconstruction of all bloated shoot-outs, while being absolutely hilarious at the same time.
It's JUST come out on Blu-Ray/DVD to buy, so unfortunately no YouTube clip. But trust us, it's awesome.

THE UNTOUCHABLES
Director Brian De Palma again, this time trading into the excess of Scarface for unrivalled tension. Waiting for a witness at a train station, Kevin Costner and Andy Garcia realise that they are not alone, as gangsters ambush them. Unfortunately this all takes place as a baby-stroller, with the baby still inside, begins to roll down a flight of stairs. Nail biting isn't the word for it!

THE WAY OF THE GUN
Probably the least known movie on this list, The Way Of The Gun is an overlooked classic. Ryan Phillipe and Benicio Del Toro are best buds who seem to be getting into endless trouble, and this time culminates in this realistic, visceral gun fight against dozens of bad guys headed up James Caan. Writer/director Christopher McQuarrie went on to do Jack Reacher, and is now being lined up for Mission: Impossible 5.

THE WILD BUNCH
Sam Peckinpah's seminal 1969 movie has HUNDREDS of folks involved in a massive shoot out in the old west. Despite the amount of people and action and bullets involved, it's still a masterpiece in choreographed action, as you still have complete understanding of what has happened to who. In a word; Epic.