Best IED Scenes
by phostre | created - 19 Sep 2011 | updated - 21 Sep 2011 | PublicMovies with interesting, although not necessarily realistic, depictions of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), boobytraps, explosives preparations, tactics, or just plain ol' bombs. Inclusion on this list does not necessarily mean the movie itself is any good, just that I happened to think the 'bomb scene' in the movie is worth watching. I hope you'll agree. Spoilers in comments.
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1. Blown Away (1994)
R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An Irish bomber escapes from prison and targets a member of the Boston bomb squad.
Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Lloyd Bridges
Votes: 33,673 | Gross: $30.16M
Bomb scenes: Tommy Lee Jones' character preparing improvised explosive mixture to blast his way out of prison; keystroke-counting bomb on college campus; great scene in kitchen showing common actions that can trigger boobytraps; Tommy Lee Jones in Mad Bomber lab on abandoned boat; various boobytraps on boat; other bomb triggers throughout.
2. Munich (2005)
R | 164 min | Action, Drama, History
After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds
Votes: 238,222 | Gross: $47.40M
3. Sword of Gideon (1986 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 173 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Steven Bauer, Michael York, Robert Joy, Laurent Malet
Votes: 1,340
4. Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free.
Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb, Colm Meaney
Votes: 319,700 | Gross: $73.34M
5. Speed (1994)
R | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.
Director: Jan de Bont | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton
Votes: 391,755 | Gross: $121.25M
6. The Specialist (1994)
R | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A woman entices a bomb expert she's involved with into destroying the mafia that killed her family.
Director: Luis Llosa | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Rod Steiger
Votes: 69,770 | Gross: $57.36M
7. The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
R | 130 min | Drama
An American actress with a penchant for lying is forcibly recruited by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Diane Keaton, Yorgo Voyagis, Klaus Kinski, Sami Frey
Votes: 2,370 | Gross: $7.83M
8. The Fourth Protocol (1987)
R | 119 min | Thriller
John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries.
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Ned Beatty, Joanna Cassidy
Votes: 10,982 | Gross: $12.42M
9. The Soldier (1982)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.
Director: James Glickenhaus | Stars: Ken Wahl, Alberta Watson, Jeremiah Sullivan, William Prince
Votes: 1,524 | Gross: $6.33M
10. Valkyrie (2008)
PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten, Kenneth Branagh
Votes: 259,170 | Gross: $83.08M
11. Operation Valkyrie: The Stauffenberg Plot to Kill Hitler (2008 Video)
44 min | Documentary, Short
At the height of Adolf Hitler's sinister tyranny, a brace group teamed to assassinate him. This doc tells the story of Operation Valkyrie, featuring testimonials from families who helped ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Pierre Isbouts | Stars: Adam Anderson, Jason Anderson, Jonathan Barbee, Ronald Barbee
Votes: 195
12. Stauffenberg (2004 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 92 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1944, in fear of a complete German defeat in the World War II, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (... See full summary »
Director: Jo Baier | Stars: Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Hardy Krüger Jr., Christopher Buchholz
Votes: 2,679
13. The Rock (1996)
R | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.
Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, John Spencer
Votes: 358,017 | Gross: $134.07M
14. Traitor (2008)
PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff | Stars: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Archie Panjabi, Saïd Taghmaoui
Votes: 59,095 | Gross: $23.53M
15. Shooter (I) (2007)
R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after hearing of a plot to kill the President. After being-double crossed for the attempt and on the run, he sets out for the real killer and the truth.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Rhona Mitra, Danny Glover
Votes: 355,491 | Gross: $47.00M
16. Black Sunday (1977)
R | 143 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
When a Black September terrorist group begins a plot to carry out a massive terrorist attack in the United States, an Israeli commando works with the FBI to identify the target and conspirators, and prevent the plan from succeeding.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver
Votes: 9,079 | Gross: $15.77M
17. The Mechanic (1972)
PG | 100 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An aging hitman befriends a young man who wants to be a professional killer. Eventually it becomes clear that someone has betrayed them.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Keenan Wynn, Jill Ireland
Votes: 15,741 | Gross: $7.30M
18. Swordfish (2001)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell led by Gabriel Shear wants the money to help finance their war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away. Gabriel brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson to help him.
Director: Dominic Sena | Stars: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle
Votes: 196,204 | Gross: $69.77M
19. The Hurt Locker (2008)
R | 131 min | Drama, Thriller, War
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce
Votes: 473,645 | Gross: $17.02M
20. The Last Boy Scout (1991)
R | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A private detective's protected female witness is murdered, prompting him and the victim's boyfriend to investigate the crime that leads to a corrupt politician and a crooked football team owner.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field, Noble Willingham
Votes: 112,019 | Gross: $59.51M
1. Guy gets into car, turns ignition switch and car blows up. Classic overdone Hollywood fireball, but still a good clip. 2. Guy gets into car and ALMOST gets blown up by C-4. 3. Bad guy shoots lock on trunk of car, C-4 inside blows up (without a cap!)
21. The Kingdom (2007)
R | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A team of U.S. government agents are sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman
Votes: 132,256 | Gross: $47.54M
00:08:50 - man dressed as security detonates suicide vest in crowd chanting 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his messenger.' 00:11:10 - RSO and first responders on scene 1 hr later when secondary device detonates. 00:56:02 - contruction of suicide vests: shrapnel, explosive, cell phone, caps, soldering 01:03:05 - autopsy, shrapnel being removed from victims' bodies 01:04:08 - manual search of crater at blast seat, filled with water, evidence recovery, then continues at... 01:05:04 - pieces of VBIED vehicle found 01:05:31 - autopsy, more shrapnel pieces recovered from victims' bodies (marbles) 01:06:08 - PBI scene, marble, more VBIED parts from crater 01:12:37 - handshake reveals missing fingers "Every bombmaker, at some point, gets bitten by his own work." 01:12:52 - VBIED construction, blue barrels, AN prills 01:13:00 - PBI scene, hospital ID info on O2 tank recovered in crater 01:14:13 - VBIED construction 01:15:48 - VBIED construction 01:19:50 - VBIED attack on motorcade - the rest of the movie is pretty phukkin intense from here on out.
22. Payback (I) (1999)
R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After a successful heist, Porter is left for dead. Once he recovers, he seeks vengeance and wants his share of the money.
Director: Brian Helgeland | Stars: Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, David Paymer
Votes: 145,660 | Gross: $81.53M
01:02:30 IED under bed, tied to phone, discovered before initiation 01:04:00 fuel line cut, ignited by cigarette, nice fireball 01:35:20 IED under bed again, detonates after bad guy picks up phone
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