My first choice has to be the "Road to Perdition", with its unique and eccentric shootout scene, without a doubt it has to be

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My first choice has to be the “Road to Perdition”, with its unique and eccentric shootout scene, without a doubt it has to be my review topper.  Trust Sam Mendez to conjure the unexpected.   Paul Newman along with his body guards depart from a café and into an eerie, rain bombarded street, dark and threatening with only dim street lamps as a light source.  Paul Newman and his guards are all wearing long black coats and the general gangster uniform.  There is a long camera shot of them walking towards their vehicle, with
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their umbrellas.  The camera zooms into the window of Paul Newman’s vehicle where the audience watch the drivers face fall into the steering wheel.  He had been shot!  This dramatic change in atmosphere is quickly revealed with the camera zooming out rapidly, replicating the tempo of this scene.  A mysterious, ghostly flashing light emerges from the darkness.  The camera quickly moves from the light and into the faces of Paul Newman’s body guards, again mirroring the speed of the scene.  A guard dramatically falls to the floor.  Shocking!  This is where Sam Mendez is separated from the rest; he is ...

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