History DrivesLikeCrazy / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/LeGendarmeDeSaintTropez'':
** In this French film series, there is a recurring character (and running gag), [[NunsAreFunny Sister Clotilde]] (France Rumilly), a ''[[PluckyGirl very enthusiastic]]'' nun who drives like crazy. By the way, she's ''myopic''. Once a movie, the eponymous Gendarme is forced (each time more reluctantly) to enlist her help for a ChaseScene, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIL6Hr_jg9g then all bets]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhTw0zGbkwI are off]]. Thankfully, most of the time she's driving a 2CV, a not-too-powerful car... which certainly isn't supposed to do some of the things Sister Clotilde manages to do with it.
** In ''Film/LeGendarmeEnBalade'', it's a younger nun at the wheel... unfortunately:
--->'''Sister Clotilde:''' I taught her everything!
** Cruchot himself isn't the most prudent of drivers, especially when stressed (i.e. most of the time).
** Josépha during her arrival in Saint-Tropez (''Film/LeGendarmeSeMarie''). Cruchot wants her arrested for this until he learns who she is, and before falling in love with her.

* ''Film/AceVenturaWhenNatureCalls''. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fToRej14lCQ Like a glove]]." In both movies, the driving is made even worse by cracked windshields that forces Ace to drive with his head out the window. Though he drives like that anyway even if the windshield isn't cracked. [[UncattyResemblance Especially if there's a dog in the car with him.]]

* ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'':
** Mia Thermopolis does some reckless driving in her light blue Mustang up the hill as it rolls into a San Francisco trolley car (but luckily Queen Clarisse prevented the young princess from getting her driver's license suspended or revocated due to the Genovian Order of the Rose).
** Subverted as Mia is getting away from her house in the same light blue Mustang but is unsuccessful (as Joe arrives). Next time, Mia, use Benny the Cab (from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'') instead.
* ''Film/MenInBlack'':
** Agent Kay goes from point A to point B like he was in hot pursuit as a standard. When he is in an actual hurry to get get there, [[WhatAPieceOfJunk the LTD's "red button" mode]] means that he has no issues with driving on rooftops and nearly missing signs by inches.
** The Taxi drivers in New York are also implied to be terrible drivers. When the ambassadors arrive at dinner for negotiations and what ultimately turned out to be their last meal, the short ambassador apologizes for his lateness and explains that the taxi drivers in the city are terrible. (see also the Real Life folder below)
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** Bond does drive insanely once in a while. Usually justified by his needing to get somewhere in a really, really big hurry. Sometimes to [[Film/GoldenEye get laid]]. Often it's both.
** But the prize goes to Eve [[spoiler:Moneypenny]] in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''...
--->''[Eve cuts it a bit close and loses a side mirror]''\\
'''Bond:''' No problem, you weren't using it.\\
''[Eve deliberately wipes off the other one]''\\
'''Eve:''' Wasn't using that one, either.
* The bus driver played by the Late Great Music/RayCharles (yes, the blind guy) in ''Film/SpyHard''. Tends to say "Next stop, X... I think," on one occasion ending with an OffscreenCrash.
* Corrando literally invites Death, in ''Film/DeathTakesAHoliday'' by his insanely dangerous driving.
* Another Leslie Nielsen flick, ''Film/TheNakedGun'', has Frank Drebin. He's competent behind the wheel, but he sucks at parking. At least until he decided to drive a tank. [[DisasterDominoes Drebin plows through a house, letting the bad guy he was trying to catch get away, breaks the controls, runs through a clothesline, catches a doghouse with the dog still in it dragging it behind him, and finally ramming into the City Zoo releasing several zoo animals by the time he finally manages to stop.]]

* ''Film/PoliceAcademy'':
** Hightower, who admitted that he hadn't actually driven a car between graduating from school and enlisting in the academy (not implausible in a city with a good public transit system). Mahoney from the same movie parked a car in a two-foot space between two other cars, and taught Hightower a refresher course.
** The Commandant always crashes his golf cart when parking.
* The entire point of the ''Film/{{Taxi}}'' series of action-comedy movies written by Luc Besson. In the second movie, he actually upgraded his cab for limited flight (well, increased jump-length, but still, it had WINGS...), and installed automatic barf-bags for the passengers.
* Anna from ''Film/YesterdayTodayAndTomorrow'', played by Creator/SophiaLoren, manages to rear-end three different cars during one short drive to the country, and she nearly hits two different pedestrians.
* The Kurgan has a scene like this in ''Film/{{Highlander}}'', where he terrorizes the DamselInDistress by driving on the wrong side of the road. His immortality makes this much safer for him.
* Raoul Duke in ''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas''. "I've never missed a plane yet."
* Annie from ''Film/Speed2CruiseControl''. What made this JustForFun/{{egregious}} is that she was a perfectly capable driver in [[Film/{{Speed}} the first film]] who just simply lost her license for "speeding", but she then [[{{Flanderization}} mutated]] into a completely incompetent driver incapable of handling a motor vehicle.

* Alan Parrish in ''Film/{{Jumanji}}''. Justified (sort of) because he's been stuck inside a board game for about 26 years and never actually learned how to drive.
* ''Film/AceVenturaWhenNatureCalls''. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fToRej14lCQ Like a glove]]." In both movies, the driving is made even worse by cracked windshields that forces Ace to drive with his head out the window. Though he drives like that anyway even if the windshield isn't cracked. [[UncattyResemblance Especially if there's a dog in the car with him.]]
-->"[[HypocriticalHumor You might wanna think about getting this baby detailed]]."

* Detective Rosewood of the ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' series.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Anakin Skywalker, even when he's not in an extreme sports race or space battle -- and on Coruscant, driving is a three-dimensional affair.
--->'''Obi-Wan:''' I don't mind flying -- ''[has to duck]'' -- but what you're doing is suicide!
** Anakin's piloting: Crazy? Yes. Bad? Anything but. He's one of if not the best pilot in the entire series based on the ridiculous lengths he's willing to go to. Remember, he's been at this since he was podracing ''as a kid''.
** Han Solo counts as well -- doing the Kessel Run in twelve parsecs and flying into a goddamn asteroid field to avoid TIE Fighters are insane by any measure.
* The irreverent old Maude in ''Film/HaroldAndMaude''. Donuts in an intersection is the closest she comes to a stop, lanes (and indeed ''roads'') are only a suggestion, and she has no compunction about stealing all her rides... and telling the cops!
* ''Film/AnnieHall''. Her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPcSd7DDLk brother Dwayne]] isn't too good, either.

* In Creator/JackieChan's ''[[Film/WhoAmI1998 Who Am I?]]'', the female lead that [[spoiler:isn't a CIA operative]] has this as her one redeeming feature. She DrivesLikeCrazy... with amazing skill. She gets through an alley by essentially driving over something to tip the car on it's side. After she's through the narrow passage, she... somehow... manages to get the car right-side up again and zooms off. In the final part of the chase scene, she's driving through what is largely a parking lot/road in Amsterdam and sees a spot. Without hardly breaking her at least 50 mph speed, she turns and ''backs into'' the spot, stopping on a dime, and everyone in the car ducks down as the pursuers drive by. Other than that, she's TheDitz.

* In ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'' the Ghost of Christmas Past takes the form of a maniacal New York Cabbie who makes a u-turn through a hotel's front awning right after Frank gets in. Turns into a BrickJoke when Claire hails his cab at the film's end.
-->'''Claire:''' Taxi! Can you get me to the IBC building in three minutes?\\
'''Ghost of Christmas Past:''' ''[chomping cigar]'' Which floor?

* Elwood Blues from ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''. From the bridge jump at the beginning to his awesome parking skills (he flips the car ''around'' instead of backing up), Elwood is simply awesome. But no mention of Elwood's driving would be complete without [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIdGxR-aU6o the mall scene]]. And if that's not enough, during the film's climactic ten-plus minute [[HotPursuit chase scene]], he manages to [[https://youtu.be/eGu2camh0WA reverse his car off an incomplete highway drop in a way that makes his car pull a backflip of all things]] over some Illinois Nazis who are chasing him, which only astounds them, and makes them completely miss the fact that they are running out of road, making them [[AbsurdAltitude launch off the incomplete highway into the air, before plummeting from a height that rivals the height of the Chicago Sears Tower]].

* In ''Film/{{Bandslam}}'', when Charlotte pulls up with Will in the passenger seat, he timidly suggests she might want to use her turn signals. Her response? "They don't need to know my business!"
* ''Film/AClockworkOrange'': Alex and his droogs have a game they like to play, called "Hogs of the Road".
* In ''Film/RaisingArizona'', when she has to pick up H.I. following a robbery, Ed's police training kicks in, and she immediately turns into Film/{{Bullitt}}.
* In ''Film/MrHollandsOpus'', Mr. Holland takes a summer job as an instructor of student drivers. Ironically, one scene has ''him'' doing the crazy driving with two of his visibly worried students as passengers. He ignores traffic signs and signals, passes other cars on the right side, and traverses a one-way street in the wrong direction, all while going well above the speed limit. The reason for this insane driving is revealed when Mr. Holland reaches his destination: [[spoiler: it's the local hospital, where his wife had given birth to their son shortly before he got there.]]
* Kim from ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding''.
* In ''Film/AliGIndahouse'', Sacha Cohen's character (Ali G)'s gang is outraged at the "crazy" driving of a rival gang that drove through a yellow light instead of stopping. This after a "street race" that consisted of both gangs going ''exactly'' the speed limit.
* In ''Film/LAStory'' the main character once, because of traffic reasons, decides to take what is probably one of [[CrazyEnoughToWork the most ridiculous shortcuts ever]]. Even more comic than that is the fact that everyone just waves to him as he passes by, as if he does this often. For a straighter example, Sara, who is from England, doesn't understand that you're supposed to drive on the right side of the road in the US.
* ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'' - four parties of normal, law-abiding types get word of a buried fortune and promptly turn into a mass highway menace. Everyone else who gets involved later acts the same way.

* In ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'', Bruce Banner and Dr. Betty Ross went to New York City, and decided on taking a taxi cab after deciding the subway would be too cramped for his comfort. It then cuts to them riding in a taxi with the taxi driver driving extremely recklessly, with Bruce Banner attempting to calm himself so he won't transform inside the cab, and just barely managed to keep calm when they arrived at the university. Upon arrival, Betty Ross also screamed at the driver at the top of her lungs about his recklessness.
%%* Leroy in ''Film/MysteryTeam''.
* In ''Film/GetSmart'', there is a scene in which Max drives through a golf course, entirely oblivious both to his surroundings and to the Chief's concern for his life.

* Vince Ricardo (Peter Falk) in ''Film/TheInLaws'' is a crazy driver in one scene during a chase; he actually backs down ''the wrong way on a highway''. He doesn't think he's crazy:
-->'''Vince Ricardo:''' You know, I'm such a great driver, it's incomprehensible that they took my license away.
* Creator/WCFields as ''Film/TheBankDick'' is made to drive a getaway car for a bank robber - this proves to be a bad idea. Knowing him, it's probably drunk driving...
* ''Film/EarthGirlsAreEasy'' - alien Creator/JimCarrey goes joy riding. As he's not familiar with Earth cars, maybe he thinks you're supposed to sit on the window sill and steer with your feet.
* In the Creator/LaurelAndHardy short ''County Hospital'', Stanley drives patient Ollie home, having earlier sat on a hypodermic sedative - he's driving very recklessly to Ollie's horror, depicted by the most laughingly bad rear-projection effects ever.
* The subject of the ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]''-ed ScareEmStraight short ''Film/XMarksTheSpot'' is a truly extreme example, speeding through school zones (though he gets better on that), turns in the wrong lane, and runs people off the road whilst passing. On hills. In the face of oncoming traffic, all while it never being his fault.
* Several in ''Film/TheGumballRally''. Lapchick The Mad Hungarian. Franco, to a lesser extent. Also Ace "Mr. Guts" Preston in the Camaro Z-28, toward the end, as he tries to get through a traffic jam by going up on two wheels (while giving a rebel yell).
* Unlicensed driver Withnail in ''Film/WithnailAndI''. When Marwood (AKA "I") wakes up in the back seat of his Jaguar to find Withnail at the wheel rapidly weaving in and out of early morning traffic on the M25, Withnail simply explains, "I'm making time."
* Beth Cooper from [[Film/ILoveYouBethCooper the movie of (almost) the same name]] and Kirby in ''Film/{{Scream 4}}'' both fit this trope like a glove, and they're mentioned together because both of them are played by Creator/HaydenPanettiere. So if there's ever a reboot of ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' we know who'll be cast in the Adrienne Barbeau role (or the Tara Buckman role, if you go by hair colour rather than name recognition). See also her StarMakingRole in the Live-Action TV folder.

--->'''Flynn:''' Pretty good drivin', huh?\\

* Creator/BruceWillis's character Korben Dallas in ''Film/TheFifthElement'' is introduced as such even ''before'' he gets behind the wheel via a phone call with his mechanic. ''In his first scene''. Fittingly, he's an ex-Starfighter pilot turned cab driver -- in ''New York City''. There is a ChaseScene that show cases his driving "skills". And, like the ''Star Wars'' example above, driving in the future is a 3D experience.
* The first ''Film/MadMax1'' movie was intended to [[ScareEmStraight demonstrate the dangers of reckless driving]]. The hoons and rev-heads who saw the movie [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing left feeling that their lifestyles had been validated.]]
* James T. Kirk, in ''Film/{{Star Trek|2009}}'', apparently learned how to do this when he was a kid in the rebooted universe (see the LiveActionTV section). He drives a vintage Corvette into an old quarry, while being chased by the futuristic Highway Patrol. He ''really'' didn't want his step-father to sell his dad's car.
* ''[[Film/CharliesAngels2000 Charlie's Angels]]'': The first film opens with an EstablishingCharacterMoment for each character; Natalie is shown to be this -- ''as far back as when she still had braces''.
* The basic premise of Steven Spielberg's ''Film/{{Duel}}''. The story consists of a man played by Dennis Weaver, being chased in his car by a BigBadassRig. The rig goes from cutting him off repeatedly, to tormenting him, to trying to kill him, all the while their driving becomes ever more dangerous.
* The title character of ''Film/DanInRealLife'' manages to get two tickets for the same stop sign and in an accident in 3 days, ultimately losing his license.
* ''Film/TheGreenHornetSerials'': Mike Axford. One of his police buddies once threatens to arrest him for "impersonating a motorist".
* In the 1987 ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'' film, Pep Streebek drives like this during a pursuit, much to the irritation of Joe Friday.
-->'''Friday:''' ''[writing in his notebook]'' Reckless endangerment of human life, [[FruitCart willful disregard for private property]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking failure to signal for a safe lane change]]...\\
'''Streebek:''' [[SarcasmMode Yeah, he's really racking up the violations, isn't he]]?\\
'''Friday:''' Not him, YOU. This is your one-way ticket back to civilian life, [[NameMcAdjective Mr. I-Like-To-Throw-The-Book-Out-The-Window]].\\
'''Streebek:''' That sounds like a good idea. ''[throws notebook out the window]''

* This trope sets in motion the plot of ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}''. The accident that wrecks Strange's hands is entirely his own fault, seeing as he was speeding while driving at night, in the rain, while passing in a no-pass zone on a blind curve and talking on the phone. The end credits include a warning about distracted driving.
* Taken to extreme lengths in ''Film/{{Avalanche}}''. After the titular disaster strikes, a rescue crew races off to the scene and causes so much chaos trying to get there that they end up wrecking a store and killing a bystander. That's not counting the ambulance driver who ends up plunging his ambulance off into a ravine and causing it to explode with the leading male's ''mother'' in it!
%%* L in ''Film/DeathNote2017''
* Wyatt Earp in ''Film/{{Sunset|1988}}'', mostly because he doesn't know how to drive.
* Raphael Valdez Jr. in ''Film/KissesForMyPresident'' is a Latin American dictator who, no matter if it's in a car or on a boat, drives like a maniac.
* Detective Friedman makes an offhand comment about being a terrible driver early on in ''Film/JudasKiss''. Turns into a BrickJoke much later when he crashes his car while trying to follow Rickles: breaking his ankle and Hawkins' nose.
* ''Film/{{Lucy}}'': In a chase scene, Lucy drives a one-way street the wrong way. On a police car. And that's not the worst. She has never driven before.
* ''Film/{{Cruella}}'': In keeping with her animated incarnation, Cruella seems unable to drive at a safe speed or without crashing into things any time she gets behind the wheel. Possibly because [[AreYouSureYouCanDriveThisThing she never learned how to drive]].
* Freebie from ''Film/FreebieAndTheBean'' seems to go out of his way to slam into as many other cars as possible during chase scenes.
* In ''Film/NightmareAtNoon'', Charley steals Sheriff Hanks' car and gleefully swerves all over the road, occasionally stopping to ram other people's cars or [[CarFu run people over]].
* A handful of racers in ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' do some pretty crazy things ''before'' the race. The Sheik is notorious for hitting camels, Batman and Mad Dog don't mind driving their truck through things, Mel can't give Terry directions fast enough to warn him about a hotel pool, and the last two, along with Fenderbaum and Blake, are implied to drive drunk. The driving antics let up after the race starts because, well, they're in a hurry.
* In ''Film/LargerThanLife'', Jack rents a truck to transport Vera the elephant despite not knowing how to drive it. While going uphill, the truck slows to fifteen miles per hour until another trucker yells instructions for how to shift gears. Then while going downhill, the truck accelerates out of control.
* ''Film/LoveInTheVilla'': The man who drives Julie to the villa, Uberto, gleefully weaves in and out of lanes, barely avoiding hitting other drivers and pedestrians, and causing Julie to slam into the sides of the car multiple times.
* ''Film/RoyalRendezvous'': Edwina is introduced crashing her car at the manor's garden. Apparently, she's getting too old to drive by herself but doesn't want to admit it. It gets to the point that Rory resorts to sabotaging her car so she won't go out by herself.
* ''Film/DoctorSeries'':
** Whenever Sir Lancelot Spratt is shown driving, he speeds, hogs the road, and hurls abuse at anyone unlucky enough to be in his way:
--->'''Sir Lancelot''': Keep your ruddy Russian salad off the Queen's highway, you blasted oaf!
** As shown in ''Film/DoctorInLove'', Lady Spratt (his wife) isn't much better. She gets distracted while driving Sir Lancelot to a lecture and nearly plows into the side of a double-decker bus:
--->'''Sir Lancelot''': Mind the damn bus, woman!
* ''Series/OnTheBuses'' films:
** ''Film/OnTheBuses'': When trying to make a quick getaway from Betty's house after her husband comes home early, Stan starts the bus off and plows into an out-of-order telephone box. After doing so, he panics and reverses, only to take down a bus stop in the process.
** ''Film/MutinyOnTheBuses'':
*** A distracted Arthur plows his motorcycle into the back of Stan's bus during the opening credits.
*** When learning how to drive a bus, Arthur tears off down the road unable to stop with Stan clinging to the bus' door until he swerves into a farm and manages to brake before he can hit anything. During another one of his lessons, he backs into a bus stop.
*** Olive is learning how to drive a motorbike, but the very idea scares Jack. When she does start driving, he isn't wrong - she can't steer for love nor money and ends up swerving into the depot unable to stop:
---->'''Jack''': Well, I tell you what - if those two are gonna be on the roads, I'm takin' a job on the railways.
* Janet from ''Film/PleaseTurnOver'' is still learning to drive, and leaves her instructor, Ian, a bundle of nerves at the end of each lesson:
-->'''Ian:''' You must always get into neutral when the car's stationary.
-->'''Janet''': Ah, I see.
-->'''Ian''': ''Yeah''. I have told you that ''before'', Janet. Should be instinctive by now.
-->'''Janet''': Well, Ian, I've only had fifteen lessons. You can't expect me to have ''learnt'' everything yet.
* In ''Film/WatchYourStern'', Blissworth is ordered to ride Commander Fanshawe's bicycle as fast as possible to catch up to Commander Phillips' car and retrieve the Creeper torpedo plans, which only causes him to ride into Admiral Pettigrew and knock him into a crate.
* In ''Film/RaisingTheWind'', Jill is in such a hurry to get to the London Academy of Music and the Arts and to get her harp out of her car that she accidentally backs into a cab.
* ''Film/DinnerInAmerica'': When Simon and Patty go on their RoaringRampageOfRevenge and get into a borrowed truck, Simon shouts, "Buckle up! I drive fucking ''nuts!''"

* In Creator/JackieChan's ''Who Am I?'', the female lead that [[spoiler:isn't a CIA operative]] has this as her one redeeming feature. She DrivesLikeCrazy... with amazing skill. She gets through an alley by essentially driving over something to tip the car on it's side. After she's through the narrow passage, she... somehow... manages to get the car right-side up again and zooms off. In the final part of the chase scene, she's driving through what is largely a parking lot/road in Amsterdam and sees a spot. Without hardly breaking her at least 50 mph speed, she turns and ''backs into'' the spot, stopping on a dime, and everyone in the car ducks down as the pursuers drive by. Other than that, she's TheDitz.

* In ''Film/LAStory'' the main character once, because of traffic reasons, decides to take what is probably one of [[CrazyEnoughToWork the most ridiculous shortcuts EVER]]. Even MORE comic than that is the fact that no one reacts like "OMG!! WHAT THE [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK]] is that crazy idiot doing!?", instead actually WAVING to him as he passes by, as if he does this OFTEN. For a straighter example, Sara, who is from England, doesn't understand that you're supposed to drive on the RIGHT side of the road in the US.

* ''Film/{{Tron}}'':
** Kevin Flynn doesn't really know how to fly a Recognizer, and it shows. He bounces off canyon walls, takes out a bridge span, and ends up crashing it in the middle of town.

** Come the ''Film/TronLegacy'' sequel, it certainly runs in the family as his son Sam is ''completely'' disregarding most traffic safety regulations while driving to the Encom Tower for his annual prank. Flynn's apprentice Quorra turns the tables on Sam later by blasting her way into the Game Grid with a light runner, rescuing Sam, and going top speed over the hostile terrain of the Outlands, leaving Sam holding on for dear life.

--->'''Sir Lancelot''': MIND THAT DAMN BUS, WOMAN!

%%* L in ''Film/{{DeathNote2017}}
* Wyatt Earp in ''Film/{{Sunset}}'', mostly because he doesn't know how to drive.

** Agent Kay.

* ''Film/OnTheBuses'': When trying to make a quick getaway from Betty's house after her husband comes home early, Stan starts the bus off and plows into an out-of-order telephone box. After doing so, he panics and reverses, only to take down a bus stop in the process.

* In ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', Bumblebee shows off his rather poor flying skills when he and the other Autobots head into battle. Wheelie and Brains don't fare much better when they stumble across the same ship.

* Film/JamesBond does drive insanely once in a while. Usually justified by his needing to get somewhere in a really, really big hurry. Sometimes to [[Film/GoldenEye get laid]]. Often it's both.

--> Eve cuts it a bit close and loses a side mirror.\\

Eve deliberately wipes off the other one.\\

* Benny the Cab in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''; the first time Eddie and Roger meet him in the film, they have to spring him from the Weasels' paddy wagon, because they arrested him for driving on the sidewalk. ("It was only for a couple of miles!" complains Benny.) Of course, when Roger and Eddie have to use him to escape from Judge Doom and his goons, he ''really'' drives likes crazy. (Of course, Benny ''is'' a toon.)

(''Bullwinkle goes to back the car out of the parking space, but [[HadTheSillyThingInReverse puts it in drive]] instead, crashing head-on into a brick wall.'')\\

-->'''Obi-Wan:''' I don't mind flying -- ''(has to duck)'' -- but what you're doing is suicide!

** Han Solo counts as well - doing the Kessel Run in twelve parsecs and flying into a goddamn asteroid field to avoid TIE Fighters are insane by any measure.

* ''Film/{{Tron}}'': Kevin Flynn doesn't really know how to fly a Recognizer, and it shows. He bounces off canyon walls, takes out a bridge span, and ends up crashing it in the middle of town.
--> '''Flynn:''' Pretty good drivin', huh?
--> '''Bit:''' [[AC:no]]
--> '''Flynn:''' Who asked you?

* Creator/BruceWillis's character Korben Dallas in ''Film/TheFifthElement'' is introduced as such even ''before'' he gets behind the wheel via a phone call with his mechanic. ''In his first scene''. Fittingly, he's an ex-Starfighter pilot turned cab driver - in ''New York City''. There is a ChaseScene that show cases his driving "skills". And, like the Star Wars example above, driving in the future is a 3-d experience.

* James T. Kirk, in ''Film/StarTrek2009'', apparently learned how to do this when he was a kid in the rebooted universe (see the LiveActionTV section). He drives a vintage Corvette into an old quarry, while being chased by the futuristic Highway Patrol. He ''really'' didn't want his step-father to sell his dad's car.
* ''Film/CharliesAngels2000'': The first film opens with an EstablishingCharacterMoment for each character; Natalie is shown to be this - ''as far back as when she still had braces''.

-->'''Friday''': [''writing in his notebook''] Reckless endangerment of human life, [[FruitCart willful disregard for private property]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking failure to signal for a safe lane change]]...\\
'''Streebek''': [[SarcasmMode Yeah, he's really racking up the violations, isn't he]]?\\
'''Friday''': Not him, YOU. This is your one-way ticket back to civilian life, [[NameMcAdjective Mr. I-Like-To-Throw-The-Book-Out-The-Window]].\\
'''Streebek''': That sounds like a good idea. [''Throws notebook out the window.'']

* This trope sets in motion the plot of ''Film/DoctorStrange2016''. The accident that wrecks Strange's hands is entirely his own fault, seeing as he was speeding while driving at night, in the rain, while passing in a no pass zone on a blind curve and talking on the phone. The end credits include a warning about distracted driving.

* Film/TheTransporter qualifies given his ability to drive anything anywhere.
** In the second film, the Miami cops are watching a car chase on TV. Inspector Tarconi takes one look at the driving and realizes who it is.