Shootouts

"Reservoir Dogs" (1992)

The Mexican stand-off is a gunfight variation that proves fewer combatants—two or three people, with guns aimed at each other in a precarious stalemate—heightens the who-will-perish tension. In the concluding face-off of Quentin Tarantino's heist movie, the devious twist is that a trio of firearms go off in the same instant.