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Bruce Willis hates Ben Affleck
The Background: As we're introduced to the main characters on an oil rig, we soon discover that AJ (Ben Affleck) is secretly dating his boss's daughter (Liv Tyler). So, when that boss, Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) finds out, he grabs his shotgun and goes hunting. On a highly flammable oil rig.
Drug dealers busted
The Background: While hunting for leads, Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) are pointed in the direction of a drug dealer's house. When they arrive, they get a bit of a hostile welcome, as a number of gang members open fire the two cops.
The gang members don't last long, as Lowrey uses a variety of techniques to shoot through and around the walls. Having said that, the destruction of the house may have been vast, but it was already in a state of disrepair to begin with.
Asteroid destroyed
The Background: The finale of Armageddon . When the team find out that they can't remotely detonate the asteroid, one of them must stay behind and detonate it on site, and it's A.J. who draws the short straw.
The Destruction: A whole asteroid and Bruce Willis. We aren't sure which one is harder to kill after seeing all of the Die Hard films, but it makes for a beautiful spectacle as a ring of blue light is emitted from the exploding rock.
Scorponok attacks
The Background: After escaping an attack on their base, the Navy SEALs team are ambushed in the desert by the Decepticon, Scorponok.
The Destruction: A small village in the Middle East takes the brunt of the destruction, as the SEALs fire on Scorponok and call in an airstrike to destroy him once and for all.
Intersection shootout
The Background: Syd (Gabrielle Union) is on the run and crashes in the middle of an intersection. On one side are a number of gang members and on the other side, the police fight against them.
The Destruction: Cars, gang members, and a tailback that doesn't bear thinking about. The shoot-out lasts until those involved take off for an equally destructive car chase.
KKK shootout
The Background: Bad Boys 2 opens on this Ku Klux Klan meeting, where our heroes Mike and Marcus are undercover.
The Destruction: Martin Lawrence's bumcheek takes a bullet and provides some 'humour' throughout the film. The KKK get wiped out, plenty of barrels get blown up, and Will Smith destroys the floor as he takes a twin-gunned leap through the air.
Transformer destroys US forces base
The Background: The film opens with this attack on US soil, kicking off the battle between humans and robots.
The Destruction: Big. The Transformer takes out a whole base, including planes, tanks, armoured vehicles, everything. They do, however, manage to stop the shapeshifting Decepticon from stealing all their information by cutting the hard-line.
Hangar shootout
The Background: Julie (Tea Leoni) has been kidnapped by Fouchet (Tcheky Karyo), the film's key villain.
The Destruction: Most of the hangar in the airfield gets taken out. Barrels are destroyed, platforms are well-placed for stuntmen to fall off, cars are written off: it's chaos. Once the dust settles, Fouchet takes off with Julie and Lowrey and Burnett give chase.
Egyptian battle
The Background: Optimus Prime is dead, for the time-being, and Sam and Mikaela have the Matrix of Leadership in a bag and the Decepticons on their tail.
The Destruction: Although most of the setting is already either destroyed or in disrepair, Michael Bay makes a solid attempt at razing what is left, which includes a whole pyramid and an ancient Egyptian tomb.
He certainly won't become a member of The National Trust at this rate.
Freeway car chase
The Background: Jordan Two Delta (Scarlett Johansson) and Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) have managed to get away from their clone facility and are on their way to escaping, when they hitch a ride on a lorry transporting giant metal train wheels.
The Destruction: Each of the train wheels weighs around a ton, so when they're released they take out a car at a time.
Around seven cars are wiped out by the giant, bouncing dumb-bells, plus one car is sliced clean in half by a sheet of metal.
An armoured car gets flipped front-ways, three years before Christopher Nolan flipped a whole lorry in The Dark Knight .
Destruction of Cuban slums
The Background: After the destruction of his mansion, Johnny Tapia (Jordi Molla) takes off into the slums of Cuba.
The Destruction: The living space of an entire community is wiped out in one fell swoop. The Hummer drives straight through home, after home taking out all of the houses and sending the odd explosion into the air.
Meteors destroy New York
The Background: There's an asteroid heading for Earth to end the world and to show off what it can do, the film kicks off with a meteor shower on New York which makes a solid attempt at re-modelling the city.
The Empire State Building gets a particularly gnarly take-down as its top half comes flying towards the ground like a spear. In between, cars get flipped all over the place and skyscrapers are peppered with meteorological buckshot.
Battle of Mission City
The Background: Megatron has been unfrozen by his Decepticon cohorts and escaped from his prison of ice, and now he's heading towards Mission City on the hunt for Sam Witwicky and his Allspark.
The Destruction: One of Michael Bay's biggest set-pieces, with an equally big destruction total: early every street is going to need a re-surfacing.
Many of the buildings in the area are reduced to rubble: one in particular has an Optimus Prime/Megatron fly-through. Six transformers in total are destroyed in the battle, and many cars and planes are taken out. An absolute mess.
Assault on a Cuban mansion
The Background: Marcus Burnett's sister and Mike Lowrey's girlfriend have been kidnapped by Johnny Tapia (Jordi Molla) after the latter is uncovered as an DEA agent.
The Destruction: Devastating. A remote-controlled car, a security post, some ornate walls, bits of swimming pool and an old woman's face are destroyed, and finally the mansion itself is blown up in a sea of machine gun fire.
