10 Opening Scenes That Are Almost Perfect

A good opening scene is a necessity if you want the rest of the movie to be good, for obvious reasons. You could technically win someone over after a messy opening, but it would be hard, and the only real examples are when the messiness is intentional in a way that makes sense once more of the movie has played out (think One Cut of the Dead, which has an extended opening sequence that feels amateurish, but then the rest of the movie makes clear why it felt that way, and then that whole stretch of the film works in hindsight).