By Peter Covino
Entertainment Editor

The web site Complex.com is a great place to stop if you've got a few minutes to kill.

Especially when the topic is The 50 Most Memorable Movie Assassinations.

The pop culture site has lists and guides for just about everything including the recent A Complete Guide to Seinfeld's Sneakers. And yes, that is exactly what you think it is: a list of  Jerry Seinfeld's most impactful sneakers that he wore during the show's run. Number 1, by the way, is his Nike Driving Force Low Royal Blue/White sneakers that he wore on the very first episode.

Other recent efforts on the website include The 15 Most Obnoxious Movie Animals (the winner, the cockroaches in Joe's Apartment (1996). Marmaduke in Marmaduke (2010) placed second. The much maligned Garfield could do no better than No. 6 for his appearance in Garfield: The Movie (2004).

But choosing annoying animated movie animals is almost too easy: Chipmunks or Yogi Bear anyone?

Let's move onto that list I can more readily identify with: Movie Assassinations.

The field is wide open when it comes to murder in the movies, but this is sort of a specific list. Psycho is out. So are all the Nightmare movies and Halloween and Friday the 13th.

Only films where a political figure or some other prominent person is killed suddenly or by secret attack can be considered.

So what do you think? What is the No. 1 film assassination (at least in the website's opinion) in all of movie history?

Personally I would go with the climax scene in The Godfather (1972) where Moe Green, Barzini and Philip Tattaglia all die by way of gunshots (the Moe Green Special is particularly memorable), courtesy of Michael Corleone's button men.

And running a close second: when Bonnie and Clyde are blissfully enjoying a sunny day on a country road and die in a hailstorm of bullets, in slow motion, in Bonnie & Clyde (1967).

Both films do rank pretty high up their in the Complex.com list. The Godfather is No. 2 (Sonny Corleone's causeway tollbooth  assassination as well as as Michael's cold-blooded killing of Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey in the Italian restaurant are also in the top 15. Add Vito Corleone's assassination of local mob boss Don Fanucci in The Godfather Part II,   No. 7 in the list  and Francis Ford Coppola has got a monopoly in this assassination business.) And Bonnie & Clyde are a deserved No. 2.

Other great assassinations in the movies include Colonel Kurtz' demise (he was sliced and stabbed with a machete) in (hello again, Francis) Apocalypse Now (1979) and gang leader Cyrus in The Warriors (1979).

The number one film on the list: the assassination of Tony Montana in Scarface (1983) by dozens of Alejandro Sosa's henchmen. Cinematically, I don't think this is number one, but it certainly does have its appeal: getting killed by a large army of men and then falling to his death in a water fountain. And as Complex.com thoughtfully points out, Tony is so high on cocaine, he probably doesn't even feel it.

The lesson learned here, Complex.com says: Don't do drugs. And always keep an M-16 grenade launcher handy.

The top 50 list also features some standard political assassinations, via the movies, including John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald in J.F.K., Harvey Milk in Milk and Malcolm X in Malcolm X.  

For a complete look at the top assassinations at the movies (the website also includes video trailers) go to http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2011/04/50-most-memorable-movie-assassinations.