A Mexican standoff is a situation in which three or more people are all pointing their guns (or other weapons) at each other. If anyone shoots, they will all die but usually someone loses their nerve and a shoot-out occurs.
Which of these Mexican standoffs from a film first comes to mind?
Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Naomie Harris, Martin Klebba, Keira Knightley, and Kevin McNally in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)