Knife Expert Reacts to Our Favorite Knife Fights From The Movies!
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Adam Boyce from Spartan mode sat down with us to watch some of the most iconic knife fight scenes from the movies and to see if any of them apply to real world self defense applications.
0:00 Intro
0:40 John Wick 2
3:52 Commando
7:00 Captain America: The Winter Soldier
11:12 Under Siege
16:37 The Punisher
22:08 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
25:06 The Hunted
32:36 The Long Riders
35:08 Favorite Knife Scene
How did seagal convince ppl he was ever legit. That scene was hilarious
He definitely choreographed that🤣
He’s totally legit, or was. He was a master of Akido and made it popular.
How dare you.
Have you seen what he does to coffee tables??
Don't you dare disrespect the king like that. Blastomy! Ok ok. Him versus John Claud Van Dam . Let's have a civilized discussion
So happy you included 'The Hunted', that knife was definitely the hero of the movie. No joke, i watched that scene where del toro just makes a knife out of some random steel, and my first thought was: "Ok, now i have a hobby"
Same 🤣
Definitely an underrated film mate.
I came here to say this 😂
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If The Hunted wasn't included I'd click off immediately
@@zacinthewild yeah but watch Nutnfancy's take down of that knife....i agree with him, its Hollywood fantasy, not even that cool looking of a knife....the Rambo knife was way cooler in my opinion. born in 1980 so the 80s blades were part of my growing up. Even dressed up as Arnold from Commando when i was 8/9 for Halloween, knife, machine gun, vest, cammo, and everything!
The fight at the end of both Raid 2 and the end of the Revenant are brutal fights.
Truth!
Someone else mentioned Raid 2. I’ll have to check it out!
@@spartanmodellc Check out both The Raid 1&2, you won’t be disappointed!
The bus scene from Nobody (2019) tops it all for me, one hell of a scrap between a bunch of hoodlums and an old badass who hadn't fought in ages. Same people from John Wick worked on it and it's a blast, seeing that knife fight with my friends was awesome, even had us cheering.
Not only does the MC end up using a seatbelt to protect his palm to catch a knife, but he even bludgeoned someone's teeth out using his watch. He also unloads and drops his revolver at the start, and what happens with the gun later in the fight was solid.
Nobody was awesome I've never seen an action flick like that.
It had John Wick vibes but it definitely is more grounded in reality.
when he kicks the knife through the leg was nasty.
The Stallone and Arnold rivalry is 100% real. Not to long ago Stallone auctioned a signed Rambo knife for charity. Arnold made a video poking fun at Stallone by doing the same with an even bigger knife from Predator.
Love it!
That’s true but Arnold was just teasing him. They were big rivals back then, but they’re friends now.
Years ago I read a book called "Of Wolf and Iron" that has the best rules for knife fighting ever collected. To summarize...
1. Don't be the first to pull a knife, anyone who responds by pulling their own probably knows how to use it.
2. Anyone who pulls a knife on you is likely to have made that choice from experience.
3. The environment you're fighting in is trying to kill you. Chairs, stairs, bystanders and beehives will defeat your reflexes every time.
4. The best blade ever created is useless against a thrown rock, bottle, bat or a bullet.
5. The most important rule of knife fighting is FUCKING DON'T. Talk, run, grab anything else available to add range and space to disengage or get better weapons (or friends)
My dad had experience in real world situations and he told me " If a knife is involved, you will get cut! If your cut, your compromised, so eliminate the knife! " Sound advice in my opinion!
Everyone gets cut in a knife fight.
@@mcpheonixx A very wise old Polish man I knew used to say the perfect way to carry your fighting knife is clipped onto the bayonet lug of your M1 while it was fully loaded next to your seat in a tank while you operated the .50
A 6 to 9" fixed blade sheath knife has been the close range PDW of choice of humans for 3,000 years now for very good reasons but I'll just ignore all that practical history and defer to some *ucking contemporary moronic received wisdom based on what??
The best knife in 2' long, 1,2" brass or rebar rod. Anywhere you hit, the muscles are not working and possibly bone(s) are broken or shattered. Would say it works as a cold weapon shotgun.
I watched an interview with Schwarzenegger, and that's exactly what he said. He and Stallone went back and forth bigger gun, bigger knife.
In the John Wick clip, he didn't use the gun because he wanted to kill John wick with the knife. He was pissed at John for actions earlier in the movie, and it was personal.
My fave is Crocodile Dundee's "THIS is a knife!" scene
That is a great scene! 😂👊🏼
The Hunted was the movie that inspired me to start making blades, mostly cause I wanted a knife like that and wanted to make it myself. When I got around to it, some 12 years later, I was totally shocked to find out just how far from reality the knife making in the movie was, the fighting was a documentary compared to the "bladesmithing" :))))) Anyway inspiration doesn't need to come from reality, been making blades for 7 years now and loving it :)
The title sequence of "Conan the Barbarian" and the open-mould casting of a steel sword, surely beats that for accuracy? 😉
Really how did you expect Aaron to make his knife in those circumstances?
I like them trying to make it look like he found a good piece of scrap steel improvised a rough blade from it but they should of had him knap out a stone knife like LT did.
God Jones & del Toro knocked that shit out the park didn't they?
I still have my directors cut . My friend Chino took me to the directors viewing ,Ben and Tommy did some training for the movie here , Got to meet Tuhan and several others that I now know I was honored to meet . I wish I knew where Chino was as we lost track of each other . We went up to the Elwa to find some chert and stood in the tree that Ben stands on in the movie .
@@robdeskrd well ... the class actually did both , if you watch the bonus material on the CD you will see some of the rangers from striker brigade and some of the class sitting in a circle practicing knapping . But the steel blade segment was unfilmed and fewer students . Many masters were here in that time frame and there is a (reality) story preceding the UFC and this movie , also here in washington we have woods like yew and goats beard that are both heavy ,dense and weapon capable , a yew wood froe will chop and split ceder . It was used by natives forever.
Yah, The Hunted was pretty garbage.
Being an 80's kid, the Comando one is for sure THE knife scene that stuck in my head all my life.
That's a Jack Crain LSS. He also did the knives for Predator
Let's parsy.
The Man from Nowhere. For me, the best knife in a movie I've seen.
NEED to see "the man from nowhere" one of the best knife fights ever put to film
The Man from Nowhere final scene was the best knife fight.
Love the Gerber M2, my Father bought one while in the Marines for his deployment to Panama back in the late 80s. I carried it in 2003 in Iraq and it served me well, still have it and still super sharp.
The Gerber Mark 1 was for me, a more EDC type fighting knife.
There were so many clones of this knife back in the day.
The knife fight in "The Hitman" should have been on the list. I loved that one.
The videos of Keanu training and practicing in real life are as awe inspiring as the movies.
I'm surprised neither of you mentioned Eastern Promises. To me, that's pretty much the ultimate cinematic knife-fight.
Some great scenes there! I love John Wick but the Punisher was amazing. Also, hats off for including the Hunted. Another great movie. I had forgotten how stupid Under Siege was in almost every way.
Fun fact about the “Captain America vs. The Winter Soldier” fight is that is you pause any the part where he takes out the Gerber Mk2 you can see he also has a Benchmade SCOP right next to it!
He also carries two Gerber Tonto's at the small of his back and in the FATWS Disney+ show the Winter Soldier has unidentified knives in his boots.
The teeth disarmament is just something next level. In real life it would be a self inflicted Irish smile...
Big single edge fighting knives in the mid-1800s were often built to be held in conventional grip, but the sharp edge was facing up. They were used to stab someone in an upward motion in the gut and go up through the vital organs. Fighting like that was very effective up close and very difficult to block. That is one style of knife I haven't seen reproduced very often since most people would look at them and think that someone put the guard on the wrong way..
Extraction had a really long knife fight scene. I'm sort of surprised that wasn't in here.
I carried a Gerber Mk II for all my 8 years in the Infantry. Got it from Clothing Sales on post. Fantastic knife, but hard to sharpen. Worked awesome for cutting open MREs, and the saw blade worked great for cutting small saplings for camouflaging fighting positions.
Finally, a CZcams expert that knows how to accurately hold a Bowie knife!
Thank you Sir!
I enjoyed Under Seige when it came out. But I have to say. Watching that scene reminds me of our two cats doing the cat-boxing thing before they launch into the zoomies.
John Wick used a Douk Douk in part 3.The legendary knives used in the Algerian war.The Hunted is such a underrated movie
The Accountant with Ben Affleck has an interesting knife fight scene.
Realistic or not, loved the knife/tomahawk fight scene between Uncas and Magua in the end of Last of the Mohicans.
Something funny about the knife drop and catch from The Hunted, I used that move back in 2004 when my sister's boyfriend and I were having a friendly sparring match with wooden training knives.
He said that was the slickest thing he ever saw and I got him hooked onto that movie too.
Good times.
Great episode, loved Adam's commentary and insight. Appreciate that he spoke intelligently about knife fighting without glorifying knife fights and provided practical survival tips like walking away and de-escalation.
Thanks for the kind words. 👊🏼
With the Hunted, I always was amused by the probable reality of watching Benicio really struggle to get the knife back out of the tree and also Tommy Lee not being able to easily withdraw the knife from his arm as it catches on bone etc. lol…love that movie. It just has a no nonsense, adult approach that I really enjoy.
Korean movies have pretty cool fights. The Man from Nowhere has some over the top karambit (and not only) action but as far as the most realistic ones go I would probably go with the car scene from I Saw the Devil. It's a messy, fast and brutal scene that, while a bit over the top (maybe?), illustrates well how raw an actual knife fight would be. But of course, I love me some John Wick, Punisher (especially that prison scene), Raid or that bus scene from Nobody and such.
For me, who had a deal with knife fight, those knife fight scenes from "Gangs of New York" looks inpressive and quite realistic
Commando is my favorite movie. I used to go to my grandma's house on the weekend and she would watch Commando with me. God bless her.
The knife fight scene in extraction with Chris helmsworth is really good to... worth a watch
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Kill Bill 1&2 & The Raid 2 had some sick blade action going on.
'Under Siege' was the first time I heard the term Navy Seal. From then on I've been obsessed with learning all about them. No b.s., this fight scene changed my life.
Commando was so great, It's probably his funnest flick. If Predator was not absolute perfection, then commando would probably be my favorite Ahhh'Nold flick. I can't remember if I ever bought it on DVD. I know it's cheesy but it's so good.
Late 70’s I’m at the knife shop in the local mall, hanging out, the Cold Steel Tanto was new. Some guy and his wife comes in, he freaks out and wants to see it. He looks at me and the clerk and says “I study the killing arts.” Then proceeds to demonstrate how to stab when you’re being attacked by two people. We’re speechless. Then his wife says “Come on, Ninja breath, let’s go.” I could have died laughing. Learning how to knife fight seems like fun and good exercise but I’ll take the advice of the IDF guy that taught the first class ever took: If you can run away, run away!
"Olympus Has Fallen", the final fight scene. Even though it uses guns, knives, and fists, it's a very awesome knife fighting scene. And the finale is... brutal to say the least, albeit a bit over the top considering how the finishing move is made.
LOVE it (and truer words have never been spoken): "the best use of self defense ever....when you are able to talk your way out of it"...
The Debt Collector with Billy Connoly and Ken Stott has (in my memory) the most realistic knife fight ever.
Ice pick grip is still incredibly dangerous and lethal. Just watched a video the other day of a street murder. Two guys arguing and one had a knife in ice pick grip. Unarmed guy took his eyes off him for a second and knife guy jumped on him. Stabbed him 3-4 times in a second and then backed off. Dude bled to death while the knife guy fled the scene. Even if you have your own knife, I'd always recommend just leaving instead of fighting. Its never worth it.
Fun video and interesting to hear the pro perspective. My personal favorite and classic knife scene in a movie is in Crocodile Dundee when he pulls the bowie vs. the auto and says "That's not a knife; that's a knife!"
The best type of fight in that scene because it just scared the guy away.
And one of the most realistic way of winning a knife fight in the movies i remember. (not the cutting up the jacket of the criminal, but the idea of scaring away the guy)
Ive actually seen that one! Great scene! 😁👊🏼
I'm not sure if it was the first or second Crocodile Dundee movie, but when he goes to the gang's hideout to get their help, one of the guys made a comment about Mick's jacket, then asks him, "What do you think your chances of getting out of here alive are?" and Mick throws his knife, which sticks in the wooden beam just above the guy's head, and says, "Pretty good!"
@@ronstreet6706 think that's part 2 when he's sneaking in the mansion to save his woman.
The ending fight from Man From Nowhere, 100%! So epic.
Yeooo when I saw The Hunted here I was greatly excited… it’s one of my favorite films and largely underrated-- but with that trying looking up 3 South East Asian films: The Man From Nowhere and The Raid & The Raid 2- both films have very spectacular and amazingly choreographed knife fights-- appropriately done where the “hero” gets realistic cut up--
The Hunted was one of my favorite as a more "realistic" fight. The karambit fight in the Extraction was fun too.
The mark ll boot knife was my first knife as a teenager, 1991 ish, I loved that knife!!! Lost somewhere along the way of life…wish I still had that
One of the improvised disarms I did in a real situation, from stalemate, I bit the crap out of their thumb at the base and they dropped the knife. Not something I would suggest training much on or relying on but just keep it in the back of the mind.
I love how the expert is like, “I don’t watch movies” and Zac’s routinely referencing movies like, “it’s gotta be gory… you now like an 80s Schwarzenegger movie” and that’s “how he got his scars”.
For a great knife fighting movie you should check out "Exposure". It was filmed in Brazil in 1991 with stars Peter Coyote and Tcheky Karyo.
Damn I haven't seen that since I was a kid..I've looked for it but can't find it. I think it was a book first
@@dajo9339 The movie is based on the novel "High Art" by Rubem Fonseca. I bought a copy once, hoping it would have more details about the knife fights, but it didn't.
Back in the 90s, "Exposure" was frequently shown on the Showtime channel, that's where I first saw it. I bought the DVD off Amazon for $20. It's a Region 2 format DVD.
"Exposure" sometimes goes by the name, "A Grande Art".
@@proteus5 right on thanks for the info, yes i saw it on cable too. The fact as a 17yr old i was watching that instead of skinamax at 1am, probably a good predictor of my knife addiction.,🤔
High art for me has the best most accurate knife fight , the first time you see Karyo fight he is cool calm and its over in seconds.
That's the movie I was thinking of, too. It was the first time I ever saw knife instruction. And Tcheky Karyo was bad ass.
I love The Hunted, but as a blacksmith/blacksmith, the whole forging scene is almost unforgivable lol
This was great, Zac! Thanks! Loved hearing Adam’s take on these.
Partway through, I posted a variation of your quote about dying in the hospital. I’d heard a version of that as well. Then you said it, and I didn’t need to.
Very cool, thanks again.
Yellowstone when the character Lloyd casually flings a folding knife into the character Walker's chest. Its uh, impressive haha
It was damn polite of Tommy Lee Jones to let go of that knife as soon as Segal bit down on it.
We all know the best “knife” fight is in Indiana Jones Raiders.
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I’ve actually seen that one! Great scene! 🤣👊🏼
I used to watch that scene religiously as a kid and laugh uncontrollably at it.
Great job much needed vid u guys made.
Zac, you need to rewatch The Iron Mistress; you'll see the Bowie knife held the same way by Alan Ladd.
Fellas, this video was pure bloody joy. Both of your enthusiasm, and the combo of knife knowledge and knife fighting knowledge. There better be more! And as for my fave knife fight scene, the kitchen fight in The Raid 2 is exceptional.
Thanks! I’ll checkout Raid 2.
Yup, was gonna say exactly this, also my favourite knife fight scene (at least of those which came to mind).
Man from nowhere. The finale has the best knife fight ever
I LOVE this format! Great vid man!
Ok I just fast forward to it and thank God you added it!
Great video. I've always loved the scene from Winter Soldier. I also didn't notice until this video that the Winter Soldier is also carrying a Benchmade SOCP dagger as well.
Awesome video guys you know what we want and always deliver love it
I'd love to see another of these, if you ever do, my suggestions for movies would be "A Grande Arte" (1991), "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955), "Saving Private Ryan" (1998), "Eastern Promises" (2007), "Dune" (1984), "The Man from Nowhere" (2010), "SPL: Sha Po Lang" (2005) and "The Final Master" (2015).
Doesn't get more gangsta then James Dean putting in work during a High School field trip!!
Fun fact commando was Arnold’s nod to the 80’s crazy movie stuff, when you watch it with this in mind the self awareness of Arnold becomes super amazing
Love these types of expert reacts videos
Adam did a great job!
Really liked y'alls give and take and thought you did a great job of actually letting your guest speak.
Thanks!
Been watching most of your videos. Informative and fun. Subscribed, Thank you, Zac!!
Glad you’re digging them! Thanks for the sub🤘
Vernon Wells, the actor who played Bennett in Commando went on to play one of the best Power Rangers villain ever.
William Winder In the original Gibson Road Warrior. The crazy guy on the motorcycle, as far as I remember, that was also Wells.
The knife fight in The Hunted and The Punisher were my favorites. I liked that in The Hunted you saw both combatants getting cut. Sure it was embellished for film but getting cut in a knife fight is probably going to happen.
I was so happy that you included the knife fight from "The Longriders", as it was one of my favourite movies growing up!
This was fun. The best knife fight for me is the Adventures in Babysitting toe stab. It's as realistic as it gets. Lol
I’ve actually seen that one! But it’s been decades, I don’t remember that scene. I’ll check it out. 😁👊🏼
Just before the subway fight scene in John Wick 2, Common does run out of ammo
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At the beginning when he asked why use a knife when you have a gun. I’d assume it’s because he at least started out trying to avoid drawing too much attention. You could probably stab someone and walk off the subway. Opening fire would make it a little more difficult to stay “stealth”. So it does make sense why he started out with the knife
Just before that scene, I believe they were both "stealthily" firing silenced pistols at each other out in the open in the station. I assume they are either out of bullets, don't want to draw attention shooting in a confined area like you said, or it is a ritualistic combat since they are part of an assassin society that has a lot of rules and traditions that get expanded on in each film.
@@Fardawg I’m pretty sure they both had a few extra mags but I think it was a bit of everything mentioned here for sure
Zac episodes like this are the reason why I'm a Patreon supporter and subscribed w all alerts on. 🍻
Love this video! Plus I finally get to say "I KNOW HIM!!!" seeing Adam on her showing his expertise! :)
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The belt around the forearm made me smile, in medieval dagger manuals it’s not uncommon to see a coat or jacket quickly swirled around the free arm to try to provide some protection.
In "Eye of the Needle", Donald Sutherland's character kills several people with his cool out-the-front switchblade. They are not necessarily knife "fight" scenes, but are memorable none the less because the knife, and the way he carries it hidden inside his sleeve, are so cool.
the winter soldier actor actually can do that shit with his blade. he practiced all day for months. he said he loved it and would do it on his own time
Great commentary on the scenes from a professional who knows what it's like in the real world
If you have a Bowie knife or combat knife turning the knife spine towards the enemy and blade to you saves the edge of the knife if it’s slightly sharpened on the false edge you can cut or tear coming and going it’s said Jim Bowie fought that way also being shown by David Caradine
The ice pick grip, (Holding it reverse) is a legitimate strategy. It's not used correctly by movies obviously but it's a historically backed style. There are manuals from teachers of medieval combat that teach techniques for it. It's by no means meant to be the primary way to fight, but it is a thing. Modern Rogue channel has a learning knife fighting video on their channel with the historical weapons guild, which goes into some of it.
Those rondel daggers in particular are very well suited to be held in that grip. I suppose the knife itself might dictate how effective that grip would be, but you definitely see that grip used a lot in historical treatises for large knives and daggers. I cannot stand when movies do that reverse grip with sabres and swords though- it is as if someone watching said "ohh, if that grip is cool for a knife or dagger, then it must be extra cool if I have a character fight with their longsword in a reverse grip!"
saving private Ryan probably has the most brutally honest/hardest hitting knife scene
Oh hell yeah I second this.
If it is the scene I recall, absolutely. That may be too brutal to be approved by CZcams.
You guys really should have watched the part of the knife fight in Winter Soldier when he is stopped by Captain America's shield and drops the knife down into his other hand below the shield. It was one of the most amazing knife moves I've ever seen
my favorite knife fight quote is "Nobody wins a knife fight, you just survive, or not."
You should have included the scene from the" Accountant " Ben Affleck
That would have been a great one! That movie is a blast.
I know I'm late to the party, but has anyone ever heard of a movie called "Exposure" starring Peter Coyote? I've always considered it to be
to knife fighting what "Enter the Dragon" was to hand to hand combat. The story is gritty and engaging, the cinematography is captivating,
but I've never seen an analysis of the film by someone knowledgeable in knife fighting. I'd be very eager to hear commentary/analysis of
the film by someone familiar with the subject.
That movie was based on the book, High Art, by Rubem Fonseca. The knife Peter chose was a Randall, basically a custom military K-Bar. The thug that stabbed Peter was using a Spyderco Endura with a stainless steel handle and serrated blade. The technique the thug used to open his knife is the Spyderco drop, you hold the blade by the hole and snap the handle down into your hand. I don't remember what kind of knife the teacher used, maybe a Randall?
J T Edson referred to the Green River Knife having the name on the blade and when you pushed the blade all the way in you had stabbed your opponent all the way up to the Green River. That made me want to buy one of those knives.
In that first clip, both combatants are out of ammo, they'd spent the five minutes leading up to the fight shooting at each other.
If you guys have another Movie Knife Series, I highly recommend the Hong Kong movie SPL: Sha Po Lang, in english its called Killzone. The best choreographed knife fight in cinema imho. Some of the moves were improvised as well on the fly. For me, that was peak Donnie Yen and Wu Jing. Also thank you for the amazing content.
No, just to flashy!
I loved this video. Great fight scenes and analysis. My favorite was the Winter Soldier scene.
Such a good scene!
@@zacinthewild there's an awesome knife fight on the movie Extraction with Chris Hemsworth. Check it out. He uses a Karambit vs a guy with a sort of Ka Bar knife. Cool scene and great movie
Been watching Neeves knives reaction videos like this! So fun to watch
Hi Zac & Jamie! Another awesome video! When you asked what your famous knife scene are I choose John Wick2 which I sent to you!
Can you do a video on Knife & Ax throwing?
This was awesome! You should make this a regular series. You could critique axe scenes, chainsaw scenes, hammer scenes, etc. Or common EDC items used as weapons in movies like the pen/pencil stab kills in 'Casino', 'The Dark Knight, 'The Bournes Identity', 'John Wick 2', etc. I'm sure there's a para cord strangle kill scene out there somewhere lol.
Brilliant idea!
Not paracord but Jet Li does strangle a dude with custom prayer beads in Lethal Weapon 4 iirc.
That was great Zac!
That fight scene in the punisher was awesome
The whole series was full of them and badass.
Was surprised that Rocky Handsome knife fight wasn't on this. That's a crazy knife fight.
you gotta watch the raid. that movie has the single best knife fight ever shot. I’m shocked its not in this video