Who Did Movie Knives Better? “First Blood” vs. “The Hunted”
Here’s a look at a movie knife classic, First Blood, and a movie that tried to rip off Rambo. Spoiler alert: ripping off Rambo is never a good idea. Knife Use in First Blood: Rambo-esque, but Not Ridiculous After I saw First Blood, the first Rambo movie, some buddies and I started to look at it with a critical, knife-centric eye. Nothing that Rambo does in the movie is impossible. Some of the feats require a very well-trained man who’s in excellent physical condition, not to mention one who’s stubborn as hell. The feats also require a great deal of luck. I’ve always been critical of fight sequences where the hero beats up 10-15 opponents all at one time. You can see the bad guys hanging back, each waiting his turn. That doesn’t happen in real life. However, in First Blood, each person Rambo fights is physically isolated, so Rambo can take each one on one-on-one. It could work that way. The movie was very well thought out choreographically. At one point Rambo leaps from a cliff and fall...