Best Knife Fight Scenes in the Movies

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i agree with crickett. i guess not to many have seen exposure. i would buy it if i could find it. last two times i have seen this flick was on bravo
 
I think the best movie knife fight scene was in the film "Young Guns 2",where Dave Rudabaugh(Christian Slater) and Chavez fights in the dessert at the Indian burrial site. Dave uses a bowie knife which he stabs right through Chavez fore arm,and Chavez carries a knife which looks like it has two blades.It has a thin handle with which he spinns the knife between his fingers,so it at least looks like it has two blades,and with this knife Chavez slashes Rudabaughs belly.Chavez,played by Lou Daimond Philips,is realy handy with knives in the Young Guns movies! He is very keen with throwing knives also.

Manowar
 
Very good fight scenes all. I've seen most & plan to see Kill Bill this weekend, but what struck me about Exposure was the realisim that went into the knife fighting scenes. Right down to the training. I found out later that the knife stuff was choreographed by Christopher Kent. I like realisim & this movie had plenty. Though the plot was'nt about kinves themselves, they played a Major role in it. Too bad it's hard to find, cause it IS a classic.
 
Just had another thought (2 in one day!!) - though the movies involved swords. How about "By the Sword" with Eric Roberts and F. Murray Abraham. Terrific and relatively low-key (read: unseen) movie. I can't say how accurate the final fight was, but liked the whole show and there are some good training scenes here. And then there's that great train fight scene in The Hunted with Christopher Lambert (there's another movie by this name out there...so be sure to see/get the one with Lambert )! Of course, these aren't knives, but what the heck! Pretty soon I'll be thinking of knife fights again and then of James Dean at the Observatory in LA in Rebel Without a Cause...
 
"Blinker "- the movie you're thinking of is the one I mentioned, "The Long Riders."

Just went out and rented the "Hunted" on the recommendations here. Will try to pick up some of the others that I haven't seen ever or haven't seen in awhile as time permits.

Oh yeah, and "blastjv", that "West Side Story" crack from you is pretty much what I expected. It really had me laughing.:D
 
Ever see "Knights"?

Lance Henrikson, Kathy Long, and Kris Kristofferson in one knife fight after another for about the entire movie.
 
Cricket, my vote also goes to "Exposure" (or "High art" in other countries).
Knife training scenes by Peter Coyote, and Tcheky Karyo were far more impressive than any fight scenes! First Peter Coyote was given a scale, then knife (Randall #14), and torch. The training was harder than what Nikita was given from Tcheky Karyo in "le femme Nikita", still focusing knife fight only.
 
Kill Bill has some of the most graphic fight scenes I have ever witnessed. I'm amazed that the MPAA let it through with an R.
When Uma Thurman goes after Luci Lui in the restaurant, it thinks that cinematic perfection.
 
I cast my vote with lsstaipei and manowar669. The knife fighting scenes in Saving Private Ryan haunted me for months.

For comedic sword fights, I always like watching The Princess Bride. For non-comedic, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
 
I grew up in a really "good" neighborhood.Lots of kids carried home-made daggers,and I witnessed a few fights in which daggers were used.I even witnessed a samurai sword fight about 20 years ago.At that
time samurai swords were still popular between local gangsters.A lot of blood,but nobody died.Strangely,the fight in Saving Private Ryan disturbed me much more than the above experience.
 
This goe back quite a ways. But my favorite knife fight scenes are from 2 different older movies. 1st) The knife fight scene in Hondo. John Wayne and an Apache brave. The second if with Alan Ladd in the Iron Mistress. Ladd plays Jim Bowie. Not all historically corrct but cool movie.
 
Best knife fight scene? In Exposure (High Art) when the character, Hermes is attacked in a courtyard. Peter Coyote's character shouts a warning. Most disturbing knife fighting scene? I agree with many here...Saving Private Ryan. Hard to forget those images.

Isstaipei, I remember being aware of the gangster affinity for swords back in the late 70's. What I remember more was the way every cab driver had a sharp screwdriver ready for action. Do you remember the cabbie who used his screwdriver to kill the kungfu movie star on Linshen north road back in 1977 or 78? I think he was "defending the honor" of a couple young women. Sorry all..off topic.
 
I have to go with Isstaipei on this one. The scene in "Saving Private Ryan" where the jewish American soldier is grappeling with the German soldier over the bayonet. The German is telling him to just hold still and take, it as he slowly pushes the bayonet into the Americans' chest. I had no idea what he was saying until my wife translated it. (She's a German herself).
 
Apologise for bringing this very old thread up.....

But I've just watched a Hong Kong movie with the best knife/baton fight scene in history. "SPL" starred Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung and Jing Wu (some Chinese martial arts champion) and it's a pretty intense movie.

Granted that Donnie spent 70% of his on-screen time posing, the fight scenes more than make up for it.

Highly recommended for the fights!
 
I'd say Kill Bill was cool, but The Hunted was more realistic. I can still remember the crowd gasping at the fight scene at the end. I think I saw a couple of people crying and one person looked like they were gonna hurl. Definitely the most realistic I've ever seen in the movies.

-Anthony
 
"The Patriot".
Mel Gibson goes berserk and outright butchers about 6 british soldiers with a hawk and a knife.One of the bloodiest hand to hand battles I've witnessed on film.
 
"The Hunted" had some of the most realistic moves I've ever seen in a Hollywood film. There also was a good scene near the end of "Windtalkers" where this Navajo fella gets rushed by enemy soldiers and takes most of 'em out with a Bowie knife before being mortally wounded (then fragged).

Oh, that movie "Exposure", starring Peter Coyote? (AKA: "The Knife Fighter", "High Art" -- 1991) . . . impossible to find. Neither Amazon nor Netflix has it in their database. :mad:
 
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