If you want to see realistic knife action and learn something. Watch "The Hunted" with Tommy Lee Jones. He plays a character based on Tom Brown. This is a true knife movie.
Could not disagree more.
1.) That
thing Del Toro was using is not a fighting knife.
2.) Tom Brown is a tool who lives in New Jersey, an area known more for its toxic waste dumps than wilderness.
3.) After Tom Kier, the Sayoc Kali guru who was advising the set got more popular than Tom, Tom had him shown the door. The end result is pure crap, and not representative of SK.
After seeing the previews for this movie, I really thought it would be epic. It sucked. Sucked as badly as anything can suck. I was left thinking "Now why in the hell, with all the competent blade instruction now around, would they get some half-assed, Hollywood styled garbage like this??" I did some research afterwards, and discovered that the system in question was Sayoc Kali. I was thinking "Man. That Sayoc Kali stuff... what the hell is it?? It's weak." Then, I read an interview with Tom Kier in realfighting. As usual, Tom set himself up as something he was not, in this case a knife-fighting expert. Of course he is not, so he brought in outside help in the form of Mr. Kier. Long story short, Kier struck up a friendship with Del Toro, and started showing up Brown on the set, so was sent packing.
Dunno how many of you remember back in the mid-80s sometime, when the two self-styled mountain men in Montana killed a resort worker, and took another one as a "bride" for the son. A lengthy manhunt ensued, and at one point Tom Brown was brought in. I wish I still had the book, which was about the local sherrif on the case, the guy who eventually brought the fugitives in. The account of Mr. Brown's involvement would be pure comedy were it not so pathetic.
This stuff is typical in some movies though and makes them kind of funny.
