– Boom. I open up, I slash the throat. Welcome back to another
episode of Scenic Fights, Fight Scene Breakdown. I'm Logan Lo. I'm Chad Vázquez. And today we're finally getting
to a fight scene that has been requested repeatedly for us: Extraction (2020) with Chris Hemsworth. Who plays Tyler Rake and Indian actor, Randeep Hooda who plays Saju. Alright, Chad, you're ready for this? – Let's do it.
– Let's do it. – [Chad] So, this is
coming from a huge chase that was just happening – Get that gun, get that gun Rake. You got it, nope!
– Yep. No gun for you. – Boom.
– Charging. – [Logan] Saju's trying
to press the attack. So here we have Rake doing
some sort of control, it's not a good grip, and then Saju, he was able to twist out and get to a number eight position and just do double force. But again, you know, I feel that he should have tried to extricate himself and then continue. So let's break that down
for something different that Saju could have done to attack Rake in that position. In this particular scene. Rake stops it with a thumb down. Now Chad, hold on as hard as you can. – Yep. – Alright. I believe so much in my ability to get out of this. I'm going to do it in slow motion. Don't allow me out.
– Yep.
So he's holding on, he's holding on, I'm out. – Yeah. There's my number eight. Rake is done, and that would have happened
in less than a second. Let's assume, arguendo, however that it worked. Here we go again. We go. I get out, and then I attack with a number eight. Stab. Once again, Rake stops me with an improper 2-on-1. If you want to see a proper two on one, see our award-winning video: The Hunted (2003). I'm going to get out slowly. I would eviscerate here and go for that, But because they're wearing body armor… Here… Armpit, here, slash, stab… Fight is done. What would you do, to get out as a grappler? – So here's my opinion on what Rake could've done to get out of that situation. So again, we're assuming there's a wall here. Rake is blocking the knife arm. Saju is leaning his way towards Rake and Rake's pinned by a wall.
So, what's a good strategy here? Turn the left arm into an overhook, and applying downward
pressure to the shoulder, which is referred to a
wrestling as a whizzer. Now the right hand, I'm going to turn Logan around. So you can see what my
right hand is doing. I would try and get a wrist
control as soon as possible, probably even an inside
wrist control, like so. Will that grip stay there long? No. So I have to act quickly. Do you notice that Saju's weight is mostly on Rake's right side? Which means that I can step out and putting heavy shoulder pressure immediately. So if I was Rake here putting pressure, like so, and now using my left leg to step out and circle… his opponent, right into the wall and re-pinning him. From there, if the roles change now, he could have the option of
disengaging and getting out.
That's something that
I could see Rake doing, for this situation. – So in this, none of these moves make logical fight sense in the reality that we live in. In Hollywood, yeah, but in this instance, no. – [Chad] So, he's trying to punch the body armor. I don't know if he'd feel that if there is body armor. – [Logan] Well, someone's feeling that. [Chad] That's right in the face.
Yeah, there's no body armor there. – So Saju just took three heavy Thor quality punches, right to the face. Chad, what's happening to
these two guys right now? What's happening with Rake's
hand and what's happening with Saju's head? Like, should this continue at this point? – Well, I'd imagine. It seems like he's holding his forearm and connecting. If they land it clearly
on the cheek, or jaw, that should be a possible
knockout or drop down. And also it's tough to punch a face without any protection – Right. with a fist, so… There is a high risk
of breaking your hand. – Okay. – Right? So possibly he, there's definitely must be a fracture. If there was a strong
connection to the bone, with three good solid hits like that. – Now, when you say fracture, are you talking about a fracture for Rake or Saju? – Possibly both guys, but I was referring more
to Rake's situation. – Really? – With his hand. But I mean, again, if
they're landing clearly, and they're very heavy hits, I wouldn't be surprised if
there's probably a fracture within the jaw.
– Gotcha. All right. Rake suddenly has a weapon. That is really cool. Deployment of a weapon is huge. And there are many martial
artists who, you know, they practice with pistols, or rifles, or with edged weapons,
or with blunt weapons. How to deploy the weapon quickly and efficiently. One of the jokes is, of
people that trained in knife fighting. They're like, "Oh, so where do you keep your knife?" "Oh, I keep it in my trunk, in my car." Well, you're here indoors. You know? So no weapon is useful if you
can't deploy it quickly, and efficiently, and effectively,
when you need it. This, an amazing example. In fact, it looks like
sleight of hand to me. Cause, one minute Rake
does not have a weapon. Bam. Suddenly he has a weapon. For me, the best scene
in this whole fight. Man. You know, if Thor's tired, anyone's tired. All right, so we have a straight edge against a karambit. Oh, these guys are going for going for it. Going high. He's faking. Coming in, just wild shots. They're both really acting like they haven't had a lot
of weapons training.
People wanted us to do the scene because it's a weapons fight, but to be more accurate, it's a fight with weapons. What do I mean by that? They're fighting and they have weapons, but are they fighting with the weapon? And if you look at Rake, there's a lot of boxing happening. You're going to see like
a little parry by Rake, for example. Saju, does a stab, and then just a little parry. That, actually, is very apropos. However, it's not knife work. What would make it more
knife work would be: he comes in with a stab.
I can step off to the side and note that as I do the
push-off with the weapon, because of the curvature of the blade, I'm pinning this against his body. I then control the elbow. And because this is a karambit,
with a retention ring, boom, I open up, I slash the throat. Notice I've taken the back at this point. I can take the back. That would've made more sense with the weapon. And that's what I mean by
this is a fight with weapons rather than a weapons fight, because there are knife
centric things they could do that we're not seeing here. What's another option, because he has a karambit. He comes in with a large
loop, so I pass underneath. Again, the curvature of the karambit. I slash the belly. I come in, I take the back and then I can either slash the throat this way, or deploy slash throat that way. Either way.
My job is to flank. When you're in violence, you do not want to be in the blender. And you'll note, each
time these guys reset when they're in the blender. One of these two highly trained people, Rake or Saju, should have flanked That didn't happen. Bam, tie up, boom, catch. So Rake just did a disarm. That is a really cool, knife strip. And Chad, we actually saw this
exact same weapon strip in Donnie Yen's Kill Zone (2005). – Yes. – You know what? We're going to briefly go
through that, one more time. Saju is coming in with a number one, but there's a slip by Rake.
And Rake comes in with
his own number five stab, which is stopped by Saju. Rake then opens up Saju and then knees into the body. Causing Saju to step back. Now he does the same strip that we saw in Donnie Yen's Kill Zone (2005). Except with a knife instead of a baton. Note that it's a little
bit more difficult, the weapon's smaller,
but can still be done. He comes on the outside and it looks like he's
taking the punyo part, which is the end part of the knife, and pulls it to the side. Disarming Saju. Comes in, with an inside kick, boom, a big left cross, bam, and then finishes with a teep. And as Rake is about to make, Saju regret his life's choices. Rake gets hit by a car. You sure you wanna do the car hit? – Maybe next time. Yeah. – All right. So that was the disarm, and that was this last
scene from Extraction. I have to say that I had lots of high hopes
for this particular scene. In fact, I really
enjoyed the movie itself. I thought the movie was pretty good, but honestly there was
a lot to be desired.
Was it a weapons fight? It was a fight with weapons. It looks like two boxers
that happened to have a straight edged weapon and a karambit. I did like the disarm. That was excellent. And also the karambit deployment was one of the coolest
deployments I've ever seen because it was almost like magic. In one moment, no knife, in the next moment, knife.
That was really cool. Unfortunately, those two moments were
not good enough to redeem the entire scene. So I'm afraid I have to give this a C minus. Sorry Thor..