- 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.
- [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.