- Welcome back to another episode of "Scenic Fights,"
- Fight Scene Breakdown!
- I'm Logan Lo. - And I'm Pak.
- Pak, you were supposed to take care of Chad during
"The God of High School" Breakdown, not this one.
Okay! Makes sense.
Today, we're breaking down "The Killer."
- Starring, my big homie, Jang Hyuk,
which is now in theaters so you better watch it now.
And if you're from the future,
be sure to check it out on your favorite streaming platform.
- Pak, how'd you even get this? It's not even out yet.
- It's the Korean connection, baby.
- Okay, let's go.
- Oh, five shots point black. (Logan groans)
Dodges that. Nice front roll.
- A lot of like "John Wick" qualities to this.
Coloring and kind of the action scenes.
- [Pak] Yeah in every Korean gangster movie,
it has this kind of hallway scene.
Ooh, nice head movement.
- [Logan] I should watch more Korean gangster films.
- Ooh, Flushing front kick.
Throws the hatchet, oh, great aim.
- Icepick grip, nice.
Good attack to the extremities.
All right, we saw this in, "The Man From Nowhere,"
melee scene where he uses a body as an obstruction.
In this slip, he spins around and attacks the guy's kidney.
Slip, duck. Looks like he attacks behind the knee.
Nice wrap.
- [Pak] He's got impeccable head movement.
- Impeccable.
Okay, that's our first, number eight and number nine attack,
but with an icepick grip.
It's different.
- Ippon. - Ooh, that's brutal.
And he slipped. Get up, man, get up.
Ooh, he doesn't need to get up.
- Big ax coming out. - Oh, cold blooded.
- That is gross. - That's how you end a fight.
- Your people make cool movies, I gotta say.
- It's my boy Jang Hyuk.
- One of the things that we saw was we saw
a bunch of slips.
That was really cool.
We should definitely talk about that.
One nice thing about this was it kind of called back
to "The Man From Nowhere," where they used
the other person as a human shield.
Really cool.
Yeah that's my favorite movie!
What he said.
You know, honestly, you can tell that Jang Hyuk actually
got some good training here.
I like that his choice of the icepick grip,
'cause he knew that it was gonna be close quarter combat.
And there was a duck under, to a spin to the back.
We'll talk about that as well.
One thing that we had talked about before
was the number eight and the number nine stab with a knife
but when it's in a hammer grip.
When it's in a hammer grip, they're stabs.
But here, the eight and nine in an icepick grip,
at least in my system, they're slashes.
We're gonna break that down.
And this is a great scene to do it in.
- It's a truly amazing movie with incredible fight scenes.
- I can tell. Let's break this down.
- Let's get it.
- So in this first exchange,
Jang Hyuk does a really cool slip protecting himself
with his right hand.
Comes across, grabs the forearm, bends the assailant's arm,
does a slash to the throat and continues on his way.
That was good.
What I would've preferred is the same slip.
Instead of grabbing the forearm, grabbing the hand.
There's that arm bend.
I would come back and take that half second
to do a disarm.
Why? Because I never want the other person to have a weapon.
I wanna be the only person that has a weapon
in a weapon's exchange.
I would then do a slash to the throat, come around,
and then do a stab to the body and then I go on my way.
You'll notice that I did three strikes.
I did a slash to the crook of the elbow.
I did a slash to the throat.
I did a pass and a stab to the belly before I left.
That's three strikes instead of just one.
In this scene, I guess Jang Hyuk is just that good
at what he does that just needs one strike.
For someone like me, I like to make sure.
I like to dot all my I's, cross all my T's.
I wanna make sure the guy's done.
So when I turn my back to him,
he's not gonna come back and attack me.
That's my main concern.
That once I turn my back to him,
I get attacked from the rear.
I never wanna give up a flank,
'cause I have a lot of other people to deal with.
So in this second exchange, Jang Hyuk does the same slip.
He comes across and then instead of slashing to the throat,
he pushes into the throat, pushing the assailant back,
using him as a guard and a shield against
the other assailants.
And he used that assailant to exit out
of the room relatively safely.
I mean, he still had to worry about being flanked,
which is kind of what happened, but better than nothing.
Here, Jang Hyuk is facing multiple assailants
and he has to be quick on his feet.
For this next scene, because it's a melee scene
with multiple attackers we have Chad back from the dead.
Chad is gonna be playing the assailant that comes in
with essentially a straight thrust to the head.
He comes in, ducks under, comes around,
and then does a kidney shot.
Honestly, I really like kidney shots because they
are definitely fight finishers.
After he does this, he immediately his attention to
a straight coming in from the other side.
Again, same thing.
He does a arm bend, comes across here.
Notice that another assailant comes in with a hatchet.
As he comes in with the hatchet,
he ducks under and goes directly to
the second assailant inside of the knee slashing that.
And then turns his attention to the first assailant,
attacking him at the fold of the elbow in the same manner.
Honestly, I love this scene because it's a true melee scene.
We have multiple attackers all attacking relatively
at the same time.
And also, Jang Hyuk is not headhunting or body hunting.
He's attacking whatever comes his way,
which is what I would do in a real fight.
Honestly, great scene.
Now, we're about to talk about our first icepick grip,
eight and nine.
If you recall, when we were talking about, "The Punisher,"
we did the eight and nine as stabs.
Here, in an icepick grip, the eight and nine is a slash,
generally to the throat.
In this particular scene, the assailant's coming in
with a straight thrust.
He comes in, captures with his left hand.
Slashing up, then attacking the forearm.
Comes across then he does his number eight
to the throat.
Then, the number nine.
And then, that finishes the fight.
Excellent work with the icepick grip.
Pak, if this is the caliber of Korean action films,
you gotta send more to me, man.
- It's my people.
- What I liked the most about it
was the good use of targeting.
Again, he wasn't body hunting, he wasn't headhunting.
He was attacking whatever came his way.
Good attacking of the folds. Exactly what I would do.
So I give it a solid A-.
- And Jang Hyuk looked impeccable
in all of his action scenes.
His focus, his precision, how lethal he is,
- What he said.