Just watched it for the first time since I saw it in the theater.
A great role for Benicio Del Toro. A cool, quiet, deadly mother f*cker. His eyes are his biggest attribute.
Such a cool movie, even though toward the end there were a few parts that were a little out there... mainly the quick fabrication of a razor sharp knife AND setting a trap with two logs (with spikes sticking out of them) suspended from trees. Man, that guy can work fast as hell. All this in the matter of what... ten minutes? If you add the deleted scene of the "boulder trap" it make it even more ridiculous. But putting those typical Hollywood additions to an otherwise cool movie, I'd say this flick was definitely worth checking out. I only wish this character could have been used in a series of movie. I'd love to see Aaron Hallam on some of his other kill-missions.
The knife fighting was pretty cool
Both Aaron and L.T. use a form of martial arts called Sayoc Kali which is mostly knife fighting, and originated in the Philippines.
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The knife he had was pretty cool as well.
The knife used by Hallam (Benicio Del Toro) throughout most of the movie is a Beck Wilderness Survival Knife, designed by Tom Brown (a tracker/survival expert who was a technical advisor on this feature) and constructed by David Beck.
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