The Hunted (2003)

This film, directed by William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio del Toro, featured a unique vision of hand-to-hand combat and knife fighting.

The military training scenes and brutal fight sequences were choreographed by Rafael Kayanan and Thomas Kier. Their distinctive style is based on Sayoc Kali, a filipino martial art that specializes in knife fighting.

The Sayoc Kali influence can be seen in the way everything is treated as a weapon - a fallen tree branch, a rock, even blood running down an arm ... There is nothing pretty or clean about the fights in this movie. Each punch and slash looks like it hurts. Each combatant ends up exhausted, battered, bruised and bloody.