9 Dumbest Weapons In Sci-Fi Movies
3. Glaive (Krull)
Sci fi guns have a distinct advantage in how believable they are over hand to hand weapons. A gun is just a metal tube filled with gunpowder that shoots small slabs of metal fast enough to punch a hole through someone. But a sword, knife, axe etc. need the human body's participation in order to work. They need to be designed for the human hand, otherwise the weapon will do more damage to the user than anyone else.
This is one of the many reasons that Krull is wonderfully dumb. The Glaive is one of the most awesomely stupid weapon designs I have ever laid eyes on.
Even when you discard the whole magic aspect of the weapon, it's still utterly bonkers how anyone is supposed to actually use this thing. For one, there's no good way to grab onto it without cutting yourself. And since you're meant to throw the Glaive and catch it in mid-air, our intrepid hero should have lost all of his fingers the first time he used it.