William Friedkin’s 10 Most Jaw-Dropping Movie Moments

3. The Hunted (2003)

Benicio del Toro stars as a trained military assassin who goes rogue, forcing his former mentor Tommy Lee Jones out of retirement in order to track him down and take him out. The Hunted is a typically existential thriller from Friedkin, but there is a particular scene which is somewhat jaw-dropping, if only due to its extreme lack of credibility. Del Toro, hunted and unarmed, stops for a moment to build a campfire out in the wilderness from which he is able to draw enough heat to forge a metal bar into a deadly hunting knife. Granted, there might have been some coal involved, but even so it is extremely unlikely that a fire of this type could ever reach the temperature necessary for forging. That said, the brilliantly choreographed knife fight which follows between Del Toro and Jones is pretty jaw-dropping, which does make it worthwhile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy_utfWemC4