There's something extremely terrifying about enemies agreeing with each other that they have to be quiet if they're gonna kill each other because if not all of them will die. Also slowly SNEAKING towards each other in complete silence knowing that the person infront of you wants to dig you six feet under
Instances like this were rare. Not in the sense that opposing raiding parties wouldn't encounter each other in no-man's land, that did happen. Rather it was rare in the sense that when encounters like this did occur, they would usually ignore each other instead of fighting it out. Nobody wanted to fight in that war, nobody wanted to kill or be killed.
@@aggelosSlipKnoTRKO medieval times and antiquity can tell you, scout parties normaly would agree on "alright i see you, you see me, lets get back to our armies" but every once in a while, it was a bloody couple of dozen vs a couple of dozen fight to the death
I felt really bad for the scot (who looked like a kid) that got double teamed by the 2 germans and was repeatedly stabbed in the back while reaching for his comrade.
This scene gave me chills honestly. I liked the other kings man movies but this one is my favorite hands down. They always stretch the reality/realism in the franchise but I would say their were a few good scenes in this movie that seemed very realistic, let alone historically accurate. Like when the German mouthed to be quiet or they’ll both get shot because they don’t know who is who out there, and the Brit’s are like “alright then let’s go mate” as he pulls his melee weapons out.
Can't shoot each other, but they can't let the other team leave to find the guy that was running across no man's land either. Only way it could go down.
@@pipebombpete.6861 I think that while realism in the sense that it pertains to real world events and logic isn’t necessary in a story, but internal consistency is. For example, a fantasy world shouldn’t play by our laws of physics, but should damn well abide to its own. If the wizard says that flying magic is impossible and someone does it in the next scene, that’s not realistic to the _world._
@@aduckwithayoutubechannel "If the wizard says that flying magic is impossible" Eh, maybe the wizard doesn't have the right experience. Who knows? **shrugs**
The German with the hammer is a freakin' Angel of Death who is just utterly terrifying. It's one thing to see him in a movie, but can you imagine encountering this big, hulking mass of muscle that doesn't seem to have a "face" or anything remotely "human" about them? It's so dark that you're already having trouble seeing where everything is, but you watch this "monster" proceed to (brutally) go through a few people who might have been your friends... and then he turns his attention on YOU. Honestly, I don't think I have the stuff for combat like this. Way too animalistic.
Scary thing is that that person (or character if you wish) used to be a "normal" person with dreams and hopes as anybody else. But the war turned him into a blood thirsty thing. What's even scarier that there is probably actual real cases of this. Where war brings out the worst of people.
@KyleR Well, one can't deny that he is a badass~ Yes. They had all kinds of makeshift armor stuff going on in WW1 because if you didn't get put down by machine gun fire in No Man's Land, you'd have to get up close and personal with someone.
@@Sneedmire yeah a lot of the makeshift armor here is accurate. The really unsettling part is the fact that the weird knife-gauntlet things the soldiers with the gas masks and were real too.
I'm glad this actually showed how training Conrad to use melee weapons benefitted him, it's not like he immediately kills the entire squad of Germans, but he is able to stand his ground in a two-on-one without immediately going down.
I don’t think i’ve seen a fight scene with such savagery and brutality of realism. Something with no words like this gets it point across just like it wants to and leaves you with a sad/hurting feeling while being disturbed. Hell of a scene.
In the bonus features for this movie, they committed a whole segment on the making of this fight scene. Its cool hey they made this scene with the intent of showing the brutal nature of real close quarters trench fighting, not just for the sake of the story. And then even in the behind the scenes footage of this fight, both in rehearsals and in the actual filming, every actor is giving their 100% to portraying a no-holds-barred visceral fight to the death.
Probably one of the most Sportsman like fights I've ever seen. They both know they're all dead if the shoot, so they all decide to put down their guns and fight eachother fairly
It's like the British captain made the split second decision to shoot and sacrifice himself by giving up his position in order for the mission to succeed.
"No guns or we all fucking die" "Goods point" *Pulls out melee* Everyones in agreement that the Artillery team is for sure gonna drop gods wrath if they make too much noise
I think my favourite part about this scene (other than the well executed fight scene and the humanity given to both sides) is the inclusion of niche ww1 weapons like a gauntlet dagger and mace, and one guy with a hammer
This scene was pleasantly authentic. One of the germans had a MP18, used almost exclusively by storm troopers. Which also explains why the germans were winning the whole time, as they were essentially special forces going up against standard infantry. The big german with the hammer was also wearing lobster armor, a real armored suit they issued specifically for hand to hand fighting.
@@ryanskinner6792 They were winning until they went up against Mr. Main Character, which was when they turned into special Ed forces. Realistically, they would’ve slaughtered all of the Scottish soldiers without losing a single man
I keep replaying the CO's intention in my head when he pulled out his handgun. He had the upper hand over his direct German opponent but didn't look like he could finish him off. He saw that Conrad was about to get his head caved in and the situation would quickly turn to a 2 v 1 against him which he would be unlikely to survive. It's like he knew that he had to sacrifice himself for the mission to succeed. He knew he would be fired upon from the trench lines the moment he fired shots.
Also the fact that, despite knowing that he would die anyway, the British officer still put the German soldier he was fighting through the shame and misery of being a human shield, British-German relations in a nutshell
i always wondered why he didn't hit the deck after killing the other soldier. Maybe he would've been killed either way, but logically he would have a better chance of survival
The movie didn't live up to the ones before it but holy shit this scene genuinely gave me chills watching it in the cinema. Its so dark and gritty it feels like its from a completely different movie which kinda made it feel out of place. Still an amazing scene with truly terrifying choreography and emotion.
Yeah I could not believe they killed the son and carried on with the father. Like I checked out for the rest of this movie after this scene because it was so badass and I thought we were gonna get more like it
@@goodtimesgamingtm1316 that’s the point though, in the first two movies they do say that the Kingsman organisation was formed by aristocrats who lost their sons in WW1. I knew that going in and still got caught off guard
@@mrwortharead2631 ohhh that’s fair I forgot about that but still it’s kind of like when you know what happens to a character in a show or movie and still want to see more of them after they die or see a more interesting story going a different route. Plus I wish he would’ve died in a different way I thought it was super good but the first one is still my favorite
@@mammamiaculpathis movie is great, the scene is exactly where it’s supposed to be. The scene of Connor being shot in the head is a twist of harry being shot in the head. In the first one, the experienced agent dies and the new guy has to go save the world, we the audience expected, let’s be honest, the first Lancelot to be the hero of the movie, he was shown to be so bad ass, but his death 5 minutes in was reverting expectations. Like valentine said, this isn’t that kind of movie. So by this movie, we’re expecting it to be about Conrad and maybe his father dies saving him or something, but with Conrad’s death it’s another reverting of expectations. It’s the movie saying “you expected Conrad to be the hero to save the world? This isn’t that kind of movie bruv.” Not to mention how harry explained the origins of kingsmen to eggsy in the first one. Rich socialites outlived their children and invested their money into making their clothing company into a spy organization that even the governments didn’t know about. So based on that exposition from the first movie, Conrad was doomed to die.
The mask part is only for the visual affects when in reality no one would disadvantage themselves by wearing a gas mask when your opponent is breathing freely. Looks cool for the movie and “scary German” but in reality you’d have to be an idiot.
Fair enough Ig. I think these Germans were trench raiders so it makes a little more sense that they would already be using gas masks, with the gas grenades and all. It could also be used simply for intimidation, considering the skulls also painted on their helmets
The scene and the setting are something that is very well done, but from there to the fact that a single man can kill all the other Germans... it seems to me that he has the power of the script.
This scene is exemplary. You feel every single motion, every vibration in the setting. Everything comes to life. Rotten Tomatoes did not do this film justice.
I love a good up, close and personal melee fight. And the fact that both sides agreed to setting down their guns and battling it out knife to knife to not give away their positions is both badass and brilliant. I'd love to experience something like this in a game, whether it'd be qtes or something else
0:34 Gauntlet dagger armed by a German soldier to the far left 0:58 German from the left delivers a possible killing stab 0:59 German to his left launches himself, possibly killing the British soldier opposite to him 1:01 Main character starts fighting his opponent 1:09 A shot of the British officer and (maybe) the German officer fighting 1:14 British officer delivers a killing hit with his hatchet 1:18 Armoured German snaps a British soldier's shin 1:19 Same people but the British soldier now has a rearranged face 1:21 Another British soldier dies 1:32 2 Germans (possibly the ones on the left side of the opening shot) are stabbing another British soldier 1:49 Main character kills the German he started fighting in 1:01 1:59 Main character dodges a swing, then stabs the German from 0:34 in the arm, and then throws him 2:02 German who swung his knife gets tripped over, accidentally stabs Gauntlet german from 0:34 2:09 The german who tripped over gets sliced in the neck by the Main character 2:16 The Armoured german brings his hammer down (somehow the man whose leg broke had his scream ignored?) 2:23 Armoured german takes the Main character off his grasp 2:40 British officer shoots armoured geman and (possibly) the German officer. We have 2 candidates who could actually be the officer Notes: There was a german soldier spotted with a club, or a mace. However, I cannot see when or where said weapon was used later
@@sunnex474 possibly, but you'll have to note the following 1. You wouldn't dual wield a hammer and gauntlet dagger 2. You wouldn't pick up a dead man to stab him again 3. The guy in 1:21 still has a recognisable human face with no visible damage
correction: the main character did not stab the german soldier from 0:34 in the arm at 1:59. instead, he broke his arm, apparent by the fact that i spotted the knife not sticking out of the german soldier's arm.
@@thewolfofswingthat2035 If anyone in trenches see gunfire They would shoot that area with machine gun no matter which side is winning Ww 1 was insane like that
@@thewolfofswingthat2035 cause you can use it to drop maybe one or two guys right before you jump into the enemies trench. Trench raiding was always about the shock of it you would catch the enemy sleeping or in a lull have a lad throw in a few grenades drop some with rifle (and SMG if you were German) fire then hop in and finish off the poor discombobulated chaps with knives and clubs and be back in time for breakfast. At least that was the ideal of it.
Fun fact did you know that in kings man the German soldier with a knife sticking into a fighting boxing glove it was called the “gauntlet dagger” a trench melee weapon that was terrifying to use in ww1.
@@jan_dr18 it was called the anglo-french gauntlet, and yeah. but its not unbelievable that a german stormtrooper might have had access to prototypes since their was a lot of experimental tactics and weapons being developed for them to try and re-establish maneuver warfare on the western front.
Small details, the guy who saves him at the end of the scene holds the dead German body up as a shield from the friendly fire, he did this on purpose because he didn't want to get killed by his own side.
I love how as the scene goes on the song gets louder and eventually it actually sounds like a lewis gun firing in the distance signaling what is about to happen, they did an excellent job with this movie
It makes me shit my pants to think I could’ve been born in 1898 and been the 17 year old boy conscripted to knife fight to the death and get repeatedly stabbed in the mud because some fucking foreign archduke got killed
The gas masks ruined it for me. No way they’d have worn them in a night raid without any need, if gas would have been used shortly before… the Scottish soldiers would have been using gas masks too.
Their uniforms are all mix-matched to create different archetypes for the fight. If only the gasmasks look out of place to you then you aren’t as clever as you wanted to sound
Gas masks were used as a method of phycological warfare and notice how only the stormtroopers we're wearing them. People back then feared these guys Even though the stormtroopers we're a form of fear propaganda
They also slowly stalked menacingly towards him for dramatic effect instead of, you know, trying to save their buddy's life before Conrad slit his throat.
@@thunda7928 plus I don’t get why he killed him like it was just a kid he probably would have been too scared to fight and I speak a little German and poor guy was going “please please please, no, no please” and he still slit his throat like wth lol
When you see WWI weapons you see how quickly it devolved into medieval-styled combat. Knives, sharpened shovels, makeshift maces made out of wood and machine parts. It was truly brutal
I could make a video essay on why this is a perfect action scene. - Great concept - Clear stakes, objective - Character building - Active, emotional decisions - Kinetic camerawork (Brad Allan, 2nd Unit Director) - Unique animalistic choreography (Chris Cowan, Action Designer) - Clear geography - Variety of weaponry/combat styles (Jon Baker, armorer) - Great setting - Great costuming (Michele Clapton, designer) - Great sound design R.I.P Brad Allan, Hollywood will sorely miss you.
I thought this was such a crazy good idea for a fight scene. Trying to kill your enemy while also trying to be quiet really ups the stakes and put me on the edge of my seat
i felt more bad for the scot (who looked like a kid) that got double teamed by the 2 germans and was repeatedly stabbed in the back while reaching for his comrade.
@@RandomPerson-kf6qm what do you mean? the face he made while getting stabbed looks like the face someone would make while getting stabbed. his face wasn't still at all.
more often than not that did happen, in the early phase of the war. Basically the Germans realized super quick our lads are a tad bit soft and just are coming back with the amount of ammo they went out with so they took up training the types of lads you see in the video above. Stormtroopers right vicious chaps who were trained specifically to go out grenade trenches and hop in and finish guys off with knives and clubs to do that they had to be hard men indeed. Brits and French just did it with veterans German trench raiders though were trained from day one to be comfortable with killing in melee.
normally that did happen, but in the story theyre both after a english spy who got injured in no mans land (i.e both had the same goal so no choice but to fight)
@@legalosmumakilslayer That’s not ACCURATE I hate to be that prick, but German StoßTrüppen (storm troops) were not trained from day 1 to do trench raids because regular German troops were ‘a tad soft’ Storm troopers were handpicked from veterans already serving, and then were sent to specialist training school for 2 months to learn raid and infiltration tactics. And I wouldn’t say the Germans were soft, they held off and inflicted higher casualties than they received against British, French, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and Indian troops on just one of their fronts, while also beating back the Russians in the east and even sending troops to face the Italians, and THEN it still took the yanks to finally crack the German army. They were beaten by huge odds not better skill
I love the smaller details in this scene. Like if you look close enough, you can notice skulls and other insignias painted on the German helmets. So cool
i love it's a total contrast from every other fight scene in the kingsman series. They don't have bombastic and revelatory music. It's only fear and dread
There is something so cool and so terrifying about a trench coat wearing german soldier with a gas mask and one of those Knivesthat are attached to a glove. I was kinda routing for him to survive.
@@gibby9919 I am collecting WWI (and WWII ) equipment and close combat daggers and with my 59 years I have seen many documentations about the two wars and read many books and articles. But this movie is like James Bond. It has to be entertaining (and that`s what it is :-) instead of being realsitic, just a few examples....: 1 boy kills 2 germans at the same time. not toooooo realistic. NOBODY would wear a gasmak without gas around... in a close combat fight AND DURING NIGHT! With a gasmask you have a limited field of view, even without fighting and even during daylight. The armdagger of the german soldier wasn´t used in WWI. Just a few prototypes existed for experimental tests. If you have a machinepistol MP18, you use it (instead of getting killed) You lay down and shoot. No machingun fire gets you, but the enemy . The germans didn´t wear Batman-capes But... it is no historical documentation... just an entertaining movie film :-)
The most terrifying warfare was fighting with blades in the dark. I think the last bayonet fighting was fought in Winter 1951 during the Korean war when US marine and Chinese communist army fought in North Korea. I don't know it was both sides ran out of ammo or they agree to fight with blades!
This is what 1917 and All Quiet on the Western Front Needed. Instead neither had anything on this level. Its as if no one watched Saving Private Ryan and made 2x of the most forgettable war films...
If this was real life the Germans would have won, the armored guy with the hammer would have killed the that guy and also helped his comrade in fighting off the other guy
@@PrestonGarvey-j3g They were Scot’s who the Germans called “ladies from hell” because of the kilts. Let’s just say Canadians get their bravery and animal instincts from the Scottish
When that German covered that guys mouth as he plunged his knife in him and all you hear is a muffled scream, my stomach actually turned bro. Brutal scene but I rewatch it again and again
Yes, in WWI the germans had similiar gasmaks, indeed. But the Germans did not wear black caped Batman costumes during WW1. And without gas, certainly no gas mask, with which you can hardly see anything and certainly nothing at night.
Oh I understand just now so right after the British soldier shot the scary gas mask looking German he shot the other German soldier he was fighting too THEN when the trench soldiers heard the shot the British gunner made the German soldier’s death even more painful and the German gunner shoot too and killed the British soldier who saved his life
The way the Germans looks is so unnerving 😬😬😬😬 I dead ass would die from fear if I was out walking the woods late and night and turn around to see 5 of them just standing there with the uniforms and gas mask 😬😬😬
when i saw this in the cinema this beat from the soundtrack made me feel my heartbeat every moment got stronger until the captain used his gun and i thought conrad was already dead
Tolkien might not have wanted to admit it but the battlefields of Europe influenced Mordor and the dead marches. He knew more about war and life as a solider than Martin ever will.
Obviouslt every man there looked capable of combat on the German side and the English officer, but man... Theres something about that guy that pulls out the shortened sledgehammer. That is terrifying.
They're Stormtroopers. They were trained for "trench fighting" to serve a purpose of causing a place where regular soldiers could breakthrough the enemy line.
Yeah, as the guy above me said, these soldiers were trained for infiltration and were specialists of the German Army. But hey, we all know that the British are experts in knife fights.
hey fellas, you can use a bayonet like a spear and you can beat a man to death with the butt of a rifle. you want range in open flat ground. Also it's easier to see and breathe if you don't wear the gas mask for no reason.
Ik it’s just a movie. But what it must have taken for the men of that generation to go out time and time again in the face of certain death is almost incomprehensible.
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There's something extremely terrifying about enemies agreeing with each other that they have to be quiet if they're gonna kill each other because if not all of them will die. Also slowly SNEAKING towards each other in complete silence knowing that the person infront of you wants to dig you six feet under
Instances like this were rare. Not in the sense that opposing raiding parties wouldn't encounter each other in no-man's land, that did happen. Rather it was rare in the sense that when encounters like this did occur, they would usually ignore each other instead of fighting it out. Nobody wanted to fight in that war, nobody wanted to kill or be killed.
@@aggelosSlipKnoTRKO if they cant use their guns in no man's land why the hell they bring it there anyway?
@@aggelosSlipKnoTRKO medieval times and antiquity can tell you, scout parties normaly would agree on "alright i see you, you see me, lets get back to our armies" but every once in a while, it was a bloody couple of dozen vs a couple of dozen fight to the death
@@thewolfofswingthat2035 they’d bring their guns for when they get to the other side
I felt really bad for the scot (who looked like a kid) that got double teamed by the 2 germans and was repeatedly stabbed in the back while reaching for his comrade.
This scene gave me chills honestly. I liked the other kings man movies but this one is my favorite hands down. They always stretch the reality/realism in the franchise but I would say their were a few good scenes in this movie that seemed very realistic, let alone historically accurate. Like when the German mouthed to be quiet or they’ll both get shot because they don’t know who is who out there, and the Brit’s are like “alright then let’s go mate” as he pulls his melee weapons out.
Can't shoot each other, but they can't let the other team leave to find the guy that was running across no man's land either. Only way it could go down.
Never let realism get in the way of a good story.
@@pipebombpete.6861 I think that while realism in the sense that it pertains to real world events and logic isn’t necessary in a story, but internal consistency is.
For example, a fantasy world shouldn’t play by our laws of physics, but should damn well abide to its own. If the wizard says that flying magic is impossible and someone does it in the next scene, that’s not realistic to the _world._
@@aduckwithayoutubechannel "If the wizard says that flying magic is impossible"
Eh, maybe the wizard doesn't have the right experience. Who knows? **shrugs**
@@UA-camIsRetarded689 well, why didnt the british shoot at them and then duck so that the inevitable wall of lead coming at them doesnt hit them
The German with the hammer is a freakin' Angel of Death who is just utterly terrifying.
It's one thing to see him in a movie, but can you imagine encountering this big, hulking mass of muscle that doesn't seem to have a "face" or anything remotely "human" about them? It's so dark that you're already having trouble seeing where everything is, but you watch this "monster" proceed to (brutally) go through a few people who might have been your friends... and then he turns his attention on YOU.
Honestly, I don't think I have the stuff for combat like this. Way too animalistic.
Scary thing is that that person (or character if you wish) used to be a "normal" person with dreams and hopes as anybody else. But the war turned him into a blood thirsty thing. What's even scarier that there is probably actual real cases of this. Where war brings out the worst of people.
@@Darkserpent0572 that’s fucking deep, you never stop to think what the other side was doing before your forced into a war.
@KyleR Well, one can't deny that he is a badass~
Yes. They had all kinds of makeshift armor stuff going on in WW1 because if you didn't get put down by machine gun fire in No Man's Land, you'd have to get up close and personal with someone.
@@Sneedmire yeah a lot of the makeshift armor here is accurate. The really unsettling part is the fact that the weird knife-gauntlet things the soldiers with the gas masks and were real too.
I'm glad this actually showed how training Conrad to use melee weapons benefitted him, it's not like he immediately kills the entire squad of Germans, but he is able to stand his ground in a two-on-one without immediately going down.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how badass the German in armor looks.
And so fucking traumatic see a german of 1.90 m with armor and a Hammer
Bf1 moment
The Germans have ALWAYS looked good.
Yeah but the gas mask was unrealistic, it ruins your depth perception but still a great scene.
Brother he's German he'll look good in whatever his military decides to put on him
I don’t think i’ve seen a fight scene with such savagery and brutality of realism. Something with no words like this gets it point across just like it wants to and leaves you with a sad/hurting feeling while being disturbed. Hell of a scene.
I know of one man who killed 3 people in a bar with a pencil.
@@carminelupertazzijr3512 yah yah I know I heard the story. 3 guys bar pencil. WITH A FUCKING PENCIL WHO THE FUCK DOES THAT
@@carminelupertazzijr3512 with a f***ing pencil?! Who the f*** can do that?!
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Check out the final battle scene from the movie “ Passchendaele “ Pretty gritty and realistic.
I wasn’t a huge fan of this movie, however, this scene was incredible.
This movie needed fans? And why aren’t you a fan? First time I heard someone said movies need fans to survive lol
Big faxs
@@NgJackal1990 that's not what he said, don't put words in people's mouths.
@@NgJackal1990 ...Is your brain the size of a walnut?
@@NgJackal1990 don’t try and argue lol gen z boy
In the bonus features for this movie, they committed a whole segment on the making of this fight scene. Its cool hey they made this scene with the intent of showing the brutal nature of real close quarters trench fighting, not just for the sake of the story. And then even in the behind the scenes footage of this fight, both in rehearsals and in the actual filming, every actor is giving their 100% to portraying a no-holds-barred visceral fight to the death.
Probably one of the most Sportsman like fights I've ever seen. They both know they're all dead if the shoot, so they all decide to put down their guns and fight eachother fairly
You must not have seen the two Germans jump that one guy on the ground this was not sportsmanlike it’s realistic
@@doonbinladen940 all’s fair in war
@@shamaudphillippe-harris6506 did you not read what that guy wrote???
It's like the British captain made the split second decision to shoot and sacrifice himself by giving up his position in order for the mission to succeed.
Not necessarily fairly but in a manner that hopefully at least one person survives
love this movie so damn much, this scene is probably the best in the movie.
Literally the best scene in my opinion.
After watching the movie i replayed this scene multiple times.
best scene in the movie hands down.
The first part of the movie (about WWI) was awesome, but then the second part was just waaaay too whacky
@@jemert96 I enjoyed how they wrote real world events into the story and made it make sense to the plot.
"No guns or we all fucking die"
"Goods point" *Pulls out melee*
Everyones in agreement that the Artillery team is for sure gonna drop gods wrath if they make too much noise
unless both sides think that they're having a party, or if both sides were high on meth and alcohol
@@arthurleggywulf yea. i know the story
I think my favourite part about this scene (other than the well executed fight scene and the humanity given to both sides) is the inclusion of niche ww1 weapons like a gauntlet dagger and mace, and one guy with a hammer
Where do you see a mace? Closest thing I can find is that one German with a spiked club who died to the CO but that’s it
@@meiser5198 spiked club was called a trench mace or trench club, but I think it might've been one of the hammers
This scene was pleasantly authentic. One of the germans had a MP18, used almost exclusively by storm troopers. Which also explains why the germans were winning the whole time, as they were essentially special forces going up against standard infantry. The big german with the hammer was also wearing lobster armor, a real armored suit they issued specifically for hand to hand fighting.
@@ryanskinner6792 They were winning until they went up against Mr. Main Character, which was when they turned into special Ed forces. Realistically, they would’ve slaughtered all of the Scottish soldiers without losing a single man
And a flipping mp18 I think
Honestly I think the music really elevates this scene to the next level. The sense of horror and rising tension is done very well
The beat also sounds reminiscent of both a fast heartbeat and machine gun fire...
I like that this film wasn't afraid to show what a meat grinder trench warfare was
and it still captures how brutal it was
Is*
Still happening in modern war as Ukraine and bakhmut has shown
I keep replaying the CO's intention in my head when he pulled out his handgun. He had the upper hand over his direct German opponent but didn't look like he could finish him off. He saw that Conrad was about to get his head caved in and the situation would quickly turn to a 2 v 1 against him which he would be unlikely to survive. It's like he knew that he had to sacrifice himself for the mission to succeed. He knew he would be fired upon from the trench lines the moment he fired shots.
Also the fact that, despite knowing that he would die anyway, the British officer still put the German soldier he was fighting through the shame and misery of being a human shield, British-German relations in a nutshell
i wondering after he fired the shots, why didnt he just run behind one of those conveniently placed buildings?
Is that a Webley the CO has?.
@@podsmpsg1 yes
i always wondered why he didn't hit the deck after killing the other soldier. Maybe he would've been killed either way, but logically he would have a better chance of survival
The movie didn't live up to the ones before it but holy shit this scene genuinely gave me chills watching it in the cinema. Its so dark and gritty it feels like its from a completely different movie which kinda made it feel out of place. Still an amazing scene with truly terrifying choreography and emotion.
Yeah I could not believe they killed the son and carried on with the father. Like I checked out for the rest of this movie after this scene because it was so badass and I thought we were gonna get more like it
@@goodtimesgamingtm1316 that’s the point though, in the first two movies they do say that the Kingsman organisation was formed by aristocrats who lost their sons in WW1. I knew that going in and still got caught off guard
@@mrwortharead2631 ohhh that’s fair I forgot about that but still it’s kind of like when you know what happens to a character in a show or movie and still want to see more of them after they die or see a more interesting story going a different route. Plus I wish he would’ve died in a different way I thought it was super good but the first one is still my favorite
i agree with you. it gave me total tonal whiplash. this amazing, fucking nightmare of a scene deserves a far better movie
@@mammamiaculpathis movie is great, the scene is exactly where it’s supposed to be. The scene of Connor being shot in the head is a twist of harry being shot in the head. In the first one, the experienced agent dies and the new guy has to go save the world, we the audience expected, let’s be honest, the first Lancelot to be the hero of the movie, he was shown to be so bad ass, but his death 5 minutes in was reverting expectations. Like valentine said, this isn’t that kind of movie. So by this movie, we’re expecting it to be about Conrad and maybe his father dies saving him or something, but with Conrad’s death it’s another reverting of expectations. It’s the movie saying “you expected Conrad to be the hero to save the world? This isn’t that kind of movie bruv.” Not to mention how harry explained the origins of kingsmen to eggsy in the first one. Rich socialites outlived their children and invested their money into making their clothing company into a spy organization that even the governments didn’t know about. So based on that exposition from the first movie, Conrad was doomed to die.
One of the best fight scenes in a really long time
Fr bro
Yeah but too unrealistic! The german soldiers were better in anyway in combat than the virgin allies
The mask part is only for the visual affects when in reality no one would disadvantage themselves by wearing a gas mask when your opponent is breathing freely. Looks cool for the movie and “scary German” but in reality you’d have to be an idiot.
Fair enough Ig. I think these Germans were trench raiders so it makes a little more sense that they would already be using gas masks, with the gas grenades and all. It could also be used simply for intimidation, considering the skulls also painted on their helmets
Best scene in the movie. The minimal soundtrack. The brutal choreography. Just **chef's kiss**
The dudes with the bladed gauntlet and the sledgehammer were fucking intimidating to me
The gauntlet dagger looks so scary
The scene and the setting are something that is very well done, but from there to the fact that a single man can kill all the other Germans... it seems to me that he has the power of the script.
i mean... he was trained in hand-to-hand combat before the war in the movie so he obviously had more experience.
To be fair, given his training, he had a leg up on at least some of the soldiers. He was still losing to the hammer wielding German.
@@Querian stormtrooper are a literal veteran doe
@@NapoleonBonaparte-of4sl yea but the training he received was at a much higher level then most soldiers and even vets
@@blameitone2476 that doesn't explain why he almost lose to the German armoured guy
This scene is exemplary. You feel every single motion, every vibration in the setting. Everything comes to life. Rotten Tomatoes did not do this film justice.
What movie is this
@@vollrath83 The king's man origin
I think this scene carries this movie without it this movie is crap
@@Bayerischer_bua It really does.
I love a good up, close and personal melee fight. And the fact that both sides agreed to setting down their guns and battling it out knife to knife to not give away their positions is both badass and brilliant. I'd love to experience something like this in a game, whether it'd be qtes or something else
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a candidate for the best executed scene ever
Hands down top 10 battle scene in a movie I’ve ever seen.
its top 3 for me
You haven't seen that many battle scenes then no offence
Hands down my personal favorite top 5.
@@user-qi5jw2hg1c melee battle scenes
@@user-qi5jw2hg1c Always that one comment, always that one comment 😊
0:34 Gauntlet dagger armed by a German soldier to the far left
0:58 German from the left delivers a possible killing stab
0:59 German to his left launches himself, possibly killing the British soldier opposite to him
1:01 Main character starts fighting his opponent
1:09 A shot of the British officer and (maybe) the German officer fighting
1:14 British officer delivers a killing hit with his hatchet
1:18 Armoured German snaps a British soldier's shin
1:19 Same people but the British soldier now has a rearranged face
1:21 Another British soldier dies
1:32 2 Germans (possibly the ones on the left side of the opening shot) are stabbing another British soldier
1:49 Main character kills the German he started fighting in 1:01
1:59 Main character dodges a swing, then stabs the German from 0:34 in the arm, and then throws him
2:02 German who swung his knife gets tripped over, accidentally stabs Gauntlet german from 0:34
2:09 The german who tripped over gets sliced in the neck by the Main character
2:16 The Armoured german brings his hammer down (somehow the man whose leg broke had his scream ignored?)
2:23 Armoured german takes the Main character off his grasp
2:40 British officer shoots armoured geman and (possibly) the German officer. We have 2 candidates who could actually be the officer
Notes:
There was a german soldier spotted with a club, or a mace. However, I cannot see when or where said weapon was used later
I’m pretty sure that the British soldier at 1:18, 1:19, and 1:21 are the same person
@@sunnex474 possibly, but you'll have to note the following
1. You wouldn't dual wield a hammer and gauntlet dagger
2. You wouldn't pick up a dead man to stab him again
3. The guy in 1:21 still has a recognisable human face with no visible damage
He was killed by the officer with the hatchet.
correction: the main character did not stab the german soldier from 0:34 in the arm at 1:59. instead, he broke his arm, apparent by the fact that i spotted the knife not sticking out of the german soldier's arm.
That fact that you carefully analyze what happen in this darken fight shows how the human eye can see things even without night vision
I see why they fought hand to hand. Better chance at fighting hand to hand than getting obliterated by a machine gun
This rarely ever happened. I highly doubt it went down like this.
i was thinking if they cant use their guns in no man's land why the hell they bring it there anyway?
@@thewolfofswingthat2035 In case an enemy showed up who didn't know the rules?
@@thewolfofswingthat2035 If anyone in trenches see gunfire They would shoot that area with machine gun
no matter which side is winning
Ww 1 was insane like that
@@thewolfofswingthat2035 cause you can use it to drop maybe one or two guys right before you jump into the enemies trench. Trench raiding was always about the shock of it you would catch the enemy sleeping or in a lull have a lad throw in a few grenades drop some with rifle (and SMG if you were German) fire then hop in and finish off the poor discombobulated chaps with knives and clubs and be back in time for breakfast. At least that was the ideal of it.
That German war armor was scary af
Germans always look badass
Just makes you think how badass some of these guys where in ww1 during the trench raids in the night, truly terrifying in ww1
Those weapon-draw sound effects are so satisfying. Really crisp and clear. Plus that creeping ominous rhythm 👌
It even has a watermark
This whole movie makes me want to play battlefield one again
“The Enemy has reached the final objective.”
The Gerry's with the cape and gas masks on looks so badass.
My good man. Turn that G to a J. And have a good day
@@peris_arts_film9699 jermans
Fun fact did you know that in kings man the German soldier with a knife sticking into a fighting boxing glove it was called the “gauntlet dagger” a trench melee weapon that was terrifying to use in ww1.
I thought it wasn’t very wide-spread in Germany at that time, mostly French and British soldiers used it
@@jan_dr18 it was called the anglo-french gauntlet, and yeah. but its not unbelievable that a german stormtrooper might have had access to prototypes since their was a lot of experimental tactics and weapons being developed for them to try and re-establish maneuver warfare on the western front.
So what a soldier would think they about to brawl and the German would just surprise stab them through their glove ?
I don’t think people understand how cruel and nasty knife fights can be
Why is the British mixed with Scottish ??
In real life ww1 and ww2 they were far far apart from each other on front line
Small details, the guy who saves him at the end of the scene holds the dead German body up as a shield from the friendly fire, he did this on purpose because he didn't want to get killed by his own side.
I love how as the scene goes on the song gets louder and eventually it actually sounds like a lewis gun firing in the distance signaling what is about to happen, they did an excellent job with this movie
It makes me shit my pants to think I could’ve been born in 1898 and been the 17 year old boy conscripted to knife fight to the death and get repeatedly stabbed in the mud because some fucking foreign archduke got killed
nothing like a german dude in a gas mask running after you with a sledge hammer to really get your blood pumping
The gas masks ruined it for me. No way they’d have worn them in a night raid without any need, if gas would have been used shortly before… the Scottish soldiers would have been using gas masks too.
I think the exact opposite the blank expression of yhe gas mask adds to the suspense and slight terror
I don't think there were many cinematic melee battles in the actual WW1, it just looks cool
Their uniforms are all mix-matched to create different archetypes for the fight. If only the gasmasks look out of place to you then you aren’t as clever as you wanted to sound
Its a movie, they need to add things for certain dramatic intentions
Gas masks were used as a method of phycological warfare and notice how only the stormtroopers we're wearing them.
People back then feared these guys
Even though the stormtroopers we're a form of fear propaganda
I didn't really like the movie but this scene was incredible
0:34 I dont know why. but the German soldier with the gauntlet dagger kinda looks like the character from spongebob, the hash-slinging slasher lol
The german putting on the gauntlet was fucking badass af
The way he takes on those two guys is REALLY unrealistic and I bet the Germans would have won that fight if it weren’t for plot armor
They also slowly stalked menacingly towards him for dramatic effect instead of, you know, trying to save their buddy's life before Conrad slit his throat.
@@thunda7928 yeah lol
@@thunda7928 plus I don’t get why he killed him like it was just a kid he probably would have been too scared to fight and I speak a little German and poor guy was going “please please please, no, no please” and he still slit his throat like wth lol
What an awesome scene, so sad to think things like this might have happened
When you see WWI weapons you see how quickly it devolved into medieval-styled combat. Knives, sharpened shovels, makeshift maces made out of wood and machine parts. It was truly brutal
@arthurmwmisc why didn't the Thompson make it?
I'm proud of my country Germanys 🇩🇪 past
I could make a video essay on why this is a perfect action scene.
- Great concept
- Clear stakes, objective
- Character building
- Active, emotional decisions
- Kinetic camerawork (Brad Allan, 2nd Unit Director)
- Unique animalistic choreography (Chris Cowan, Action Designer)
- Clear geography
- Variety of weaponry/combat styles (Jon Baker, armorer)
- Great setting
- Great costuming (Michele Clapton, designer)
- Great sound design
R.I.P Brad Allan, Hollywood will sorely miss you.
I thought this was such a crazy good idea for a fight scene. Trying to kill your enemy while also trying to be quiet really ups the stakes and put me on the edge of my seat
I just know a good bell pepper lost its life making the sound effect of a neck breaking in that scene.
Fucken brutal the way the officer died
i felt more bad for the scot (who looked like a kid) that got double teamed by the 2 germans and was repeatedly stabbed in the back while reaching for his comrade.
@@TheBarber5550 yeah that was horrifying
@@TheBarber5550 kinda funny how his face was just still while he was being stabbed
@@RandomPerson-kf6qm what do you mean? the face he made while getting stabbed looks like the face someone would make while getting stabbed. his face wasn't still at all.
On a lighter note, I'm surprised both factions didn't silently agree to turn back and pretend they didn't see anything 😂
more often than not that did happen, in the early phase of the war. Basically the Germans realized super quick our lads are a tad bit soft and just are coming back with the amount of ammo they went out with so they took up training the types of lads you see in the video above. Stormtroopers right vicious chaps who were trained specifically to go out grenade trenches and hop in and finish guys off with knives and clubs to do that they had to be hard men indeed. Brits and French just did it with veterans German trench raiders though were trained from day one to be comfortable with killing in melee.
normally that did happen, but in the story theyre both after a english spy who got injured in no mans land (i.e both had the same goal so no choice but to fight)
@@legalosmumakilslayer
That’s not ACCURATE I hate to be that prick, but German StoßTrüppen (storm troops) were not trained from day 1 to do trench raids because regular German troops were ‘a tad soft’
Storm troopers were handpicked from veterans already serving, and then were sent to specialist training school for 2 months to learn raid and infiltration tactics. And I wouldn’t say the Germans were soft, they held off and inflicted higher casualties than they received against British, French, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and Indian troops on just one of their fronts, while also beating back the Russians in the east and even sending troops to face the Italians, and THEN it still took the yanks to finally crack the German army. They were beaten by huge odds not better skill
I love the smaller details in this scene. Like if you look close enough, you can notice skulls and other insignias painted on the German helmets. So cool
Their Stromtroopers
Those German stormtroopers actually looks badass
i love it's a total contrast from every other fight scene in the kingsman series. They don't have bombastic and revelatory music. It's only fear and dread
There is something so cool and so terrifying about a trench coat wearing german soldier with a gas mask and one of those Knivesthat are attached to a glove. I was kinda routing for him to survive.
This scene is so dumb it hurts a little
Rare footage from game battlefield 1. Lmao
I was disappointed when they put down the guns and agreed to a silent melee.
Was expecting something more humane.
This film was quite badass, and this scene is great!
Sorry, unrealistic, idiotic scene that will never have happened in war
@@alfredkonig4639 how do you know that?
@@gibby9919 I am collecting WWI (and WWII ) equipment and close combat daggers and with my 59 years I have seen many documentations about the two wars and read many books and articles. But this movie is like James Bond. It has to be entertaining (and that`s what it is :-) instead of being realsitic, just a few examples....:
1 boy kills 2 germans at the same time. not toooooo realistic.
NOBODY would wear a gasmak without gas around... in a close combat fight AND DURING NIGHT! With a gasmask you have a limited field of view, even without fighting and even during daylight.
The armdagger of the german soldier wasn´t used in WWI. Just a few prototypes existed for experimental tests.
If you have a machinepistol MP18, you use it (instead of getting killed) You lay down and shoot. No machingun fire gets you, but the enemy .
The germans didn´t wear Batman-capes
But... it is no historical documentation... just an entertaining movie film :-)
@@alfredkonig4639 🫥
germany has superior melee weapons
Why?
They were trench raiders fighting against a group equipped for sector patrol. They were equipped for the occasion .
@@connorwheatley5640 Exactly?
The original Kingsman is still my favorite, but this was amazing to seeing theaters. Fucking brutal scene and the tension was awesome.
What's the movie called
@@sbomoco2122 The King's Man. It's on Hulu
@@JennaTilwertz thank u
The most terrifying warfare was fighting with blades in the dark.
I think the last bayonet fighting was fought in Winter 1951 during the Korean war when US marine and Chinese communist army fought in North Korea. I don't know it was both sides ran out of ammo or they agree to fight with blades!
There have been bayonet fights in the falklands and Iraq wars, you’re referencing the last American bayonet fight
One of the Best cinematic scene in movies post covid
I’d say pre Covid as well, it’s just as good as movies pre Covid.
This is what 1917 and All Quiet on the Western Front Needed.
Instead neither had anything on this level. Its as if no one watched Saving Private Ryan and made 2x of the most forgettable war films...
If this was real life the Germans would have won, the armored guy with the hammer would have killed the that guy and also helped his comrade in fighting off the other guy
Heck yeah dude. Them stormtroopers are no jokes. They're professional fighters compared to those wermacht.
Unless those were Canadians
@@PrestonGarvey-j3g
They were Scot’s who the Germans called “ladies from hell” because of the kilts.
Let’s just say Canadians get their bravery and animal instincts from the Scottish
@@PrestonGarvey-j3g Oh, then the Germans were definitely fucked
@@PrestonGarvey-j3g also, I can't believe I'm asking this, but...
Are there any settlements that need my help?
This is the kind of scene that should've been in All Quiet On The Western Front film that came out recently.
No, because compared to this All quiet is a way more brilliant movie because it doesn't have scenes like this.
Muh boy just whips out a breach hammer like "today's my day to shine"
Best part of the whole movie
That commanding officer sacrificing himself for the mission is a testament to being above yourself
Kingsmen vs Kaisermänner?
When that German covered that guys mouth as he plunged his knife in him and all you hear is a muffled scream, my stomach actually turned bro. Brutal scene but I rewatch it again and again
first ever knives only deathmatch
this scene left me utterly speechless and constant chills in the cinema. top notch action and intensity.
I love the look of the German gas masks
GP5’te iyidir
Yes, in WWI the germans had similiar gasmaks, indeed.
But the Germans did not wear black caped Batman costumes during WW1. And without gas, certainly no gas mask, with which you can hardly see anything and certainly nothing at night.
it was actually so sad when he died, but at the same time such a good twist, i had mix feelings on the decision to cut him off
Havin that battlefield 1 sound effect
*the most quietest battle in WW1*
Oh I understand just now so right after the British soldier shot the scary gas mask looking German he shot the other German soldier he was fighting too THEN when the trench soldiers heard the shot the British gunner made the German soldier’s death even more painful and the German gunner shoot too and killed the British soldier who saved his life
This is a masterclass of film making. What a great scene.
What movie is this and where can I watch it ?
@@jarrellfernandez9341 The King's Man
The way the Germans looks is so unnerving 😬😬😬😬 I dead ass would die from fear if I was out walking the woods late and night and turn around to see 5 of them just standing there with the uniforms and gas mask 😬😬😬
Is it bad that when I saw this in theatres I nerded out over the fact that they included the spiked gauntlet in this scene?
Nah, nothin wrong with enjoying a little bit of historical accuracy
Why is one of the German soldiers wearing a Hungarian Cold War gas mask? We’re they on a budget? 😆
battlefield 1
LMAO!!! once i saw that MP18 i was like "Ooh the trench variant".
*We have lost objective Butter*
The sad side. These men killed each other without hating each other. For following orders of men who hate each other.
Why are they wearing gas masks for no reason? Because it's a movie. That's why.
Brad Allan's constant uniqueness will have a lasting impact on the state of Hollywood action, rest his soul
Did Brad choreographed this scene? I wouldn't be surprised if he did.
Is this how we should fight too ???
when i saw this in the cinema this beat from the soundtrack made me feel my heartbeat every moment got stronger until the captain used his gun and i thought conrad was already dead
Am I the only one who thinks the soldier at the start of the clip looks a lot like Richtofen from the Origins map in Call of Duty Zombies??
Tolkien might not have wanted to admit it but the battlefields of Europe influenced Mordor and the dead marches.
He knew more about war and life as a solider than Martin ever will.
I just realized both Captains died to friendly fire
When the CoD lobby is full of melee guys
Obviouslt every man there looked capable of combat on the German side and the English officer, but man... Theres something about that guy that pulls out the shortened sledgehammer. That is terrifying.
Somehow the German is more combat effective when it come to melee
They're Stormtroopers.
They were trained for "trench fighting" to serve a purpose of causing a place where regular soldiers could breakthrough the enemy line.
Yeah, as the guy above me said, these soldiers were trained for infiltration and were specialists of the German Army. But hey, we all know that the British are experts in knife fights.
@@KillerT-Bone you can’t beat the deutcher quality, and the numbers prove it xd
@@charles07km83 deutcher?
@@KillerT-Bone you know the grammar and the cellphones keyboards are great xd *Deutscher*
hey fellas, you can use a bayonet like a spear and you can beat a man to death with the butt of a rifle. you want range in open flat ground. Also it's easier to see and breathe if you don't wear the gas mask for no reason.
Ik it’s just a movie. But what it must have taken for the men of that generation to go out time and time again in the face of certain death is almost incomprehensible.
Fuck, that was brutal and terrifying.
I didn’t really like this movie that much but the fighting scenes were dope asf
This is what you picture when they say knives only in Pavlov
If you know you know
Incredible scene