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When First Blood debuted in 1982 and Sylvester Stallone made film and knife history with his survival knife by BLADE Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame© member Jimmy Lile, hardly anyone could have imagined that after 36 years and three sequels, John Rambo would return to combat. However, in the fifth installment of the franchise, Last Blood, Rambo returns not to fight an overpowering military opponent but to save a young woman dear to him from a Mexican sex trafficking cartel.
As with each Rambo flick, a new knife is an integral part of the star’s equipment, and this time it’s new knives. After Lile for the first two Rambo films and Cutlery Hall-Of-Famer Gil Hibben (page 10) for the latter two, Stallone left the design work for the new knives for to Germany’s Dietmar Pohl. A veteran of over 25 years in the cutlery industry and a designer of many knives, he also has written four books on combat and tactical knives. His designs include the Boker Speedlock/Toplock, the Kalashnikov series and his Pohl Force Alpha models.
