Havoc
Directed by Gareth EvansAfter a drug deal gone wrong, a bruised detective must fight his way through the criminal underworld to rescue a politician's estranged son, unraveling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares his entire city.
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- BizimkiApril 25, 2025Oh so much blood and killing! Seems like nonstop. Like in a video game. Unreal shooting. Never run out of bullets. Takes forever to kill a man. Waste of time and good actors.
- RipLinesManApril 24, 2025Event Horizon (1997) tore open the fabric of space and sanity to show us the abyss, but Havoc slashes into the heart of urban decay with just as much ferocity—only this time, the hellscape is manmade, and it breathes corruption. Directed with surgical precision by Gareth Evans, Havoc feels like a spiritual cousin to Paul W.S. Anderson’s sci-fi horror, trading haunted starships for crime-ridden cityscapes, and replacing the supernatural with the chillingly systemic. Tom Hardy delivers a volcanic performance as the war-torn detective—a man whose moral compass spins violently as he wades deeper into a mire of violence and political rot. His descent mirrors that of Sam Neill’s Dr. Weir, who, in Event Horizon, becomes both architect and victim of his own damnation. The characters in both films act as lightning rods for their environments. Just as Laurence Fishburne’s Captain Miller anchors Event Horizon with a righteous fury and reluctant empathy, Forest Whitaker in Havoc brings a quiet gravity that keeps Hardy’s chaos tethered, however tenuously, to something resembling hope. These are not heroes in the traditional sense—they are men clawing against inevitability, screaming into the void, and daring it to scream back. Cinematographically, Havoc trades the baroque, cathedral-like horror of a doomed spaceship for noir-soaked alleyways and crumbling institutions. But the sense of claustrophobia, of walls closing in both physically and psychologically, is shared. Evans channels dread like Anderson did—slow, deliberate, with moments of operatic violence punctuating long silences filled with tension. Havoc may lack the literal portal to hell that made Event Horizon iconic, but it conjures its own inferno from human nature, corruption, and guilt. It is a meditation on entropy, not of stars, but of souls. And much like Event Horizon, it leaves you unnerved, unsettled, and deeply, darkly moved.
- SpoonsApril 25, 2025Tom Hardy gets smashed to bits in Gareth Evans’ Havoc, a hyper-violent, cyberpunk riot where the story barely matters and the camera never f***ing stops. Like RoboCop on a cocaine bender. Absolutely wild.
- Ray Hopkin3d agoAbsolutely brilliant! The action set pieces are top notch, which you'd expect from Evans. Lots of martial arts, guns, blood, violence, carnage from start to finish, the climax is worth it alone!
- Kit LazerApril 26, 2025I may never recover from this disappointment (this is a weighted three stars, I love you Tom Hardy/Gareth Evans)
- m.clinApril 30, 2025Good movie, mostly overdone car scenes and cgi effects. Story was alright. Watch once and put on the shelf.
- Jaffer3d agoMiss those classic Asian action flicks with martial arts, machetes, shotguns, and Korean crime bosses in sharp suits? This film brings you as close as it gets!
- André CastroMay 12, 2025Standard action movie, with a lot of action, blood, kills and unlimited ammo guns. The story is a bit weak though
- jackmeatMay 8, 2025My quick rating - 6.3/10. Gareth Evans, best known for The Raid films, brings his signature brand of gritty, unrelenting action to Havoc, a bullet-riddled crime thriller anchored by a tough-as-nails performance from Tom Hardy. Set in a city overrun with corruption and fueled by the aftermath of a drug deal gone catastrophically wrong, Havoc delivers exactly what its title promises—chaos, violence, and a relentless pace from start to finish. Hardy plays Walker, a weathered detective trudging through layers of rot in the criminal underworld as he attempts to rescue a kidnapped politician’s son. What follows is an urban warzone of bone-crunching brawls, double-crosses, and shootouts that seem to defy the very concept of ammunition limits. One barfight in particular stands out—not just for its sheer brutality, but for its crisp, kinetic choreography. Evans knows how to film a fight, and it shows. There's barely a clean hand in sight. Corruption is endemic, infecting the police, the politicians, and the gangs alike. Forest Whitaker gives a reliably strong performance as the slippery politician, and Timothy Olyphant steps up to play a smarmy antagonist, though calling anyone a "bad guy" here is almost beside the point. It's moral sludge all the way down. Among the few glimmers of decency are Jessie Mei Li’s young officer Ellie—perhaps the film’s only character who doesn’t seem for sale—and Mia, played with punchy energy by Quelin Sepulveda. Mia is no passive damsel; she’s throwing fists and challenging the power dynamics every step of the way. The body count here rivals John Wick, and while some of the kills are a bit over-the-top (full clips emptied into single targets), the film leans into the mayhem unapologetically. If anything, it seems aware of its genre excesses. Guns rarely run dry, but at least characters are shown scavenging for new weapons, a nice nod to realism amid the carnage. The blood flows freely, sometimes too freely. A few scenes betray the use of CGI splatter when practical effects must’ve run dry. What Havoc lacks in wit (don’t expect memorable one-liners or quippy banter), it makes up for in sheer commitment to the mood. It plays it straight, and that works in its favor. This is a dirty, grimy crime flick that doesn't pretend to be profound. It simply loads the magazine, punches the clock, and goes to war. While it doesn’t hit the highs of Evans’ earlier masterpieces, Havoc is a worthy entry into the gritty action canon. It’s not aiming for awards—it’s aiming for your adrenal glands. And it hits more often than it misses. Bloody, relentless, and morally bankrupt, Havoc is a solid, no-frills action ride with enough brutal set pieces to satisfy fans of the genre. Just don’t come looking for redemption—or reloads.
- Mr CthulhuMay 7, 2025Fun & Dumb. Some great gun play and violence, but paper thin on plot and characterization.
- Corwin02April 30, 2025Booooring! Blood, infinite bullets, plot sucks… and 2 good actors: Venom and U.S. Marshall Raylon Gibbons
- stoner.manMay 3, 2025Decent, but felt like Blair Witch combined with Batman and wanted to be ‘Heat’..
- Alex | Pop Culture BrainApril 25, 2025Aggressive, gnarly, straightforward actioner that let Tom Hardy loose
- PatrikStarApril 24, 2025Weak story, flat characters, kinda sketchy CGI. But hey when it comes to action and shootouts, it does the job! We don’t watch John Woo movies for the story anyway.
- lilithp3April 27, 2025If ur looking for Tom hardy led Raid, this aint it son. the shaky camera alone is annoying as crap. no one is a good guy. Their is zero good hand to hand scenes. 1 star is generous, but its cuz tom hardy. go watch life after fighting
