After waiting several years for its arrival, the action movie majesty of Havoc, which sees The Raid director Gareth Evans join forces with Oscar-nominee Tom Hardy
for this Netflix
thriller, is almost upon us. And it certainly sounds like it could boast not just one of Hardy’s best performances, but Havoc has the potential to be one of the best action movies of all time, with Evans promising that the actor is in “f*cking beast mode.”
Speaking with Empire, who have also revealed a new image from Havoc which you can check out below, Evans teased how Havoc will differ from his previous action masterpieces The Raid and The Raid 2. Havoc will involve far more gunplay, and a little less martial arts, than Evans’ previous works, with Hardy at the center as an unstoppable, granite-built action hero.
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“It was never going to be a martial-arts film. I wanted this to feel like the gunplay stuff that I love watching. Tom came to us in f*cking beast mode. I tapped him on the shoulder and it was just like granite. He came fully physically prepared.”
Tom Hardy’s Bruised Detective Will Bring the Pain in ‘Havoc’
While both The Raid, The Raid 2, and Gareth Evans’ crime drama series Gangs of London do not scrimp on brutal and bloody violence, it sounds like Tom Hardy’s bruised detective, Walker, will leave them all in the dust. Revealing details of the character, Evans teased a battering ram of an action hero, rather than one with the martial arts flare of The Raid’s Iko Uwais. To put it simply, Walker will bring the pain.
“Walker is not silky-smooth. He’s gonna cause as much carnage and as much mayhem as possible. He’s not grabbing your wrist and turning you into an arm lock. He’s grabbing you by the scruff of the neck and driving your face into the nearest heavy object.”
Alongside the brutality, Havoc will live up to its name, with Evans describing an action sequence that sounds like pure, unashamed chaos.
“There’s a sequence in a fishing shack where it’s like an onslaught, a relentless attack. Every corner of this place someone’s going to pop up with a gun, someone’s going to pop up with a knife, and they’re going to come from under the floorboards, around the corners, through this window, through that window.”
Written and directed by Gareth Evans (The Raid, Gangs of London), and starring Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Justin Cornwell, Quelin Sepulveda, Luis Guzmán, Michelle Waterson, Sunny Pang, Jim Caesar, Xelia Mendes-Jones with Yeo Yann Yann, Timothy Olyphant, and Forest Whitaker, Havoc is due to hit Netflix on April 25, and you can check out the official synopsis below.
“After a drug deal gone wrong, a bruised detective must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son, while unravelling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares his entire city.”
Source: Empire
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