Havoc – Friday 25th April 2025

Who doesn't want to see Tom Hardy kicking ass in a Gareth Evans movie?

Well, if it’s this particular movie, not me!!

I had high hopes, given the calibre of talent involved in this movie, but what a load of crap it turned out to be!

Cliché characters, nonsensical set-pieces, a convoluted plot and absolutely no point to any of it!

If the story was strung together, just to showcase the action scenes, I could forgive the whole thing, if those action scenes were good. But they’re not. They’re so ludicrous, you can’t possibly take them seriously! You’ve got dozens of henchmen with machine guns firing at the small group of heroes trapped in a wooden cabin, and the heroes manage to dodge every single bullet, yet every shot they fire in the opposite direction takes out a bad guy!

Even Bollywood movies from the 80s weren’t this ridiculous (actually, they were, but still!)!

Also, just how many Chinese characters were killed in this movie? Surely that’s gotta be a hate crime or something??

Seriously, what a dumb, wasted opportunity of a movie. It’s every inch a Netflix film; i.e. made for people who watch movies while they’re doom scrolling on their phones.

Do yourselves a favour; avoid this and just rewatch ‘The Raid’ or ‘Warrior’ again.