Havoc

If you’re looking for blood and viscera and creative hyper-violence to fuel your adrenaline rush, the movie delivers.

Evans may wade into deeper waters here — grappling with morality, loyalty, and personal failure — but he never loses sight of what he does best: delivering chaos with craft. A brutal reminder of why Evans remains one of action cinema’s most vital voices.

...the fight choreography is unflinching and exact, the mayhem sublimely staged.

It’s a movie where you never look at your phone because you don’t want to miss the next crazy stunt Evans and his incredible crew are about to perform.

The star power of Tom Hardy and the silky camera moves of the Welsh director Gareth Evans (The Raid) are not, alas, enough to save this gloomy cop thriller from its own inadequacies.

The vibe throughout is pure 1980s John Woo: the plot is clean and pared-down; the characters all drawn from the well of heroic bloodshed archetypes.

Gareth Evans' Havoc is much more than an action movie. Which it is, and one of the best of the year. It's also a fresh take on the genre that combines ultra-violence with experimental visuals. [Full Review in Spanish]

Revolves around gang vengeance and a dirty cop seeking redemption.

Borrowing liberally from John Woo’s heroic bloodshed films from the 1980s and 1990s, Havoc is a gritty noir set in an unnamed city so grimy that even Max Payne would consider moving out.

Havoc is actually served by featuring a narrative that is so often muddled&#59; everything extraneous falls by the wayside, and viewers can simply sit back and enjoy Evans’ latest wild, brutal ride.