Netflix's new action film empties the magazine

Gareth Evans is one of the Western filmmakers who best understood the codes of Asian action cinema. Not surprisingly, the Welshman worked in the field, settling in Indonesia to make martial arts documentaries and create odes to the genius. stomacher by Iko Uwais in Merantau and the two parts of The raid, which became an ultraviolent global success. After creating the series Gangs of London, Evans returns to the coordinates where he was forged with Havoc, a Netflix production that has taken a tortuous four-year path to reach the screens.

Perhaps intoxicated by the serial narratives that have occupied him in recent times, Evans seems to have raised Havoc Like the final chapter of a long-running story, where all the characters carry heavy burdens (starting with the anti-hero played by Tom Hardy, a policeman striving for redemption for his sins), relationships are already established, and the imminent outcome imposes a sense of permanent climax. In practice, this eliminates the downtime of an adventure. neo-noir in which a drug deal that ends in a massacre triggers a war involving a group of scoundrels, Chinese mafia triads, corrupt law enforcement officers (and some noblemen), and a real estate mogul. Hand-to-hand combat with the ballet of bullets patented in the late 1980s by filmmakers like John Woo, displaying a choreography of lead, blood, and broken bones so improbable and dizzying that on more than one occasion it leads us to rewind the footage to verify what we have seen in this 's'. natural habitat for this cinematic adrenaline rush.