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

| May 2, 2025

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2025

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

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 1, 2025

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.

| Apr 30, 2025

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 28, 2025

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2025

...the plot feels somewhat overstuffed as it strains to cover a similar scale of narrative... It also means that the action takes a little while to arrive — but when it does, it lands like a nuclear missile.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2025

Havoc is brutal, cynical, ultimately a little repetitive, but done with absolute expertise and brio — while the dark-city atmospherics (grit, graffiti, neon-lit sidewalk steam) are laid on with real elegance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2025

There’s no way to call “Havoc” a good movie, but as bad movies go, this is a good one. Depending on your mood, its variety of craziness could be what you’re looking for.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 25, 2025

It’s too easy to drift away from Havoc, which is convoluted without being complex and busy without being interesting.

| Apr 25, 2025

Tom Hardy joins forces with The Raid director Gareth Evans for a bloody action movie that should maybe been a little better, given their respective filmographies. Not that this Netflix crime thriller fails to deliver in the adrenaline department.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 25, 2025

The cheesy screenplay, shallow characters and wince-worthy acting suggest that Evans might be better suited to specializing in the second unit or action sequences on a major franchise, rather than writing and directing a quasi-dramatic feature.

| Apr 24, 2025

Rote as Evans’ plot might be, and wasteful as its treatment of certain characters definitely is, he has a well-developed ear for ice-cold gangster speak, and he isn’t afraid to make people pay a steep price for their penance.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 24, 2025

A movie that never quite feels real and where the relentless barrage of bullets feebly attempts to distract us from the lazy screenwriting. Even the Christmas snow looks fake.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 24, 2025

Evans certainly brings the craziness and the violence but, for me, without the stylish martial arts of his Raid films and without any plausible sense that anything is believably at stake.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 24, 2025

Though the characters in “Havoc” are forgettable, the carnage is gripping.

| Apr 24, 2025

If the rest of it had been as driven by such a ferocious sense of purpose as its final act, Havoc would be one of the finest action movies of the decade so far.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 24, 2025

Even in a genre that’s long indulged in excessiveness, this is the ruthless over-the-top carnage aficionados covet.

| Apr 24, 2025