No one just shoots One Shot in Havok, the new part of director Gareth Evans' action crippling. When people direct their weapons here, they release almost impossible torrent of circles, shooting constantly, the soundtrack turned into a thunderous firearm. When the bullets finally stop flying, the ears will ring. It's all a little too big, to the extent that Evans' latest film, which is right for Netflix, begins to grow almost inadvertently comedy. Until the climate moment arrived, when a character pointed to an automatic weapon-shot in someone and fired while a blood fountain scattered in their screaming face, I felt an uncontrolled urge to laugh at the violent absurdity of it. Yes, don't make a mistake: "Chaos" is Violent to the extreme. But this raises a question: how much is fun of seeing so much meaningless violence?

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Evans, who has been working for "chaos" for years (actually finished filming in 2021 Before needing some reshapes) is a professional in setting up the action of the jaw, as the fansubi of his "RAID" movies I can tell you. These are brutal strokes, but there is some pleasure to have to see the characters to beat hell from each other. "Havok", however, is so constantly nasty that it has left a sour taste in his mouth. While criminals are the main players here, there are some unfortunate passers -by who argue in brutal fashion - one particularly cruel scene has a completely innocent woman brutally shot to death in a hospital hallway for no real reason except shock value.

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I don't want to sound like a killer here, but ... are not action movies that should be Fun? No "chaos". Evans seem to be committed to bringing us bad weather here - a film presented mostly in horrible, filthy locations against the funniest setting for Christmastime that can be imagined. Of course, there is some enjoyment to be seen in seeing all this chaos, but Jes, you may want to light up a little, "chaos".

As "chaos" begins, a distorted policeman Walker (Tom Hardy, making another unforgettable voice) refer to the site of the massacre of some Chinese triad gangsters. After visualizing what happened like Will Graham in "Manchunter" https://www.slashfilm.com/ "Hannibal" (a fun concept I hoped Evans would hire a few more times, instead of giving up), Walker realizes one of the people involved in Massil. corrupt). When he is not (barely) a police officer, Walker Moon as a hired muscle for Beomont, and soon he was tasked with trying to find Charlie and his girlfriend Mia (Quein Sepulveda), who are on the run.

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Seemingly, everyone wants to kill these two children, and no place is safe in the city (the city itself is never named, and never feels like the right place - there are more wide shots that look completely digital and false, as if everyone inhabits Robert Rodriguez's "son"). Honestly, none of this matters - it's all setting up the table, so Evans can release one violent shootout after another. While the hand -to -hand fight was what made Raid's films so exciting, Gunplay is the focus of "chaos". And maybe that's the problem: seeing characters hitting and kicking each other is exciting; Looking at the characters of firearms over and over? Not so much.

It certainly does not help not to worry about any of these characters. In theory, we should Caring for Charlie and MIA, because they are a pair of children during their heads and everyone stands for them. But the film does not spend enough time with them for us to give a damn. As for Hardy's bad police officer, there are some things about how he is full of regret and wants to do things properly and save his damaged soul, but this is a clichen, loving things we have seen in a billion other movies. Hardy is a charismatic actor and he certainly has physical activity to make all action scenes. But there is absolutely nothing interesting about his character; He is just a guy who moves from a piece of piece to the next with frowning face.

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Moreover, much of the action that takes place here is frustrating disorienting and difficult to follow. Evans and cinematographer Matt Flaneri are fondi -loud camera shaking when the action begins, everything in the name of chaos conveying at the moment. But instead of stepping up the action, it makes it ineffective; It's hard to get into an action if we can't see what hell is happening.

In the middle of all this, Hardy is backed by talented people like Jesse Mei Lee, who does what can be signed with a sign (she is a seemingly only honest police officer in the city), and Timothy Oliphant, who plays a police officer even a Walker. But again: none of these characters is much. Evans does not look interested in people here; He just wants the bodies to be destroyed in healthier bullets.

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"Havoc" deserves praise for setting up some unforgettable action strokes, especially a huge culmination in the dilapidated snow cabin that is built and builds up to the point that you feel that adrenaline is directed through your body as you watch. But to get there is such an awkward, miserable steam that I felt like deflating while the film was going.

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To be clear: I want a good, violent action movie just like the next friend, but you have to give me more than just one extreme shootout followed by another. Maybe if the hypervillation was a little more styled, it would have played better. Instead, it's just ugly things that are repeated in the stiffness of fashion.

By the time I ended up "chaos", I felt just as exhausted as beaten and bruised on Hardy. I suppose Evans and the company deserve some credit for making an action movie that really relies on brutality, but there are only so much of what we can handle before it starts growing boring.

/Movie rating: 5 out of 10

"Havoc" is streamed on Netflix April 25, 2025.