{"id":30759,"date":"2025-04-18T17:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T17:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/30759\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T17:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T17:22:15","slug":"reactions-to-gareth-evans-havoc-hit-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/30759\/","title":{"rendered":"Reactions to Gareth Evans&#8217; Havoc hit social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/en_us_havoc_main_ensemble_vertical_27x40_rgb_pre_1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"havoc\" class=\"wp-image-836453\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s been a long road for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/havoc-new-trailer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Havoc<\/a> to finally come out, the new action thriller from The Raid and The Raid 2 director, Gareth Evans, is finally about to premiere on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix<\/a>. The film stars\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/interview-mobland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Hardy<\/a>, Jessie Mei Li, Justin Cornwell, Quelin Sepulveda, Luis Guzm\u00e1n, Michelle Waterson, Sunny Pang, Jim Caesar, Xelia Mendes-Jones with Yeo Yann Yann, Timothy Olyphant, and Forest Whitaker. Reactions to the movie have started to hit social media.<\/p>\n<p>Rama\u2019s Screen had a very positive reaction, saying, \u201cHAVOC was one of the craziest films I\u2019ve seen this year. A relentless chaotic firepowered thrill ride. And Tom Hardy\u2019s action endurance impressed the hell out of me. The shootouts &amp; the ultra violence had no qualms about reaching the point of overkill. Absolutely insane! #Havoc\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HAVOC was one of the craziest films I&#8217;ve seen this year. A relentless chaotic firepowered thrill ride. And Tom Hardy&#8217;s action endurance impressed the hell out of me. The shootouts &amp; the ultra violence had no qualms about reaching the point of overkill. Absolutely insane!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Havoc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Havoc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B66qVU5AtK\">pic.twitter.com\/B66qVU5AtK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rama&#8217;s Screen (@RamasScreen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RamasScreen\/status\/1912650493140300228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Zachary Lee gets amusingly poetic about the action and violence in the film, but he definitely glows about it too as he says, \u201c#Havoc: Gareth Evans &amp; Tom Hardy show that we\u2019ve only nicked the surface when it comes to depicting on-screen death. Muscular filmmaking at its finest, it\u2019s relentlessly bleak but there\u2019s a twisted catharsis in seeing how it crescendos in brutality. Best night club fight in ages\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Havoc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Havoc<\/a>: Gareth Evans &amp; Tom Hardy show that we\u2019ve only nicked the  surface when it comes to depicting on-screen death. Muscular filmmaking at its finest, it\u2019s relentlessly bleak but there\u2019s a twisted catharsis in seeing how it crescendos in brutality. Best night club fight in ages <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tkbcWkZhrH\">pic.twitter.com\/tkbcWkZhrH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zachary Lee (@zacharoni22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zacharoni22\/status\/1912253972343148814?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Barry Hertz says that this film was worth the long wait, \u201cThe four long years it took for Gareth Evans\u2019 HAVOC to make it to Netflix were worth it \u2013 this is a squib-heavy bloodbath that\u2019s mythic, messy, manic. Missing THE RAID 2\u2019s Mad Dog flavor (and that film\u2019s enjoyably dense gangland-war narrative), but when it rips, it rips so hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The four long years it took for Gareth Evans&#8217; HAVOC to make it to Netflix were worth it \u2013 this is a squib-heavy bloodbath that&#8217;s mythic, messy, manic. Missing THE RAID 2&#8217;s Mad Dog flavor (and that film&#8217;s enjoyably dense gangland-war narrative), but when it rips, it rips so hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barry Hertz (@HertzBarry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HertzBarry\/status\/1912234478254321713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ian Sandwell echoes what people have said in the past about The Raid movies \u2014 that Gareth Evans knows the prime example of action, \u201cGareth Evans is back showing everybody how action should be done in the insanely violent Havoc, coming to Netflix next Friday. There\u2019s one particular club sequence that I cannot stop rewatching, marvelling at the technical audacity of it all. Terrific fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gareth Evans is back showing everybody how action should be done in the insanely violent Havoc, coming to Netflix next Friday. There&#8217;s one particular club sequence that I cannot stop rewatching, marvelling at the technical audacity of it all. Terrific fun. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9kjGHwNbyc\">pic.twitter.com\/9kjGHwNbyc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Sandwell (@ian_sandwell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ian_sandwell\/status\/1912234473686773950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The official synopsis reads,<br \/>\u201cWalker (Tom Hardy) is a bruised detective fighting his way through the criminal underworld threatening to engulf his entire city. In the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong, Walker finds himself with a number of factions on his tail; a vengeful crime syndicate, a crooked politician, as well as his fellow cops. When attempting to rescue the politician\u2019s estranged son, whose involvement in the drug deal starts to unravel a deep web of corruption and conspiracy, he is forced to confront the demons of his past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Havoc\u00a0is directed by Evans from a screenplay he also wrote. The action film is produced by Ed Talfan, Gareth Evans, Aram Tertzakian and Tom Hardy. What do you think of these reactions? Let us know by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n<p>\n            Source:<br \/>\n            X\n        <\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While it\u2019s been a long road for Havoc to finally come out, the new action thriller from The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[10281,77,18294,18295,18296,3943,451,14927,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-30759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-action","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-first-reactions","11":"tag-gareth-evans","12":"tag-havoc-2025","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-netflix","15":"tag-tom-hardy","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114360126266142457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}