The Raid' director Gareth Evans' bloody action bonanza lays waste to a fictive American metropolis, pitting dirty cops against Asian gangsters.

The action in "Havoc" is too good for there to be so little of it, but there's no denying the fun of watching Tom Hardy blast a hole through a Gareth Evans movie.

The long-delayed Tom Hardy vehicle — it completed production in 2021 — has just enough by way of visual panache to set it apart from the usual crop of forgettable, straight-to-streaming action. With a story that's nothing to write home about,