Havoc (2025) poster
2025 · action · crime · thriller · drama

Havoc

Directed by Gareth Evans1h 47m2025
ElsewhereIMDb5.664kRT64%Metacritic57
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city's criminal underworld to save a politician's son.

Our read · Havoc (2025) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want one long, brutal Gareth Evans corridor of chaos and gunfire.

ends ambiguousit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 8attention 4/5breezes bysubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencedrug usegore

Skip it tonightSkip if relentless violence and a muddy crime plot will exhaust you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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