Havoc - From the Director of The Raid
Havoc - From the Director of The Raid
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SpeedBash

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2,518 posts

203 months

Wednesday 26th February
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SpeedBash

Original Poster:

2,518 posts

203 months

Thursday 24th April
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Lo-Fi

1,077 posts

86 months

Thursday 24th April
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Oh yes, please. I liked 'Apostle' as well.

JagLover

44,982 posts

251 months

Thursday 24th April
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Raid is good and Tom Hardy is usually good.

BUG4LIFE

2,343 posts

234 months

Saturday 26th April
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Just watched this…Christ it’s st!

dieselgrunt

726 posts

180 months

Saturday 26th April
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Hardy is piss poor in this, mumbles all the way through it and is so wooden.
Doesn’t help the script is useless.

Wish

1,639 posts

265 months

Saturday 26th April
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Terrible …… really really bad … 2/10

Geffg

1,301 posts

121 months

Saturday 26th April
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Watched last night and wasn’t impressed. I know films are fake but ffs bit over the top. Was hoping for a good film but disappointed.

Paul_B

843 posts

192 months

Saturday 26th April
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One of the worst films I've ever seen. I usually like Tom Hardy too.

ewolg

1,714 posts

295 months

Saturday 26th April
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Paul_B said:
One of the worst films I've ever seen. I usually like Tom Hardy too.
Ditto, terrible & stopped it a third way through.

Drabbesttunic

1,656 posts

56 months

Sunday 27th April
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I watched it all but agree, it's not the best laugh

oldmanbm

446 posts

221 months

Sunday 27th April
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Very poor and hard to see what it brings to film. Very darkly filmed and no empathy for anyone.

Hippea

2,595 posts

85 months

Sunday 27th April
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Watched it last night, really didn’t like it, didn’t grip my attention at all

popeyewhite

23,007 posts

136 months

Sunday 27th April
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I thought the action scenes in the nightclub were great, a hallmark of the director. The rest was quite poor. Yes Hardy mumbled and a lot of the audio was poorly mixed.

Lotusgone

1,500 posts

143 months

Sunday 27th April
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Jaded copper being a rubbish parent, how original. People saying fk a lot instead of a worthwhile script, borrrrring. Gave up after ten minutes.

L1OFF

3,550 posts

272 months

Monday 28th April
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gave up halfway through the first episode. Opening lorry chase was enough to make me laugh.

P-Jay

11,078 posts

207 months

Monday 28th April
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Complete toss...

4 years in post-production and reshoots should have been enough of a warning.

If I had to bet, it's a collection of footage from a failed production with bucket loads of CGI created scenes cut together to try to make a coherent story and fails.

Mrs said she spotted a few frames with Cardiff Castle in the background, but we lost interest after that.

JoshSm

1,673 posts

53 months

Monday 28th April
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Bearing in mind this was the best they could scrape together after a big delay (filming finished in 2021!) and lots of rework...

I've seem better efforts from stuff that was cancelled part way through filming and completed with spare change.

Takes proper effort to screw up this badly & broadly and as the writer/director/producer, Gareth Evans is the one everyone will point at as responsible.

JoshSm

1,673 posts

53 months

Monday 28th April
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P-Jay said:
If I had to bet, it's a collection of footage from a failed production with bucket loads of CGI created scenes cut together to try to make a coherent story and fails.
Absolutely this. Has the look and stench of a minimal budget salvage job. Sometimes that type of product kind of works and other times absolutely not.

Seen that with Chaos Walking as a recent-ish 'big film' (which had some reasonable effects but was an incoherent mess of fragments from what they had for a trilogy) and other low budget stuff; there was one whose name I can't remember 'finished' based on only 30% of filming having been complete when it collapsed.

P-Jay

11,078 posts

207 months

Monday 28th April
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L1OFF said:
gave up halfway through the first episode. Opening lorry chase was enough to make me laugh.
It's a film rather than a series, but yeah that Lorry could corner like a Eurofighter Typhoon, whilst someone daringly held onto the door.

Sums it up really, the CGI and non-core actor scenes were almost slapstick, but then it cuts back to Tom and Co and there's working on a serious gritty film. I've no interest in watching another second of it, but I'd like to read what the film was supposed to be.