A Constant Visual Feast

My experience with Havoc as a project, and not as a finished film, is the sort to give me temporal whiplash. I’ve heard about production for what feels like years, and, sometime in 2023, to my recollection, the work fell off my radar and so too did the movie itself – pop culture flotsam dragged out to see, replaced by the next round of rumormongering and entertainment journalism’s detritus. 

Then the first teaser dropped, featuring a shot of Tom Hardy stomping a guy through a wooden floor, and that’s when I decided for sure that I’d seek out a conversation with the film’s director, Welshman and tastemaker for modern action cinema Gareth Evans. It’s not every day I get to interview someone for the second time; apart from, say, Anya Taylor-Joy, it’s barely happened for me at all. But the seven year gap between this and Apostle, his last Netflix movie, made our latest back and forth all the more satisfying, and besides that, I think turned into a pretty good feature on one of the year’s best-to-date action movies.

Read all about it over at Time.com, for my first byline there.