The Raid Director’s New Action Movie With Tom Hardy Takes Over Netflix’s Top Charts

Tom Hardy is an actor with a lot of pedigree with regard to intense action. According to his roles of Max Rockatansky in “Mad Max: Fury Road” of 2015 and Eddie Brock / Venom in the film trilogy “Venom” at his multiple collaborations with Christopher Nolan, he is a reliable hand each time a project calls a vigorous character with an endless ability of violence. Meanwhile, thanks to his thrillers of Indonesian crime on the martial arts “The Raid” and “The Raid 2”, Gareth Evans has established himself as a filmmaker who is extremely able to make brilliant characters with an almost endless ability to compete in entertaining way.

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Combine these two lights and Netflix, and you get “Havoc”, the hyper-violent shoot them ‘ The fact that the streaming platform fell on April 25, 2025. The premise of a Hardy-Evans team seems to be a promise for a good time, and its audience was clearly ready for this. In fact, according to Flixpatrol“Havoc” came to dominate the list of the 10 best in Netflix in the United States on April 28, “Havoc”. He is now comfortably seated in first place above the tastes of the adventure on the dog of Charles Martin Smith “A Dog’s Way Home”, the criminal drama of the Dutch Apple store “Ihostage” and The biographical drama of Clint Eastwood Biographical War from Clint Eastwood “American Sniper”. Even Gru and the Minions do not correspond to Evans and Hardy, with “Despicable Me 4” having been overthrown in fifth place while he continues his longtime race at the top of the Netflix charts.

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Between his abundant action scenes, “Havoc” tells the story of Patrick Walker (Tom Hardy), a dirty cop who works for the powerful Lawrence Beaumont (Forest Whitaker), whose son Charlie (Justin Cornwell) ends up with deep trouble with the Triades. The rescue mission that followed is better described by the title of the film, and the film is full of the kind of incredible action that you expect from Evans and Hardy … and even gives us a new decent entry on the constantly evolving list of Weird Tom Hardy’s voices.

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The violent and resolutely unusual action of the film informs the spectator with really impressive sets, as well as the shooting game that Evans knows unrealistic. At the same time, there is a logic on the functioning of these scenes, as the filmmaker explained In an exclusive interview with Ben Pearson de / Film. To judge by the success of the immediate streaming of the film, it seems that the viewers of Netflix are satisfied with “Havoc” and the way in which its action takes place.