HAVOC | Official Teaser | Directed by Gareth Evans (The Raid)

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After a drug deal gone wrong, a bruised detective must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician's estranged son, while unravelling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares his entire city.

HAVOC is a high octane action thriller written and directed by Gareth Evans (The Raid, Gangs of London), and starring Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Justin Cornwell, Quelin Sepulveda, Luis Guzmán, Michelle Waterson, Sunny Pang, Jim Caesar, Xelia Mendes-Jones with Yeo Yann Yann, Timothy Olyphant, and Forest Whitaker.

Coming to Netflix on April 25.

Looks solid 👀👀
 
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An action movie with actors who are as agile as wooden planks....
 
Filming a visual movie (action) at night when the audience can't see $*#% is a red flag.
You can use bad words, you are on the internet

The problem isn't filming at night. A well done night scene can add atmosphere and style, but if the audience can't see anything, that's just bad filmmaking

These top rated movies have good night scenes:

Collateral
Heat
John Wick
The Dark Knight
Blade Runner 2049
The Batman
No Country For Old Men
Sicario
Drive

And that's just off the top of my head
 
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You can use bad words, you are on the internet

The problem isn't filming at night. A well-done night scene can add atmosphere and style, but if the audience can't see anything, that's just bad filmmaking

These have good night scenes:

Collateral
Heat
John Wick
The Dark Knight
Blade Runner 2049
The Batman
No Country For Old Men
Sicario
Drive

And that's just off the top of my head
Of that list, how many had trailers with exclusive night shots?

Only Collateral and that was hardly an action movie. It leveraged it's night shots using atmosphere, which is much more valid than utilizing night shots to cover up shoddy action scenes.

This has major red flags.
 
Of that list, how many had trailers with exclusive night shots?

Only Collateral and that was hardly an action movie. It leveraged it's night shots using atmosphere, which is much more valid than utilizing night shots to cover up shoddy action scenes.

This has major red flags.
Major red flag is forming movie opinions based on trailers instead of actually watching them

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Filming a visual movie (action) at night when the audience can't see $*#% is a red flag.
I rewatched the trailer and pretty much every scene had sufficient lighting. Maybe increase the brightness of your screen.

If you don't think your product compares favorably, you obfuscate the view to trick your audience into filling in the blanks with their mind.

This knowledge should be baked into your DNA.
A true snake oil salesman. Speaking at length without conveying anything meaningful.
 
Imagine buying a new car or a diamond ring from someone who didn't want to turn the lights on.

"Hey, can you turn the lights on and let me see what you're selling here?"

"The lighting is sufficient."

Snake oil salesmen indeed. I'm sure people who bought that stuff would defend it against those who laughed at them too.
 
Gareth Evans would usually get me hyped. But Netflix has this uncanny ability to get talented people to release absolute turds, so I guess I'll wait for reviews.
 
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Imagine buying a new car or a diamond ring from someone who didn't want to turn the lights on.

"Hey, can you turn the lights on and let me see what you're selling here?"

"The lighting is sufficient."

Snake oil salesmen indeed. I'm sure people who bought that stuff would defend it against those who laughed at them too.
This has to be trolling.
 
Great supporting cast, Forest Whittaker and Tim Olyphant are going to make sure that Tom Hardy isn't phoning it in.
 
That's not an action movie. The night can obviously be used to great effect to establish tone. HAVOC is an action movie.
Keep shifting the goalposts, buddy. You clearly said, "Whenever I see a movie that takes place at night, I see a high probability of it sucking."

Now, all of a sudden, it only applies to action movies?
 
You're missing out on a lot of good movies with that attitude.
Maybe he is just a vampire and is tired of perpetual night. Only way he can see the sun is through film :P

Though I do agree that with the demise of "blue filtered daylight stands in for nighttime" cinematography it has become a lot harder to follow action in true nighttime scenes if the DP or whoever isn't really good. Even the old classic "spotlight just out of frame lighting up everything in the dark woods" trick isn't used much anymore. Everyone thinks they are Michael Mann and can extract detail from low light with digital but it ain't so.
 
Action movies and CGI movies.
All of these movies have their main action set pieces taking place at night

Terminator 2
Terminator
Titanic
Avatar 2
Collateral
Alien franchise
The extraction 2 has an amazing night action sequence
1917 has an amazing one shot action sequence taking place at night
 
All of these movies have their main action set pieces taking place at night

Terminator 2
Terminator
Titanic
Avatar 2
Collateral
Alien franchise
The extraction 2 has an amazing night action sequence
1917 has an amazing one shot action sequence taking place at night
All movies with trailers that featured day time shots. You guys are pushing back against something I never even said.
 
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Gareth Evans is undeniably one of the greatest action directors working today. And now, over a decade after he delivered The Raid 2, he's back with his first action movie since that head-exploding sequel. Make way for HAVOC, a bruising crime thriller packed with wince-worthy action – this time with Tom Hardy in the leading role. And where The Raid and its follow-up leaned into the martial arts prowess of Evans' regular collaborator Iko Uwais, the brawls in HAVOC are tailored to Hardy's hulking physique.

"It was never going to be a martial-arts film," Evans tells Empire, speaking to a subtle shift in action sub-genres. "I wanted this to feel like the gunplay stuff that I love watching." You'll see Hardy blasting a shotgun above, but HAVOC also makes use of the A-lister's sheer heft. "Tom came to us in fucking beast mode," says Evans. "I tapped him on the shoulder and it was just like granite. He came fully physically prepared." All of that is channelled into Walker, a detective having a very, very bad night. "Walker is not silky-smooth. He's gonna cause as much carnage and as much mayhem as possible," Evans promises. "He's not grabbing your wrist and turning you into an arm lock. He's grabbing you by the scruff of the neck and driving your face into the nearest heavy object." Ooft.

Expect more of Evans' propensity for turning everyday objects into objects of terror in the middle of a do-or-die showdown. "There's a sequence in a fishing shack where it's like an onslaught, a relentless attack," the director teases, promising guns, hooks, and harpoons galore. "Every corner of this place someone's going to pop up with a gun, someone's going to pop up with a knife, and they're going to come from under the floorboards, around the corners, through this window, through that window." Sounds like pure havoc.
 
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