Havoc’s violent, breathtaking pace continues right up until the end, when all of the characters must come to terms with their actions

For the most part, Havoc was filmed in a studio in Cardiff, Wales, on movie sets. Though the film takes place in an unnamed city in the United States, director Gareth Evans is from Wales, and wanted to shoot a little closer to home.

The elevator pitch is pretty snappy: Tom Hardy plays a homicide detective named Walker with a very chequered past, and the scars to show for it. On a mission to locate a corrupt politician’s son, he finds himself squaring off against just about everybody as he carves his way through the criminal underworld and unearths various dark conspiracies.