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Havoc Feels Like a Grand Theft Auto Adaptation (Derogatory)
Tom Hardy plays a dirty cop in the new movie from the director of The Raid, which is all cool elements and no coherence.
Its main character, a corrupt homicide detective named Walker, is played by English actor Tom Hardy in a variation on the knock-around nasal accent he came up with for Capone and hasn’t been entirely able to shake since, a tough-guy inflection more grounded in the big screen than in any real-life region. His breakthrough was 2011’s The Raid, the second of the three films he’s made with Iko Uwais, an Indonesian martial artist Evans met when shooting a doc about silat and whose physical skills and gravitas on-camera have since led to roles in Expend4bles and Peter Berg’s Mile 22. Evans has assembled a worthy cast and has crammed his film full of what should be fun elements, and yet the final result is weirdly without joy — akin to filling your plate with all your favorite foods at a buffet, only to sit down and realize you have no appetite to eat it.
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