Havoc (2025) review

Grizzled homicide detective Walker (Tom Hardy), who has a history of unethical behavior, is assigned a new partner, Ellie (Jessie Mei Li), and finds himself in a terrible situation: he's asked to protect Charlie (Justin Cornwell), the son of wannabe politician Beaumont (Forest Whitaker), and is stuck in the middle of a conflict between Chinese mobsters (led by Yeo Yann Yann), other rogue cops (with Timothy Olyphant as their leader) and a particularly dangerous washing machine.  It's peculiar that director Evans is currently working on a TV show (Gangs of London, based on the PlayStation Portable game) because the majority of American crime programs that I've seen at least have the courtesy of trying to keep the audience involved and informed, which this can't be bothered doing.  It's an irritatingly sloppy feature, and half the running time goes by before it decides to distract the viewer from whatever story it thinks it's telling with nonstop gunfire and bodies shot to pieces.  The incessantly jiggling camera, which often seems like it was placed on a tripod made out of Jell-O, doesn't make it any better, either.