The action in "Havoc" is too good for there to be so little of it, but there's no denying the fun of watching Tom Hardy blast a hole through a Gareth Evans movie.

The Raid' director Gareth Evans' bloody action bonanza lays waste to a fictive American metropolis, pitting dirty cops against Asian gangsters.

A generic cops-and-drug-dealers saga infused with occasional chaos, Gareth Evans' Havoc is a decent time, despite its plateauing excess. The long-delayed Tom Hardy vehicle — it completed production in 2021 — has just enough by way of visual panache to set it apart from the usual crop of forgettable, straight-to-streaming action.