Jessie Mei Li, Timothy Olyphant and Forest Whitaker also star in Gareth Evans’ neo-noir about a compromised detective caught between Triad killers and crooked fellow cops.

At first, "Havoc" sounds like just another one of those generic, one-word titles Hollywood slaps on action movies to convey a terse, efficient shoot-'em-up. Why give such projects a long-winded name like "A Clear and Present Danger" or "Every Which Way but Loose" when you can find something punchy like "Taken,

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.