Hollywood star Tom Hardy’s new action film Havoc has dropped on Netflix, but it has divided the critics and many viewers have taken issue with some of its effects
Tom Hardy’s new movie has been slated by fans who reckon it looks “fake”.
Action flick Havoc follows a gang of criminals involved in drug crimes, with Hollywood star Tom as homicide detective Patrick Walker. The movie, which dropped on Netflix this month, has a starry cast including the likes of Forest Whitaker and Timothy Olyphant as well as martial arts star Tom and plenty of action scenes.
But many viewers were left unimpressed with the star tipped to play Bond, savaging the way the movie looked and some of its effects. Some branded it “trash” and others expressed their disappointment, insisting it hadn’t lived up to the hype.
“Was it just me or was the new movie #Havoc on @netflix weird,” one fan posted on X. “The filming felt so fake and honestly couldn’t finish watching it. Hope this isn’t the future of movies because it was trash lol.”
Another sniped that Havoc included “some of the worst CGI scenes I’ve ever seen”, and another viewer asked: “What did happen for the CGI to not look good in the movie Havoc? Tight deadline? Not good directions? It’s too bad.”
Someone else commented: “Chucked on Havoc (2025) and I’m a big fan of director Gareth Evans. But it opens with a semi trailer truck and police chase that looks like something out of a PS4 video game cut scene. Holy s*** is the use of CGI horrendous straight off the bat. Please get better!”
“Am I crazy or are a lot of scene in this movie like… totally CG,” one viewer asked on Reddit. “The cars. The buildings. Some times I look at a scene and it just feels… fake?”
“At points it looked like a game,” remarked somebody else. “Felt like I was playing Batman or something.”
“Yeah I thought it all looked weird,” another agreed. “The cityscapes looked cheap and fake, and the cuts during the action were way too frequent and too jerky – thought we’d left that trend well behind with the John Wick movies showing how unnecessary they were.”
“It didn’t even seem like CGI… it felt so fake to me,” another viewer said. “I felt like they used some cheap AI programme. Especially the beginning seen with the cop cars, such trash.”
Havoc also received mixed reviews from the critics, with The Guardian giving it just two out of five stars and Screen Rant saying that it’s “story is a disappointment because of how unoriginal it is”. However, it scooped four out of five stars in The Telegraph, with the reviewer calling it an “operatically gruesome, eye-wideningly inventive action movie”.
It also landed a four-star review at Empire magazine, where it was described as a “fist-flinging fever-dream”. The reviewer also praised Tom’s performance, saying: “The actor is a master at playing wounded, war-beaten outliers and wears the role comfortably.”
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