Tsetso_P

This is practically John Wick, but a female version. Sure, there has to be some feministic inclination as it has happened for the last couple of years - a female characters acting like Rambo, Commando, now John Wick... Don't get me wrong, the movie was shot perfectly, the actors are great (Ana gives her best for the fighting scenes, and they are well-choreographed and as exaggerated as some in John Wick's movies), the soundtrack is great, but it is nothing that impressive. I'd say even a bit unnecessary - if the creators want to extend John Wick's world, they must find another way of doing it.

Why start with these titles-The Raid: Redemption, The Raid 2 , Headshot, The Night Comes for Us? The earliest is now over a decade old, yet they remain benchmarks for modern action cinema. All of them are Indonesian, but they share much more than geography:

• Intense, brutal action choreography - These films are renowned for their relentless, close-quarters combat. Every fight is meticulously choreographed and physically exhausting to watch-bone-crunching, raw, and personal.

• Pencak Silat - They heavily showcase this traditional Indonesian martial art, offering a visual language and rhythm to the action that feels distinct from, say, kung fu or karate films.

• Gritty, hyper-violent realism - There's no stylized glamour to the violence. When bones break or blades slice, you feel it. Every hit has consequences.

• Practical stuntwork - With minimal CGI and rare use of wirework, the action is grounded and often performed by the actors and stunt teams themselves. It's not just choreography-it's commitment.

Now contrast that with Havoc:

• Despite having capable actors, the characters feel hollow and underwritten. No matter the talent, you can't salvage scenes that are poorly scripted and lazily directed.

• The action? A mess. Overedited, disorienting, filled with continuity issues. Weapons never run out of ammo, rooms and geography make no sense, and none of it carries weight.

• CGI overload. Roughly a third of the movie seems to rely on poor-quality visual effects-car chases, establishing shots, urban environments. It wouldn't pass in a mid-tier video game, let alone a feature film.

• It wants to be brutal and intense like the aforementioned Indonesian titles, but the choreography is empty mimicry. There's no substance-only surface-level imitation.

The broader issue? Hollywood's current formula. Characters are often written to fulfill demographic quotas or ideological checklists, rather than tell compelling, grounded stories. Women are portrayed as indestructible super-soldiers, minorities as statistical majorities, and everything feels like marketing dressed up as storytelling. The result is a creative vacuum-visually loud, narratively hollow, and emotionally detached.

It's nothing more than a good action heist, but nothing less. Combined with decent acting and various personages (including ethnicity), it represents the average Joe of the criminal underworld in Denmark. It has a good soundtrack too.

The movie is a bit slow, maybe some scenes weren't necessary, just as it wasn't necessary to concentrate on the main characters' unsuccessful career and doing it for the female security guard was also unnecessary, but it wasn't too bad. It is just something that if you cut out of the movie, it won't become worse. The actions and the conversations were chaotic at moments, but I'd say the flaws are acceptable, because overall the movie is fine. I would give it 6.5 stars, but it's not possible.