Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans burst onto the action scene with The Raid (2011) and The Raid 2 (2014), a bone-crushing brace of visceral Indonesian martial arts films that propelled its leading men to international stardom.

His new film, Havoc, stars Tom Hardy and trades the sweaty streets of Jakarta for a gritty unnamed city on the United States’ east coast in the midst of a blood-soaked gang war.

Shooting the film in the UK was a gruelling process stalled by the Covid-19 pandemic, union strikes and clashing schedules.

But Havoc arrives on Netflix on April 25, with an international cast including Timothy Olyphant, Jessie Mei Li, Sunny Pang and Yeo Yann Yann.

Read my full South China Morning Post interview here