HAVOC "Even if you discount how utterly formulaic Evans’s screenplay is in regards to its clunky story in which nothing ever seems to be at stake and unsympathetic cardboard characters or how it wastes such charismatic performers as Hardy, Whitaker and Olyphant or how the whole thing has an ugly and unconvincing faux-gritty sheen that looks like a “Grand Theft Auto” knockoff designed on a computer in need of debugging and focus entirely on the action beats, “Havoc” still comes up short. Evans tries to replicate the wild chaos of peak John Woo but while he certainly supplies an equal amount of bullets and blood (though the CGI gore on display is fairly terrible throughout), he never comes close to approximating the balletic grace and personality that Woo brought to his scenes that made them so striking and beautiful to behold." Info about filmmaker Gareth Evans...Welsh born writer/director, in 2003 directed a short film "Samurai Monogatari" telling the tale of a Samurai waiting to be executed. The short was in Japanese language and starred students from Tokyo who were studying at Cardiff University at the time. In 2003 he also graduated with an MA in Scriptwriting for Film and Television at the University of Glamorgan but it was not until 2006 that he would see his first major production with the self-penned feature "Footsteps". In 2006 the film premiered at the Swansea Bay Film Festival where it was awarded the prize for "Best Film", it has since gone on to receive critical acclaim and is due to be released in the US through extreme cinema label, Unearthed Films in summer 2007. Currently he is directing a documentary for Christine Hakim Films in Indonesia entitled "The Mystic Arts of Indonesia: Pencak Silat". The documentary is one of a five episode series covering the cultural heritage of Indonesia and is expected to broadcast once the series is complete in 2008. Following this he is expected to begin work on a second feature in summer 2007.
PS This is the filmmaker...Gareth Evans from Wales...https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2153088/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm Welsh born writer/director, in 2003 directed a short film "Samurai Monogatari" telling the tale of a Samurai waiting to be executed. The short was in Japanese language and starred students from Tokyo who were studying at Cardiff University at the time.
In 2003 he also graduated with an MA in Scriptwriting for Film and Television at the University of Glamorgan but it was not until 2006 that he would see his first major production with the self-penned feature "Footsteps". In 2006 the film premiered at the Swansea Bay Film Festival where it was awarded the prize for "Best Film", it has since gone on to receive critical acclaim and is due to be released in the US through extreme cinema label, Unearthed Films in summer 2007.
Currently he is directing a documentary for Christine Hakim Films in Indonesia entitled "The Mystic Arts of Indonesia: Pencak Silat". The documentary is one of a five episode series covering the cultural heritage of Indonesia and is expected to broadcast once the series is complete in 2008.
HAVOC "Even if you discount how utterly formulaic Evans’s screenplay is in regards to its clunky story in which nothing ever seems to be at stake and unsympathetic cardboard characters or how it wastes such charismatic performers as Hardy, Whitaker and Olyphant or how the whole thing has an ugly and unconvincing faux-gritty sheen that looks like a “Grand Theft Auto” knockoff designed on a computer in need of debugging and focus entirely on the action beats, “Havoc” still comes up short. Evans tries to replicate the wild chaos of peak John Woo but while he certainly supplies an equal amount of bullets and blood (though the CGI gore on display is fairly terrible throughout), he never comes close to approximating the balletic grace and personality that Woo brought to his scenes that made them so striking and beautiful to behold." Info about filmmaker Gareth Evans...Welsh born writer/director, in 2003 directed a short film "Samurai Monogatari" telling the tale of a Samurai waiting to be executed. The short was in Japanese language and starred students from Tokyo who were studying at Cardiff University at the time. In 2003 he also graduated with an MA in Scriptwriting for Film and Television at the University of Glamorgan but it was not until 2006 that he would see his first major production with the self-penned feature "Footsteps". In 2006 the film premiered at the Swansea Bay Film Festival where it was awarded the prize for "Best Film", it has since gone on to receive critical acclaim and is due to be released in the US through extreme cinema label, Unearthed Films in summer 2007. Currently he is directing a documentary for Christine Hakim Films in Indonesia entitled "The Mystic Arts of Indonesia: Pencak Silat". The documentary is one of a five episode series covering the cultural heritage of Indonesia and is expected to broadcast once the series is complete in 2008. Following this he is expected to begin work on a second feature in summer 2007.
interesting (Pencak silat is amazing. I did some workshops with a visiting indonesian master. As i say, amazing.)
PS This is the filmmaker...Gareth Evans from Wales...https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2153088/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm Welsh born writer/director, in 2003 directed a short film "Samurai Monogatari" telling the tale of a Samurai waiting to be executed. The short was in Japanese language and starred students from Tokyo who were studying at Cardiff University at the time.
In 2003 he also graduated with an MA in Scriptwriting for Film and Television at the University of Glamorgan but it was not until 2006 that he would see his first major production with the self-penned feature "Footsteps". In 2006 the film premiered at the Swansea Bay Film Festival where it was awarded the prize for "Best Film", it has since gone on to receive critical acclaim and is due to be released in the US through extreme cinema label, Unearthed Films in summer 2007.
Currently he is directing a documentary for Christine Hakim Films in Indonesia entitled "The Mystic Arts of Indonesia: Pencak Silat". The documentary is one of a five episode series covering the cultural heritage of Indonesia and is expected to broadcast once the series is complete in 2008.