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If you call a movie RavagedYou would better be ready to deliver exactly that, not a simple chaos or chaos. The Welsh director Gareth Evans provides the complete invoice of goods. Co-creator of televisions London gangsHe made his international reputation as director of the inventive Indonesian actuator with incredible The raid (2011), and here he shows his prowess in an American cop thriller. Tom Hardy, seeming not to have had a front or have slept for an hour since last year BikerideursPlay a homicide detective in an unpertified American city. He is caught in the cross -fires – and the crossed lights are abundant – between a corrupt politician (Whitaker Forest), his own twisted colleagues (led by Timothy Olyphant) and a Chinese triad gang.
Evans and his team – including the director of photography Matt Flannery and the “action designer” Jude Poyer – start with a prosecution on a frantic way involving police cars, a truck and a shipment of washing machines, and never look back. Proud disciple of Hong Kong Action Maestro John Woo, Evans gives us bullet blood baths – slowed down or lighting speed, he does not spoil anything between the two – plus the occasional wave of martial arts. Along the way, it triggers an inventory of a million and a way of killing, mutilating, or reducing a log cabin.
Ravaged is brutal, cynical, ultimately a little repetitive, but made with absolute expertise and a brilliance – while the atmospheres of the dark city (fat, graffiti, steam of the sidewalk lit by neon) are posed with real elegance. There is also a small but significant role for the essential Luis Guzmán, the Borgnine Ernest of our time. As for Hardy (currently seen on the other side of the law in Paramount + Series Mobland), it was clearly done for better things than playing mocking mocking Lunkhead, but, even if little do it with more conviction.
★★★★ ☆
On Netflix from April 25
