The elevator pitch is pretty snappy: Tom Hardy plays a homicide detective named Walker with a very chequered past, and the scars to show for it. On a mission to locate a corrupt politician’s son, he finds himself squaring off against just about everybody as he carves his way through the criminal underworld and unearths various dark conspiracies.

The new Netflix movie Havoc is one of the most action-heavy films Tom Hardy has ever been in, the star reveals, likening it to Warrior, Mad Max: Fury Road and the Venom trilogy.

Havoc’s violent, breathtaking pace continues right up until the end, when all of the characters must come to terms with their actions