Ravage on Netflix: Gareth Evans deciphers the shock scene of the film

“This bottling scene is the essence of the film …” explains for first the director of the new brutal thriller worn by Tom Hardy.

Almost 15 years ago, Gareth Evans overturned the action film table with The raid. The Welsh filmmaker is coming back to us this year on Netflix with a thriller that hurts a lot. Havocwhich means total chaos, has been translated by Ravaged in French and place Tom Hardy In the shoes of a very upset shock cop, which infiltrates the world of organized crime to save the son of a politician.

From Castagne to all floors. A pure fighting film that slams as strong as the bullets are spinning. The shock and scathing scenes are linked, but one of them is particularly a lot. Halfway, a brutal and completely crazy shooting in the heart of a traffic jam resonates like the flagship moment of the film. And Gareth Evans valid :

“Everyone talks about the nightclub or the fishing hut, but this traffic jam is the essence of the film, it’s a declaration of intention” explains the director in an interview published in the new first issue currently on newsstands (with Mission: Impossible on the cover). For us he deciphers the sequence and evokes his influences:

“In the midst of Christmas traffic jam, guys land on motorcycles with pump rifles and rob the car of Forrest Whittaker. It says everything about the character of the mother. I put in these five minutes all that I learned from Peckinpah and John Woo. For a good action scene, you need a good, well -exposed, and a good mean.”

Boardless killers, a terrorized Forest Whitaker … and a silent assassin on a motorcycle! “”It is Michelle Waterson ! “ enthuses Gareth Evans.

“Her character does not pronounce a word, but she overflows from the screen. She is pure presence. When she knocks on the window of the car and the camera decreases to show the pump rifle, it’s as if a grenade exploded in the film. And I admit, the camera movement that goes in the opposite direction to the pump rifle, it’s my tribute to the heroic cinema of Hong Kong. The opening of Dead or Alive.. “

And Tom Hardy is not even in the sequence … that is to say!

Ravagedto see currently in streaming on Netflix.