Gareth Evans’ long-awaited “Havoc” dropped on Netflix last month, and while the film earned mixed reviews — I was a fan of its B-movie action, atmosphere and intense pacing — it looks like it might’ve landed a particularly high-profile fan: Quentin Tarantino.
During a recent discussion via the Video Archives podcast (via Joblo), “Q.T.” (a pseudonym widely understood to be Tarantino among the community) chimed in during the talkback to sing the film’s praises—though he may have bungled the title.
“Who has seen the Netflix movie Chaos directed by the guy who did The Raid?” he asked, before bluntly adding, “It’s pretty f***ing bad-ass.”
Listeners were quick to point out that the film is actually called “Havoc,” not Chaos—but hey, a Tarantino shoutout is a Tarantino shoutout, and that kind of endorsement from him (misnamed or not) doesn’t come around often these days, unless your name is “Joker: Folie a Deux.”
Tarantino’s taste has always leaned toward the unconventional, the overlooked, the critically scorned — films that most people would either write off or simply not bother to revisit.
One of the clearest examples of this is his love for “Anything Else,” Woody Allen’s 2003 rom-com that barely made a ripple when it came out. Most dismissed it as late-career fluff, but Tarantino? He called it the best film of the 2000s.
Fun fact: Tarantino was at Cannes last week and loved Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague so much, he watched it twice—first at the world premiere, then again the next day at the press-only screening.
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