A convoy of stolen appliances moves through the predawn streets when Charlie and his crew--Mia, Johnny and Wes--rip a shipment of washing machines from a loading dock and load them onto a hooked semi-trailer. The men know the trucks hide more than hardware: inside the metal drums they have discovered a concealed shipment of cocaine. Charlie organizes the pickup and directs the getaway while Mia rides shotgun, Johnny mans the trailer coupling and Wes keeps lookout. They accelerate away across the city, hauling the trailer through congested avenues and industrial underpasses, until a narcotics squad led by Detective Vincent and accompanied by Hayes, Jake and Cortez intercepts them. The pursuit becomes violent and destructive; bullets crack through windshields and ricochet off metal as the semi barrels through intersections. During the chase Cortez takes several rounds and collapses bleeding; his injuries are severe enough that he is pulled from the field and admitted to hospital in critical condition.

That same night Charlie and Mia deliver the contraband to Tsui, the head of the local Triad, at his suburban hideout. Mia's involvement is personal: she had stolen Tsui's car earlier and was coerced into joining this deal to settle her debt to him. Tsui greets the pair with cautious gratitude and sends his enforcers to verify the stash. While Tsui and his men inspect the cargo, a masked assault team suddenly storms the compound, raining automatic fire inside the foyer and shooting Tsui and his bodyguards dead in the hallway. Tsui's lieutenants fall one by one; blood splatters the marble floors and the masked attackers vanish as quickly as they arrived. Johnny spots the first signs of the ambush and shouts a warning to Mia; she and Charlie scramble out of the back as gunfire swells, but several of Tsui's men die before the attackers slip into the night. The masked assailants are later revealed to be in league with Ching, Tsui's resentful lieutenant, who flees the scene shortly after the massacre.

News of the massacre reaches the homicide squad and summons Patrick Walker, an estranged detective who is carrying the weight of a fractured family and an unclean past. Walker answers not just to the badge but to Lawrence Beaumont, a powerful real estate magnate running for mayor and Charlie's father, who keeps Walker on his payroll. Lawrence learns that his son is now implicated in Tsui's murder, and he orders Walker to locate and protect Charlie. Walker takes the assignment and pairs with Ellie, his younger rookie partner, to follow leads. Walker's relationship with the Narcotics squad is fractured--he once teamed with those officers before an operation spiraled and Vincent killed an undercover cop during a bungled theft--so he approaches the case with guarded suspicion.

Walker pays a visit to Cortez in the hospital, where the narcotics detective lies badly wounded from the high-speed pursuit. Cortez is pale, hooked to monitors, and his condition confirms the severity of the earlier exchange. While Walker gathers information, word arrives that Tsui's elder -- the Triad matriarch known as Mother, Tsui's mother -- has flown in and is demanding answers. She confronts Ching in private, accusing him of failing to protect Tsui; Ching, furious and cornered, names Charlie as the culprit. Mother, convinced she must act to avenge her son, decides to escalate by abducting Lawrence Beaumont from his motorcade in broad daylight, taking him hostage to coerce information and reassert Triad authority.

Walker follows a thread that ties Mia to a small-time forger, Raul, her uncle, who is manufacturing passports that could get Charlie and Mia out of the country. Walker breaks into Raul's apartment, snatches his phone and finds a message that suggests the documents are almost ready. Armed with that lead he stakes out a downtown nightclub where he expects Mia to pick up the passports. Inside the club Walker approaches Mia just as Vincent, Hayes and Jake--members of the narcotics team--arrive, and the room fills with tension. Mia, seeing Vincent in the neon haze, points at him and identifies him as the man responsible for Tsui's killing. The accusation sparks a chaotic unraveling: Raul bursts in with the forged passports, Charlie appears with Johnny and Wes, and several Triad members materialize to protect their interests. What begins as confrontation slides into an all-out brawl and then a gunfight when sides draw firearms; the nightclub erupts in gunfire. Hayes is cut down by a spray of bullets during the melee. Raul is shot dead on the stairs. Johnny and Wes take hits from the return fire and collapse in the flash of muzzle blasts. Scores of Triad footsoldiers fall beneath the crossfire and the narcotics squad returns fire. Walker pulls Mia and a wounded Charlie into cover and flees through the back alley amid ringing ears; he carries Charlie to an ambulance and sees him admitted to hospital with bullet wounds.

As Walker digs through the rubble of the nightclub confrontation he pieces together a darker plan. The narcotics detectives who chased the trailer are not merely pursuing justice; they are conspiring to steal the cocaine shipment for themselves. Vincent and his unit had arranged with Ching, who wants Tsui removed so Ching can profit from the deal and possibly assume greater influence within the Triad. Ching's motive is driven by bitterness--he resented being passed over when leadership passed to Tsui's son--and he now has a buyer lined up for the drugs. Walker realizes the lawmen he used to trust have morphed into opportunists who are willing to murder and sabotage to seize the product.

Before Walker can act on the new information, Ching pays a visit to the hospital where Cortez is still recovering. In the quiet ward Ching slips into Cortez's room and shoots the narcotics detective and his wife at point-blank range, killing both of them instantly and leaving bodies on the linoleum. Ellie, sent by Walker to stand guard over Cortez, bursts into the room moments later and engages Ching in a close-quarters struggle. She incapacitates him with decisive force and takes him into custody.

Walker removes Charlie and Mia from the city and drives them to his father's old cabin on the outskirts, a remote property with dense trees between it and the county line. He barricades the house and tends to Charlie's wounds as best he can. The three remain on the run, guarded by gunny chests and Walker's steady vigilance. Mother, enraged and determining to mete out family justice, traces them to the cabin. Her forces encircle the property and open fire in a coordinated assault. Triad gunmen crouch behind trees and machine-gun fire tears through the underbrush. Walker and Charlie return fire from the porch and the kitchen; bullets notch the siding and splinter wooden beams as they fight to hold the position. Walker moves through the house, trading shots and engaging in hand-to-hand struggles with attacking assassins. In a brutal fight near the garage Walker confronts Mother's lead enforcer, a female assassin who comes at him with knives and a suppressed pistol; Walker is wounded in the skirmish but manages to draw his sidearm and shoot her dead, collapsing against the hood of a pickup as she falls.

Despite their resistance, Triad operatives breach the perimeter and drag Charlie and Mia from the cabin. They force Lawrence Beaumont, brought there by Mother as leverage, to stand publicly before his accused son. Mother stands among her guards and orders Lawrence to execute Mia, believing Charlie responsible for Tsui's death; she demands he shoot the woman as proof of his loyalty and the Triad's authority. With a revolver pressed into his hands and the barrel pointed at Mia, Lawrence hesitates under the cold stare of Mother. He refuses, and the standoff reaches a boiling point.

Ellie closes the loop on the conspiracy while working outside the firefight. She moves swiftly and captures Vincent and Jake and brings them into custody, delivering them bound to the scene along with the already-captured Ching. With her hands on the old cold case evidence and the perpetrators in hand, she stands in the cabin clearing and reveals each of their roles to the gathered players: Vincent and his men had conspired with Ching to orchestrate Tsui's death and seize the cocaine for sale. Ellie presents intercepted messages and witness testimony explaining Ching's motive--jealousy over Triad leadership transitions following the death of the previous boss.

When Ellie forces the truth into the open, Ching answers her accusations with venom. He admits he arranged the masked hit on Tsui because he believed himself entitled to the ascent in power his sister denied him. As the confession echoes across the courtyard, Ching's loyalists and Mother's guards erupt in violence once more. In the chaos Ching and cadres aligned to him shoot Mother and several of her closest lieutenants dead; bullets tear through patrons and the matriarch collapses where she stands. Ching turns a pistol on Vincent and wounds him in the chest; Vincent staggers but manages to bring his own weapon up and fire back, shooting Ching through the torso. Mortally wounded by that return shot, Ching slumps to the ground. Vincent grabs the cocaine from a nearby crate as his men scatter; he flees the scene with the drugs, racing away to secure the payoff he had always wanted.

Jake uses the distraction to break free of his bindings and bolts toward Charlie with a pistol raised. He squeezes the trigger in a bid to end Charlie for his part in the Triad bloodshed and to silence the only witness who could implicate him. Seeing the shot aimed at his son, Lawrence throws himself between them and takes the bullet in his chest; he sinks to the floor dying in Charlie's arms, his blood staining the collar of his suit. Jake tries to escape but Charlie raises his own weapon and shoots Jake through the chest, killing him on the spot and avenging his father by the barrel of his revolver.

Vincent runs toward the train line with the cocaine lashed in a duffel over his shoulder. Walker gives chase, limping from his wounds but steady, and catches up with Vincent as he boards a commuter train trying to cross the river. On the platform and then aboard the moving car the two men exchange blows and gunfire. Vincent fires first and strikes Walker in the torso, knocking the breath out of him. Walker forces himself up and returns fire; he shoots Vincent in the chest, killing him on the train between stations. The duffel containing the cocaine tumbles down the steps and spills onto the metal floor as the emergency brakes screech. Walker collapses to his knees over the body, bleeding and exhausted.

With the scene secured and the immediate killers dead or detained, uniformed police units begin to arrive in numbers. Ellie stands over Charlie and Mia as law enforcement converges on the cabin. Facing the encroaching legal machinery--internal affairs, homicide and the Beaumont political contingency--Ellie makes a decision: she allows Charlie and Mia the chance to slip away. She loosens their constraints, gives them back the passports that Raul had forged and directs them along a back road that will take them across the county line. Ellie takes that risk despite orders and reports that will lash her to the fallout of the case.

Walker cannot stand. He is grievously wounded from the train gunfight and the cabin assault; blood soaks his shirt and his movements are sluggish. He urges Ellie to do what is right in the eyes of the badge and presses for arrest, telling her to book him. Ellie refuses to handcuff him; she steadies him as the first police cruisers pull into the clearing and floodlights spin slow arcs across the damaged property. Walker watches the arriving officers and sees the city's law apparatus descend on the scene, his future uncertain. He sits propped against the cabin's porch railing as the noise of radios and shouted orders swells, the night surrounding him and the survivors, while Charlie and Mia disappear down a service road toward the border and a new life away from the blood that followed them.

The movie Havoc (2025) ends with a violent showdown where Walker, Mia, and Charlie are trapped at Walker's father's cabin by Triad attackers. After a brutal battle, Charlie and Mia are captured. Walker kills the Assassin but is badly wounded. Mother arrives and forces a deadly game of Russian Roulette with Mia. Subsequently, betrayals come to light, a fierce gunfight ensues, and Walker kills Vincent. Ellie captures the villains and allows Charlie and Mia to escape as Walker faces uncertain consequences with the police arriving.

Expanded Ending Description of Havoc (2025)

The climax unfolds as Walker, Mia, and Charlie take refuge at Walker's father's old cabin located on the outskirts of the city. This isolated setting quickly becomes a battleground as the Triads, having tracked them down, launch a massive, coordinated assault. Gunfire erupts, and the trio fights fiercely, managing to kill many attackers but ultimately cannot prevent Charlie and Mia from being captured in the chaos.

Walker is confronted by the Assassin, Mother's lead enforcer, resulting in a savage and brutal hand-to-hand fight. Despite sustaining severe wounds, Walker kills the Assassin, showcasing his unyielding resilience and combat skill.

Soon after, Mother arrives with her bodyguards and Lawrence, still under the mistaken belief that Charlie is responsible for Tsui's death. She cruelly forces Lawrence to play Russian Roulette with Mia, a tense and harrowing moment highlighting the ruthless stakes in their world.

Meanwhile, Ellie is at work uncovering deeper betrayals. She uses Ching to lure Vincent and Jake to an abandoned rail yard, where she captures both. Ching confesses that his motive was jealousy over being passed up for Triad leadership in favor of Tsui's sister's son, exposing the fractured loyalties within the criminal network.

Tensions explode as Jake breaks free and attempts to shoot Charlie. Lawrence sacrifices himself by shielding Charlie, dying in his arms, underscoring the tragic cost of loyalty. Ching and his loyalists shoot Mother and her allies, killing them in a sudden power shift.

Vincent is wounded by Ching, but then Vincent shoots Ching and flees with the cocaine shipment. Walker pursues Vincent to a train yard, where a confrontation leads to Vincent shooting Walker. Walker retaliates, shooting Vincent dead, ending the cocaine hijacking plot.

Back at the rail yard, Ellie and Jake engage in a final struggle, with Jake nearly shooting Ellie before Charlie intervenes and kills Jake, avenging his father.

With the police closing in, Ellie allows Charlie and Mia to escape. She is left with a grievously wounded Walker, who urges her to arrest him. Ellie refuses, and the film closes with Walker looking uncertainly at the arriving police cars, leaving his fate ambiguous.

This ending shows a descent into chaos and betrayal within the criminal underworld while emphasizing the intertwined fates of the characters caught in the violence and power struggles.

The 2025 film Havoc features multiple character deaths, largely occurring amid intense shootouts and betrayals within the criminal underworld:

• Triads and associates killed in nightclub shootout: During a chaotic confrontation at a nightclub arranged to recover forged passports, several characters die. These include Hayes, Raul (Mia's uncle who was forging passports), Johnny, Wes, and numerous Triad members sent by a character named Mother.

• Cortez and his wife murdered in hospital: After the nightclub events, a character named Ching arrives at the hospital and murders Cortez and his wife. Ellie, sent to protect Cortez, subsequently pursues and captures Ching.

• Lawrence dies shielding Charlie: In a confrontation revealing traitors within the Triads, Jake attempts to shoot Charlie, but Lawrence sacrifices himself by shielding Charlie and dies in his arms.

• Mother and loyalists shot by traitorous Triad members: Ching and his loyalists shoot Mother and her followers dead during another violent shootout.

• Jake is shot by Charlie: During a fight between Ellie and Jake, Jake nearly kills Ellie but is shot dead by Charlie in retaliation for earlier violence involving his father.

• Vincent killed by Walker: Vincent, who killed Tsui, tries to flee but is shot and wounded by Walker. After Vincent shoots Walker, Walker returns fire and kills Vincent.

• Beaumont takes a bullet for Charlie: At the film's climax, Tsui's mother and Ping arrive to exact vengeance on Charlie. Beaumont sacrifices himself by shielding Charlie and taking a bullet meant for him.

• Walker severely wounded but survives: Walker kills the Assassin, Mother's lead enforcer, in a brutal fight but is badly wounded himself.

The deaths occur mainly as a result of the violent power struggles between rival Triad factions, betrayal, and Walker's efforts to protect Charlie, Mia, and resolve the chaos unleashed by a drug deal gone wrong. The film closes on Walker's uncertain fate as police arrive, following his final confrontation with Vincent.

The 2025 film Havoc does not have a post-credit scene. Unlike many recent big-budget action movies that include scenes after the credits to tease sequels or spin-offs, Havoc ends without any additional scenes following the credits. The film's final moments focus on the main character Walker, played by Tom Hardy, as he remains wounded and surrounded by approaching cop cars, with the screen fading to black after the credits roll.

The director, Gareth Evans, has indicated that Havoc was intended as a standalone story, though there is intrigue around the future of Walker's character. However, no post-credit content was included to explore what happens next.

The main conflicts in Havoc (2025) revolve around a bruised detective fighting through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician's estranged son after a drug deal goes wrong. This journey uncovers a deep web of corruption and conspiracy involving Triad leadership struggles, betrayal, and violent power plays among criminal factions.

Key antagonists include Ching, who plots to kill Tsui out of jealousy for being passed over for Triad leadership, and Vincent, who is involved in hijacking a cocaine shipment for personal profit. Tsui's mother, Clarice Fong, also plays a significant role as a Triad boss seeking vengeance for her son's death.

Relationships such as the detective Walker's protective role over Charlie and Mia, the betrayal by Ching against his family, and the complex alliances and rivalries within the Triad families drive the plot. These dynamics lead to shootouts, captures, and shifting loyalties that escalate the violence and tension throughout the story.

Pivotal action scenes include a massive nightclub shootout involving multiple Triad factions, a brutal fight between Walker and the Assassin (Mother's lead enforcer), and a large-scale assault on Walker's father's cabin where Charlie and Mia are captured. The climax features a violent shootout where Charlie uses a machine gun to eliminate enemies, and Walker confronts Vincent in a deadly standoff.

The film explores loyalty and betrayal through Ching's jealousy and betrayal of his family, Vincent's double-crossing to hijack the cocaine deal, and the shifting allegiances among Triad members. These betrayals lead to violent consequences, including murders and shootouts, highlighting the fragile and dangerous nature of trust in the criminal underworld.

The 2025 movie Havoc is not family friendly and is rated TV-MA, indicating it is intended for mature audiences and unsuitable for children under 17.

Potentially objectionable or upsetting content includes:

• Graphic and gratuitous violence: Numerous intense gunfights, brutal beatings, stabbing, and execution-style killings are shown in detail, with visible blood, injuries, and many dead bodies.
• Strong language: The film contains over 100 sexual expletives, many other profanities, and terms of deity used harshly.
• Drug-related themes: The plot revolves around illegal drug trade, with scenes showing drug dealing, drug labs, and drug-related violence. Although drugs are shown, no drug use is depicted.
• Alcohol and smoking: Adults drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes in several scenes.
• Sexual content: There is no explicit sexual content, but some suggestive dancing, brief kissing, and revealing clothing appear in club scenes.
• Intense and frightening scenes: The film features severe intensity with perilous car chases, police corruption, and deaths of police officers and bystanders, which may be disturbing for sensitive viewers.

Given these elements, Havoc contains strong violence, pervasive strong language, and mature themes that make it inappropriate for children and potentially upsetting for sensitive individuals.

In the 2025 movie titled Havoc, there is no indication that a dog dies. The plot summaries and detailed descriptions of the film's events focus on a detective navigating a criminal underworld to rescue a politician's son, involving shootouts, betrayals, and gang conflicts, but no mention is made of a dog dying or any scenes involving a dog's death.

Additionally, a news story from 2025 about a French bulldog named Havoc who disappeared and was later found alive further supports that the dog does not die in connection with the movie or its storyline.

Therefore, based on available information, the dog does not die in the movie Havoc (2025).