Netflix subscribers have propelled The Raid director Gareth Evans' new Tom Hardy-led action-thriller to the top of the streamer's charts stateside.

After spending four years in development, Gareth Evans’ action movie starring Tom Hardy and Jessie Mei Li is finally streaming on Netflix.

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.