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Havoc
A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang. Suddenly, their role-playing seems a little too real.
Release : | 2005 |
Rating : | 5.5 |
Studio : | New Line Cinema, Media 8 Entertainment, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Anne Hathaway Bijou Phillips Shiri Appleby Michael Biehn Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
Genre : | Drama Crime |
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Too much of everything
Sadly Over-hyped
Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
This is a movie about some vapid white broads. That chick from some Disney flick was in it. Some people think she's hot; meh, if you like potato chips. Her boyfriend buys some sticks and stems from some lil bite sized vato with a NKOTB ponytail. Next thing you know, Disney chick is trying to earn her merit badge for humping an authentic brown person. One of her lame friends insists she wants to take on three brown wieners at the same time, therefore making her the most coolest girl in their white suburbanite high school. But as it turns out, she tapped out after two. So she runs out of the room crying because her sphincter is irritated. Next thing you know, three poor hombres are getting charged with rape. Moral of this movie? Never trust a succubus white she devil...Oh and that one dude from Training Day was in it. I liked him though. He was cool. That is all.
It is not really the movie itself I want to talk about. The movie itself is quite disappointing. Seems the Walt Disney actress took on a challenge to prove she was all nicely grown up, and bared her breasts, and I'm not complaining, only she should have done that in a better movie. Kind of like "the only thing HAVOC got going for it, is : you know that chick from THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA? Bares her breasts here." Psst! Little Suzy next door's favorite flick THE PRINCESS DIARIES, better not let little Suzy see this one! She'd be traumatized!The movie can only be fun if you're partial to gang-bangers and the lowlife hip-hop lifestyle. A girl like Anne Hathaway seems very obviously to have a brain that is too interconnected to fall for these dung-beetles. She is playing against type, and she fails miserably at it. Oddly enough, Bijou Philips, whom I like, make no mistake, fits in. She seems convincingly jaded enough, I suppose I'm trying to say. But I fail to see what any (white, privileged) girl would see in the cockroaches. Physical attraction? Aren't we guys always reminded in typical youth culture shows (90210, THE O.C.) that girls only go for the coolest guys? And girls tend to dress up as if they're going out to the prom every night of their lives. Why would they want to be with scumbag baboons? Stick with me and I'll reveal the answer!It's not because they find these miscreants attractive. Not even their own mothers could find hoodlums attractive. It's the thrill of danger. They get all excited about being SO OUT THERE and they get off on their own excitement. It is why Allison so earnestly explains everything with "we get so ****ing bored!"It is a sad state when the youth of a great nation, the greatest nation ever, is so corrupted by cheap influences. Be worried, White America, be very worried. Your borders were infiltrated from within, and you're going to sink, and there's nothing that Homeland Security can do. A cultural revolution has undermined the standards of decency. The communists have won. The devil's music indeed.I'm sorry but these are the thoughts racing through my mind watching this. I believe in the beautiful creation that is mankind as I used to know it, the all-American look of days now gone by, I do not like to see it thrown away.Wake up, decent America. For the sake of your daughters. And the beautiful fair-skinned babies they are no longer going to have once this world becomes a melting pot of mixed races.I repeat that the movie itself is mostly a bummer. It does evoke very strong feelings though, as you could hear.By the way, I'd bet all the dollars in the world Anne Hathaway couldn't have enjoyed filming this. I think she still shudders thinking back about it.
Plot kicks off right away with the rich Hollywood teens fighting on a beach,, thats being documented by a friend.. bored of the lives they lead they go in search to see what the life on the poorer sides of town are like. where toby(annes boyfriend) tries to give attitude to 1 of the drugdealers (hector)who in turn threaten to shoot him until anne steps in and pleads.. he spares toby for her. which makes her lust after hector wanting to learn more about hector and where he lives.. I can only imagine that maybe its men giving this a poor rating .. I personally really like this film.. its defo suppose to be a erotic piece a bit of girls fantasy.. if ladies have a thing for Latin men or badboys with a good heart this will probably be for you .. The most irritating part of the film has to be when Bijou starts screaming false rape after getting too drunk and letting several members of the gang bang her at the same time ...... It also has a great soundtrack.. unfortunately some of the songs arnt listed on the credits like "si te gusta" by minus P .. so if anyone has a copy of it let me download it please!!!! lol
Many people complain that this film is anything but good, and they dismiss it as simple trash that overreached while trying to be affecting. Well, I'm not one of them. I am one of those who think this is, in fact, an interesting film, and very well worth the hour and a half I spent watching it.I suppose most of the negative reviews towards this film come from the fact that it did not reach the expectations people had of it. I mean take director Barbara Kopple (yes, the documentary genius director), screenwriter Stephen Gaghan (who also wrote classics like Traffic and Syriana) and Anne Hathaway in a powerfully explosive role...you'd normally expect a highly artistic, disturbingly deep and intelligent film. This film isn't any of the above, even though it TRIES to be. Nevertheless, as I've mentioned before, it does have an interesting enough plot.It's about two rich teenagers (Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips) who are going through their rebellious teenager stage where drinking, heavy flirting and hanging out with the tough guys is in vogue. They decide to cross over from their posh neighborhoods into downtown East side, (the Latino side, really) where hard drugs, gang violence and gun fights are at the order of the day. These teens are impressed (to put it mildly) with how "real" everything seems in the East side, and are soon begging to be admitted into the hazardous Latino gang...with expectable detrimental results.The film tries to discuss really profound and disturbing points of view, and even though it DOES tackle some issues, it all seems a bit off. Hathaway is, of course, a revelation in her first challenging role, but the rest of the actors are a bit off. In fact, everything about the movie is a bit off. Even Stephen Gaghan, who writes the screenplay, offers us a probing look into the breaches of society and the cause and effect that lead our two protagonists in a downward spiral, but he refuses to reach deeper to actually make the audience care and feel enveloped by the psychological turmoil going on-screen.I'm sure I'm portraying this to be a base and horrible film, but it isn't. I feel I watched something entertaining and that serves as an illustration to other similar films I've watched before. It's an interesting movie to seek out, and I really do recommend it, but I hope you aren't expecting a masterpiece. Just watch it 'for the fun of it' (even if this phrase sounds a bit ironic).Rating: 2 and a half stars out of 4!