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Movie Reviews of Havoc (Unrated Version)
Movie Review: Great Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
The Princess Diaries, Anne Hathaway Show us why we all like puppies. Bijou Phillips also show us her puppies.
Warning Bijou Phillips is topless while being rape by two guys.
Movie Review: i learned something
Summary: 5 Stars
I must admit I bought this movie because i wanted to see Anne Hathaway nude but as I watched it I realized that it really was a good movie.Movie Review: Anne Hathaway... as a wigger?
Summary: 4 Stars
I must admit, that alone drew me to Havoc, a tale about a young wigger girl named Allison who denies her rich, suburbian L.A. settings for the hard and gritty "thug" life of East L.A. Honestly, I didn't even know Hathaway would be topless in it (three times, as a matter of fact.) And honestly, I really could care less about that as she's not exactly Jessica Alba material, anyways. Moving on.
Hathaway, the tall, Owl-looking darling girl we know from about a dozen or so Princess roles plays wigger Alli(son), who hangs out with her equally phony friends and embrace the hardcore hip hop "thug" lifestyle because, as she put it, "we're teenagers and we're BORED." However, as a documentary-filming fellow high school student films the Life and Times of Whiteys Being Black (fake title), we get a little exposure to the "real" Allison, a straight-A student facing an identity crisis and wanting to live a "real, less-than-privledged" life. The same goes for her sister-like best friend Emily, played by Bijou Phillips. And just to note, considering that it's Anne Hathaway we're dealing with, Allison comes off as not-that-bad for a gangsta wanna-be. She can throw down in a fight, knows all the lyrics to Tupac's "How Do U Want It?", and all things considered, is pretty sexy as a white girl gangsta wannabe. At least more so than the real little teenage white girls trying to do the same thing and failing miserably.
One night, Alli and her poser boyfriends decide to ditch their suburbian hood and head straight out to the "real hood," East L.A. After Alli's boyfriend gets a cold, hard dose of reality via a gun barrel, Alli decides to ditch her loser wanna-be hard boyfriend for a real thug, Hector, played by Freddy Rodríguez. Hector, enticed by a tall, rich, white girl with a crush on him, decides to amuse Alli and Emily in his world that he lives in. He deals drugs and carries a strap, but that's the life he was given and it's not some joke meant for girls like Alli to exploit. But nonetheless, after Alli gets arrested with Hector and enjoys the "thrill" of being locked up, she and Emily become so engaged by the "thug" mentality that they decide they wanna join the 16th Street Gang.
And here's the part when Hathaway goes topless (again). In order for any females to join (well, I'm guessing attractive females), they have to roll a die. Whichever number between one and six they get is how many guys they have to participate in a gang bang. Alli is up for it, as she gets a one, and Emily (after drinking WAY too much) gets a three. Somewhere between getting naked and almost wrapping up though, Alli decides that this is wrong, but Emily, drunk and enthuastic, is in way too deep (literally). Alli bales Emily out at the last moment, and being the nicer-than-real-life guys that they are, Hector and his buddies let the white teens go.
Later on, Emily files a false rape charge against Hector's crew, which is just the excuse cops need to put away Hector for some serious time. And although Hector didn't rape Emily, he did almost (or full-on) have sex with a minor, which is at least a statutory rape charge. Naturally, word gets around and Hector's crew put a hit out on Alli and Emily in revenge. At the same time, the wanna-bes decide to take revenge on Hector for caressing Alli by loading up on some real guns and going "extra-hard" in a revenge shoot-out against the 16th Street Gang. All of reality comes crashing down on Alli and she's now stuck waist deep between what she almost agreed to do that night, what Emily DID do and what she's lying about, what Hector's boys are planning to do now, and what extremes the Pacific Palisades boys plan on doing with those guns.
Now, the movie itself does almost start off in a bit of a... unintentional parody of itself, in the beginning. The film opens with a hardcore rap song (that's not that bad) and has Allison, the fighting, hardcore-sex-having, rapping, tough-as-nails white girl from a privledged life being as hard and intimidating as a girl from that kind of life could possibly pull off. However, as the movie progresses along, a lot of the "funny" life of Pacific Palisades goes away in favor of the hard, gritty reality of East L.A. life. Hector, for a gun-wielding drug dealer, is actually not that bad of a guy, at all. And I like that, as it brings some realism to his character. Just because this is the life he has to live doesn't make him a bad guy. In reality, more than likely, Alli and Emily would've been severely raped. But Hector, as much as he does want to have sex with a tall, buxom white girl, also in many ways, likes the idea of having a friend from a world outside of his own. Allison's transformation from unintentional comical wigger girl to having learned her lesson comes kind of quick, and a few loose ends in the movie really aren't wrapped up, like the fate of Hector, for example. One big deal that kind of hurts the movie is the fact that Alli and Emily get to get away. I think the idea of actually having their characters BE raped would've brought home the seriousness and dangerousness the movie is trying to portray. The fact that they "almost" had something horrible happen to them definitely may not come across as strong to most people.
But the movie, in some form or another, kind of does serve as a cautionary tale to any of real-life suburbian white girl who wants to be a hardcore, hip-hop thugette like Alli. There are more than a few ways they could easily destroy their lives trying to chase after an identity that clearly isn't them. Sure the movie isn't perfect on many levels, but I think it's moral holds up, through it all.
Again, the idea of Anne Hathaway playing this role is just a bit odd, though. Someone like Julia Styles or Mandy Moore would give this character SOME credit, not the Princess Diaries girl, but for what it's worth, Hathaway does seem to take her role VERY seriously, in trying to break out of her typecast of being the "princess" girl. All in all, "Havoc" is a good movie. Not great, but it delivers on everything it's trying to do. Wigger girl tries to get into the real world of the steets, wigger girl nearly pays the price, wigger girl no longer wants to be wigger girl.
Movie Review: A Movie That Does Not Know What It Wants To Be
Summary: 4 Stars
I have a soft spot for films with exposed flaws. In all honesty, this film should only have two stars, but for me it is a guilty pleasure.
Daredevil & Kangeroo Jack are my two favorites.
Havoc enters onto this list because its a film whose style changes with every scene. It's the first non-documentary film from Barbara Kopple and you can tell she's itching to document and not force life to do her bidding. And this "hands off" directing leads to things like Anne Hathaway's "one take only" acting.
The way that the white kids are portrayed is comical and I believe intentionally so. I know I laughed at them in high school. They look and sound rediculous. Especially Anne Hathaway's "come hither" dance in the first party scene where she "drops the n-bomb." She's completely incapable of delivering those lines realistically. The party scenes throughout the film run parellels that are intriguing characterwise. Anne Hathaway drops her act and behaves like herself around Hector, while Bijou keeps it up and gets reprimanded.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt once again shows his chops as an acting wonderchild with a fantastically comical performance. He is definately going to be a person to watch in the next ten years.
The film is about facades and stereotypes and how people wear the masks created by others in order to feel true and real. Anne Hathaway's tri-romance between Mike Vogel, Bijou Philips and Freddy Rodriguez each satisfy and aspect of self that she is in crisis over. But none of them are fulfilling because of the walls that are set by those around them. I think it's one of the few films I've ever seen where a main character is forced to juggle three people at once.
The scene where Anne confronts Mike the night after they go downtown was well done and pretty honest. Then the "girls night" immediately following is hysterically true as well.
The documentary that Matt O'Leary's character is filming is a nice device and leads to some of the most important scenes in the film. He is the only character that is real and does not "play the game." But this may be an endorsement by Kopple that filmmakers are the only truthful people on the planet. My favorite scene is the one between Anne Hathaway and Matt O'Leary where he confronts her and starts to ask her questions she is to afraid to answer, she jumps from one facade to the next and attempts to "seduce him" but he wants her not the fake her and denies her "advances." It should be the crux of the film, but it falls flat because as an actress Anne Hathaway is incapable of playing all of those people.
But! Its intentions are noble and the parents are brilliant. It's just to bad that they didn't tone it down and play it a lot straighter. It might have been a great film. They were just to busy marketing it to teenagers and not trying (ironically enough) to make it more cinema-veritae. Hopefully Kopple's next fore into fiction will be less plagued by errors.
Movie Review: Hathaway goes Gangsta
Summary: 4 Stars
Inevitably, the real story of the movie HAVOC is the dramatic turn for Anne Hathaway from Disney poster child to sexually agressive gangsta chick. Many have criticized the poor girl for this dramatic turn... but you know what... there are a lot of things that seperate the successful from the forgotten in Hollywood... but ONE MAJOR THING IS GUTS! With Havoc, Anne proves that she is overflowing with it.
Many other women have taken this turn in the past, and probably have had to listen to the same criticizisms... just to list a couple... Jane Seymour and more importantly, another former Disney childstar named JODIE FOSTER... who has done alright for herself too, by making BOLD and GUTSY decisions herself.
In Havoc, she is a completely different person and she really gets to act out and flesh out a character with bite, vive and sexual curiosity that made get her in deeper than she really is ready for.
I give this movie 4 stars, because to me, this movie is more about Anne Hathaway taking an aggressive step with her career than the movie itself. Her first big step landed her in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN... the most critically acclaimed film of the year. SEE YOU AT THE OSCARS ANNE.
Okay, the movie... The movie is okay, but not much more than that. It's basically about a couple of bored upperclass white sociallites who are unable to resist the bad boys. Their sexual curiosity seems to pull them towards a very dangerous drug dealing and murdering latino gang. How far will they go to satisfy their curiosity?
The performances are good, but there was one very very very important thing that ruined the movie for me. And 'no' it isn't because of the scene with Anne Hathaway. But, the gang leader, Hector (Played well by Freddy Rodriquez), is too soft.
From what I understand, this movie is not so far fetched. These things are actually happening in L.A. Yet, it's the Latino gangs who are KIDNAPPING white women and abusing them against their wills. Yet, in Havoc, the white women COME TO THEM and I felt like the way his character fleshed out was unrealistic and took away from the point of the movie.
In my opinion, the movie had a great premise, but didn't deliver where it should have, and I don't fault the actors, I fault the direction. Tension could have been fleshed out more. The fear and the danger of gang life could have been fleshed out more. Because of these things, the movie is only a 2 star movie.
On the other hand, Anne Hathaway proved that she can become a completely different character and proved that she's gonna be an actor that's gonna be around for time to come. Not to mention, increased her drool factor. That's why I give the movie as a whole 4 stars.