Havoc (Unrated Version)
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Movie Reviews of Havoc (Unrated Version)
Movie Review: The rill thang
Summary: 3 Stars
(2.5/5 stars) Allison knows she can imitate anyone and any sort of life, but she also knows that is not genuine. She is a disaffected teen looking for something that will make her believe in life. Her parents fight with one another, which has caused her to distrust relationships of any sort. She has sex with fellow teen Toby, though she refuses to label him "boyfriend." She thinks she might be in love with her best friend, Emily (Bijou Phillips), though she has yet to determine what love is. The crowd with which she hangs out doesn't help either; they are "wiggers:" white teens who want to live the lives of the gangsta rap they so idolize. While this identity confusion is annoying, it does provide the impetus for taking the group to East L.A., where they seek drugs and gang membership. If this sounds ludicrous, that is because it is. Whether or not it is common for wealthy, very attractive girls to head to the other side of the tracks and engage in sex with drug dealers in order to become gang members is unknown to me because I belong to neither group. However implausible it sounds, it does make for an unusual and fairly interesting film. There are some decent moments in this film and tension certainly builds, though a few things kept it from being good. The bored white teens from Pacific Palisades are supposedly from wealthy families, but there isn't much shown to suggest that. Perhaps the film's budget was very limited because the ending is also truncated to a point of being ambiguous. What are the fates of Toby and Emily? Nonetheless, Anne Hathaway does a very good job in her role as Allison and she proves with this role that she is capable of carrying a movie. The rest of the cast was also quite good, though I must reiterate that most of the teen "wiggers" were just plain irritating. Worth watching to see Anne Hathaway.Movie Review: Accurate but for one fatal flaw
Summary: 3 Stars
This film would like you to think the hip hop, ghetto gang bangers young teenagers are enticed by are beaners. I think most people are going to see through this and laugh their way into turning this DVD into a Frisbee. Having lived in the Hispanic ghetto for seven years, I can tell you white girls do not flock to either the Filipino or Hispanic parties. I think, by process of elimination, you can do the math and figure out which ethnicity I'm talking about. Hint: It's not the Caucasian gangs, either. Another hint: It's the ethnicity that 99% of rap and hip hop artists are. Not that gangs of this ethnicity are any worse, but they are the ones that get this kind of attention. Clearly this minor (sarcastically rolls eyes) fact was altered to be more politically correct. Personally, I think the hip hop culture needs a swift kick in the bollocks. If done accurately, it would have been a bunch of 11 to 16 year old cute suburban white girls smoking pot and being gang raped (statutory or otherwise) by a bunch of...well, you know where I'm going with this. Before you call me a racist, remember I lived it and you did not, and your emotional response to what I'm saying is the same reason the film makers were compelled to take the "less offensive" route and probably change the original script. Apparently they don't think Mexicans feel offense, I guess. Furthermore, the idea that any kind of genuine romance actually blossoms out of this rotten scene is clearly more Hollywood marketing fluff, as is the happy ending. Reality is far more insane and extreme than this film achieves, but you get a taste for the general behavior, at least. Lastly, I feel sorry for Bijou Phillips constantly being exploited like this. Hopefully she has more talent than this and her career can develop beyond this typecasting.Movie Review: Vapid, self-indulgent tripe. But hey, Anne Hathaway gets naked.
Summary: 3 Stars
As an effort to shake off her goody-goody image, Anne Hathaway starred in this so-so drama about a group of priveleged white teenagers who get in over their heads after getting mixed up with a gang from the other side of town. The teenagers have their own gang, if you can call it that, called the PLC, which is basically an excuse for them to get dressed up in Ecko and Enyce, listen to hip hop music, and talk like they're from the ghetto. Hathaway's character Alison says it best with the statement, "We're just teenagers and we're bored." The gang they get involved with, 16th Street, isn't bored and it's not a game to them; it's a way of life. It's easy to see why they don't take Alison and her friends seriously.
As mentioned before Anne Hathaway gets naked. Woohoo! But so does Bijou Phillips. The true hidden gem of this film is the spectacularly bad acting of Phillips as Hathaway's best friend. I mean, this is the same girl who has starred in such splendid films as Bully and Tart. Quite frankly, everything Bijou Phillips is in turns to garbage, and I love her for it.
As an effort to shed her good girl image, Hathaway struck gold with this movie. But the cost was to have her name attached to vapid, self-indulgent tripe that rivals Crash in its efforts to convince you that the world is just black and white, racist and nonracist, rich and poor. If you like bad movies, and I mean not just Glitter bad but even worse, then you'll like this movie. If you fancy yourself a movie connoisseur and can't watch a movie that's short on plot but big on nudity, then I'd look elsewhere for entertainment.
Movie Review: Havoc (Unrated Version)...
Summary: 3 Stars
Overall, I found this film, adequate. A few notes:
1. Girls looking for thrills/excitement in East L.A.? I don't think so. Go rolling to East L.A. in a convertible Mercedes or SUV? Can you say car-jack victim? I can...without any bias whatsoever.
2. The initiation scene is somewhat realistic. It has been said that in order for girls to join certain male dominated groups (gangs, etc.), that they must submit themselves to the 'group.' That has been documented in the press...any teenage girls out there? Well, beware!!
3. As a person who has been to Palisades High School in West Los Angeles (yes, folks, Pacific Palisades High School is real, just minutes from the beach!). You do indeed see kids immersed in the hip-hop culture. The difference? Some of these kids' families are very well-off. That part of the movie comes through very well. Families with the kind of money depicted in the film are usually quite busy making money, and not home for their kids...well, you know the rest.
4. Finally, the scene where the Palisades boys go to look for the gang-bangers that ravaged their friend was just unrealistic. These guys would have been seen a mile-off and would have been dealt with accordingly. Strangers in a strange land, would be an adequate description.
Again, I found the movie...adequate, decently acted, but not much more. Rent (or borrow) a copy and judge for yourself. Three stars...
Movie Review: I didn't know what to expect...
Summary: 3 Stars
I just watched this movie today and I knew it was out for a while and was kind of up in the air on weather I wanted to see it or not... I've never been a huge of the squeaky clean disney girl (anne hatheway) But I found myself and decided to give a viewing... Watching it.. It started out slightly dull and annoying with the phoney yo wanna be gangsta accents...But further watching it made me realize how today's society of children actually are.. Girls don't care what they do anymore as long as they aren't bored... Everyone is trying to play up to something that they aren't... It was brought up several times in the movie that Allie(hatheway) was being fake and isn't real... She just wanted to see the downside of the world and not really take part until she became dangerously to close to ugly truth and tried to pull out, when she was in a little bit too deep.. Pulling in her best friend along the way... She discovers that she bites off more than she can chew and starts a landslide which just get worse as the movie goes on.... In the end of course she realizes what she has done, but it was too late to turn back...
I was expecting the movie to end on a conclusive note and figure what happens next and it doesn't, but it still left me wondering...I think this movie hits close to home with a lot of parents with teenage kids namely the ones who just want to fit in....