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 - Someone shoulda busteed a cap in all of 'em!So, in this movie, Anne Hathaway tries to show us she has "range" by showing us her um, assets (I tried to use another word, but Amazon wouldn't accept my review). Great. Congratulations sweetie, you're a serious actress now. Nothing in this movie is real. If people actually behaved the way the kids in this movie did in real life, they would wind up dead in a ditch. Freddy RodrÃguez plays a gangster with a heart of gold who puts up with the shenanigans of a bunch of bored, spoiled wealthy teenagers. I would have put a cap in all of their faces early on and been done with it. Insipid waste of time. Rating:  - Good!About young generation dealing with life. Also, Bijou Philips and Anne Hathaway nude, can't beat that. lol Rating: - Lacks... almost everything, really.Havoc (Barbara Kopple, 2005) Havoc, oddly, finds itself in the unenviable position of being a character-driven movie whose characters are not strong enough to survive without a plot. The end result, as one might expect, is sometimes intriguing, but that's not enough to battle the boredom of the rest of the movie's running time. There isn't much of a plot, as it's a character-driven movie, but what there is is that a bunch of gangsta wannabes get mixed up with a real East LA drug dealer. This begs the question: if gangsta wannabes are deeply annoying in real life, why would anyone want to watch an hour-and-a-half movie about them? Even the prodigious acting talent of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the toplessness of Anne Hathaway can't save this, perhaps because neither (the only two interesting things about the movie) get nearly enough screen time. Levitt, at least, seems to be having some fun with his character, while all the other white males come off as Eminem wannabes, the Hispanics in the movie are all walking stereotypes, and the women are there to provide supporting material-- even though two of them (Hathaway and Bijou Phillips) are in the lead roles. I'm not sure why I haven't learned yet; I haven't liked a Stephen Gaghan screenplay since Rules of Engagement seven years ago. Maybe this will finally be enough to convince me he's the screenwriting equivalent of post-1990 Joel Schumacher. * Rating:  - Accurate but for one fatal flawThis 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. Rating: - crash litejust see it for the ladies, because other than that it is like crash. Well wait this came out before Crash so..oh who cares. end result is the gang bangers bump heads with the wanna be gb's and it all goes downhill from there. Bayou Phillips is hot and so is Hathaway if you know what I am talking about so if you are looking for that kind of action it is here. Really now, good acting and neat story. Just that, well kind of not realistic, like the girls trying to get into a gang and stuff. Any teen that does something THAT dumb needs to start over in the first grade or just be admitted into an asylum.
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