Havoc (Unrated Version) Reviews

• Anne Hathaway nude - Get this Unrated cut!

  
  By A1RIF1ZKGS3P7R on 2005-09-22
  After desperately searching the net for any sign of the film Havoc, it looks like most of us guys finally have a DVD to truly celebrate. Havoc stars an Anne Hathaway rocking the full monty and playing with, well, something nice. The film is supposedly about "an edgy look at a group of rich teens who, so bored with their privileged existences, adopt an urban street lifestyle", but most can only hear "Anne Hathaway naked." And why not?
  
  Every male moviebuff on the net, pervs included, have at one time or another searched the phrase 'havoc naked' or 'anne hathaway naked'. Not that this is a bad thing, considering what this girl was willing to do for this film.
  
  In a report released by New Line Cinema, reposted by Joblo, they had these important facts to say about the upcoming Havoc DVD.
  
  * New Line Cinema is bypassing theatres and is instead going straight to DVD.
  * Havoc will come in two formats. An R-rated version that is 86 minutes and an "unrated" version that is 94 minutes.
  
  It was first reported that all the 'hardcore' nakedness was going to be cut before any DVD release of Havoc. However, now that we have an "unrated" version, we may be able to see Anne Hathaway in all her glory. But what this means is that I can put on my geek cap on November 18th for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and then quickly rotate that back into my pervert cap. Ahh, sweet bliss in November.
  
  

• Yes, Anne Hathaway is 'nude', but there was also a movie....

  
  By A2F8ZRSX7MDOCT on 2005-12-15
  Obviously the main draw of this DVD is the fact that Anne Hathaway appears 'nude'. However, if your expecting all out full-frontal nudity and borderline porno scenes with Hathaway---think again. Several scenes (most notably the one with Hathaway and Philips in the bedroom) had oh so much potential, but in the end there are simply a few scenes of Hathaway topless. (a lot more of Philips)
  
  Now, on to the movie...
  
  This is an interesting topic to make a film about...wiggers AKA white kids with too much time and money. Ironically the term is mostly used by white people to label other white people. Anyways, THIS particular film did not achieve anything spectacular. The story begins with 2 'crews' arguing with each other and introduces us to the PTC (Hathaway's crew). The story itself is not very interesting (white kids go to the hood and get involved with a gang), but, surprisingly, the film is entertaining to watch.
  
  The character's themselves (in the beginning) were a little to close to 'Malibu's Most Wanted' to fully embrace this movie as a drama and care about them. Also, as the story progresses, not enough effort is put into learning about or developing the characters. (More details about Hathaway's character in the beginning would have been great)This is unfortunate becuase later in the film, it would have been helpful to care a little more about these people. The characters really only start to become more than two dimensional in the last 25 minutes or so. Anne Hathaway and Bijou Philips were good on screen together and had the most authentic feeling relationship in the entire movie.
  
  Overall, this film definitely had potential to be a good film and could have been done wonders with a few more plot intricacies and more character development. But, as is, I would RENT this movie instead of purchasing it.
  
  

• Allison might talk the talk, but she and her friends can't walk the walk

  
  By A2NJO6YE954DBH on 2006-01-28
  When I saw "Brokeback Mountain" I thought that was the film in which Anne Hathaway made it clear she was not going to be doing any more princess movies for Disney by dong a nude scene. But then I discovered that after making her second princess movie and then doing vocal work for "Hoodwinked," Hathaway made "Havoc" and went from PG to R without a transitional PG-13 movie (okay, unrated in terms of the DVD, but R in the theater). I heard that Mandy Moore was originally cast as the lead for this film and I have to wonder if she bailed given what the role required or if they changed the script to give it this "harder" edge that it has now. Putting in deleted scenes to justify labeling it as unrated might increase the word of mouth about the film, but it did not improve it in any way that will impress anybody with a more than prurient interest in the festivities.
  
  Hathaway plays Allison Lang, a bored high school student who lives in an affluent part of Los Angeles. Along with her boy friend, Toby (Mike Vogel), best friend, Emily (Bijou Phillips), and everybody else in her group, Allison talks and dresses like bone fida members of the gangster culture from the music they listen to. They strike us as being pretty sad and pathetic, a judgment that is amply underscored when Toby tries to score some crack cocaine in East L.A. and is brought all the way down to the ground by Hector (Freddie Rodriguez, who does a much better job of getting beyond his role on "Six Feet Under" to impress viewers). If not for Allison's intervention Toby and everybody else in their car might have ended up dead. After this encounter Toby retreats into bravado, while Allison, having seen the real thing, responds to the danger. She drags Em along for the fun, and keeps pushing things with Hector and his gang until they come to a head.
  
  The story here can be traced back to a spec script called "Powers That Be" that Jessica Kaplan sold in 1995 when she was still a teenager. Kaplan, who based the screenplay on her experiences in high school were her white friends were caught up in imitating gangster culture, died in the crash of a small plane in Los Angeles in 2003 (the film is dedicated to her). Stephen Gaghan revised the story and finished the screenplay, so he ends up being responsible for what we have seen. The idea of telling a story about these characters is certainly worth pursuing. I can remember chaperoning a prom and watching a bunch of white girls standing together on the dance floor singing along to rap songs and thinking that it would be hard for them to be removed much farther from the culture they were imitating.
  
  The flaw with "Havoc" is rather interesting. It constructs a situation so that when Allison and Em agree to be initiated into Hector's gang that you know this is going to get bad. What follows makes it clear things are going to go so far beyond bad that you have to face down an impulse to stop the movie before you get to the really bad part. But then "Havoc" backs off and after an initial sense of relief you realize this is a movie that was made with the safety on, which puts us in the "no guts, no glory" territory. Ironically, what derails the movie is a scene that shows the best part of what is going on is the relationship between Allison and Em, even though it does not always seem like this is a good thing. Ultimately the only sympathetic character is Eric (Matt O'Leary), whose omnipresent camcorder distances him from the rest of the group, but who is able to make a pointed remark that surprisingly hits home for Allison.
  
  Those who check out this film because of Hathaway's nude scenes will find something similar in the scene where she is being filmed by Eric where things get rather interesting and then the off switch is hit. Basically, that is what this movie does. It plays a game of chicken with cold harsh reality and then it yanks the wheel hard and quick so it can paste together a "happy" ending before the credits role. I can appreciate Hathaway's reasons for taking this job, but her character of Allison ends up proves to be guilty of slumming, and not even first-rate slumming at that. That makes the nudity and profanity somewhat gratuitous, all things considered.
  
  

• Wreaking Havoc With My Sensibilities

  
  By A27H9DOUGY9FOS on 2006-09-18
  What can I say about the truly inspired film "Havoc" that hasn't been said before? Barbara Kopple, an Academy Award winning documentarian, taking a grittily realistic look at urban youth dabbling in gang culture--sounds like a recipe for success! Add a talented cast of appealing up-and-coming actors given really meaty roles--awesome!
  
  Not so much...
  
  "Havoc" is, unfortuanately, an unmitigated disaster. You won't believe your eyes. The kids, the gangs, the streets of L.A.--everything just rings so false. The last time I saw so many posers "playing" street toughs was at my Junior High auditions for "Grease". And I think we could have taken these kids.
  
  A lot has been made about the "shocking" sexual content of the film. Anyone "shocked" by this movie probably doesn't see very many movies. Anne Hathaway does appear naked, which seems to be a selling point, but she and everyone else deserves better.
  
  I'd actually have rated the movie about a 4--because it's a campy mess!!! If someone had realized that this was a B-level exploitation flick, and sold it as such--I'd have bought into it. No, though. This is a "serious movie" and "important" document of our time. Sadly, on that scale, these kids need to go back to school because they failed! KGHarris, 9/06.
  
  

• Havoc

  
  By A3NCDW5XJHBW5T on 2005-12-09
  I rated this 1 star, only because i wasn't allowed to say 0! In my nearly 25 years of watching videos, this is far and the biggest PIECE OF CRAP ever released. The so called Unrated version is NO different than the almost totally censored R release and is the biggest disappointment any studio has ever given us. I am boycotting all releases by this studio henceforth and if you're considering wasting your money on this garbage, consider this: i pre-ordered mine for alot less than i thought i'd have to pay for it, but returned it without opening it, after viewing it from Netflix (the GREATEST of all-time!)
  PLEASE DON'T WASTE YOUR $ ON THIS SO CALLED MOVIE!!!
  
  
• Hell, I liked it!!!!!!!!!!!!
  By A1IZMQPDCT9O9X on 2006-01-07
  I love to see T&A and this movie had some nice T&A. You know old Ella Enchanted, Princess Diaries, Anne Hathaway has some nice boobies!!!!! And when she gives that BJ, nice. OOOHHHH when she plays with herself, and WOW when she get nude to screw that dude, Well hey I just had to join in, if you know what I mean. As far as Bijou, I liked it when she got "Tag Teamed". Good movie if you like smut!!!!!!! And some no name chick had some nice boobs too in the movie. This is the unrated version!!!!
  
  
• Good as far as it goes
  By A188STKHS5VNDZ on 2005-11-29
  Anne Hathaway naked, right? OK-I'll admit it. I have never watched the whole DVD all the way through. I just fast-forwarded to Anne Hathaway's nude scenes and indeed she is topless in the film thrice. But all the other, more revealing nudity that was supposed to be in this unrated version according to internet postings from folks who saw the whole film, has been cut out.Why?
  
  So get it it you want to see her topless and you won't be disappointed. But don't expect much else.
  
  
• Hype of a Lie
  By A2R4M6QBCB6WW8 on 2005-12-08
  This movie just plain stunk. Granted the whole "Rich kids acting tough" idea is probably a little more true than you'd like. But the movie itself really didn't provide much in the way of a story that most would care about.
  
  The basic premise is just what I mentioned, rich kids wanting drugs and going to "the hood" (hispanic version of it), Hathway and Bijou & assorted boyfriends go for drugs, boyfriends act tough and get put in their place, girls go back later because they want to "act bad" and get more than they hope for, with assorted stretched out lame story line.
  
  Lets be honest, most who are looking to this movie have done so because "The Princess" is getting nude. Infact you probably read about how nude she really gets from the view shown at the film festival. Well whatever nudity she may have had is down to a couple boob shots and a brief nipple shot and that's it. The reports of her showing stuff down south is not here, and any "activities" done down south ain't in it the move either. There were a couple potential areas where you could see where some potential was there for some hot action, but they got the "alternate ending". Anyways if you want to see it for a naked Anne Hathway look online, the still shots posted everywhere are about as good as it gets.
  
  PS Don't listen to the default "user" review listed on the page, it's a premade review made by someone (maybe the company) trying to hype the film, look at any other site selling the movie you'll see the same exact review. The movie is not that good.
  
  
• Completely Ridiculous: Not to be missed
  By A2HQ31XNN3OXES on 2006-03-04
  The test screenings for this movie went so badly that it was sent straight to DVD. Apparently the test audiences just couldn't see the fun in watching a really, really bad movie. What's up with that?
  
  Its true absurdity is revealed about two scenes in: at a raucous, drugged-out high school party, Anne Hathaway silences the crowd by seductively beckoning her wigger boyfriend and crooning, "How do you want it? How do you feel? Growing up as a nigga in a cash game, living in the fast lane, I'm for real."
  
  Your jaw will drop open and remain there for the entirety of the film. But meanwhile in the world of "Havoc", Hathaway's peers (including a cracked-out Joseph Gordon Leavitt) react with admiration and awe. Minutes later, the erstwhile Princess is taking off her shirt (unnecessarily) before going down on the aforementioned mack daddy. And even this nudity seems organic to the narrative when contrasted with a later scene where she masturbates while being videotaped - an episode that truly strains all credibility.
  
  The script to this movie is so absurd, it makes you question whether Stephen Gaghan really "gets it" at all. Allison, ostensibly the rebellious but intelligent heroine, merely comes off as an anti-intellectual, spoiled slut. Not helping matters is a subplot involving a disaffected documentarian that adds absolutely nothing to the action, unless its intent is to make us hate the film's protagonist. Nevertheless, the odd bit of nudity and the outright hilarious pronouncements by members of the "PLC" (the Palisades High School gangbanger club) always keep the laughter coming.
  
  The supporting players do a lot to lighten the mood. Bijou Phillips, as best friend Emily, turns in a priceless scene where she agrees to a sexual intiation that (big shock) goes too far! When Hathaway gets in trouble, all of a sudden the guy from the first Terminator and Laura San Giacomo show up as concerned parents. JGL has a scenery-chewing moment where he screams, "That is my queen! I would kill for that woman!" in reference to snaggletoothed Bijou. And Freddy Rodriguez, who really should have known better, is paired with Hathaway in what one assumes is supposed to be romance. All-around, this movie is so lame, it's a classic. You just have to see it.
  
  
• Havoc Is Definately Worth Checking Out---It Needs To Be Checked Out!!!
  By AWCDFMA7M6P6B on 2006-03-10
  As most of you already know, this film does show Anne Hathaway topless. But so does a much more brilliant film Brokeback Mountain when she is having sex with Jack in the station wagon, asking his "Am I going too fast?" This movies plays like a sad violin. The storyline is simple: rich teenagers feel like they are unwanted so they act "black" and have sex a lot. Anne Hathaway is such a good actress, portraying Allison, a stressed out teen who wants to be someone else, or in her words she is "Sick of this phony life." Bijou Phillips plays Allison's best friend, Emily, who (SPOILER ALERT!!!---gets raped by two Mexican gansters.) The film is a dazzling display of affection for what many people want to do, pretend to be someone else. Allison wants to change her lifestyle, so she gets involved with a Mexican ganster, who deals drugs. Barbara Kopple makes this film a complete aray of brilliance. It is slow at parts, and the ending makes you think of what really happened.
  The film progresses and makes a big band at the end---literally. The rest of the cast includes Spy Kid's Matt O'Leary, 10 Things I Hate About YOu's Goseph Gordon-Levitt, and TV's Drake and Josh's Josh Peck. The film was released straight to DVD because the studio did not know how to release it, and for obvious reasons, I agree with them. The reason I am only giving it four stars and not five is because it is slow at parts and the ending leaves you hanging.
  
  
• Pure Garbage
  By A17LJCRPMR78WH on 2006-01-01
  This movie is my number one worst movie of 2005.I never seen a bunch of rich wannabe's trying so hard to be someone else.The whole storyline was straight garbage...........
  
  
• HAVOC
  By A2MS4BVWCTUPSN on 2006-01-08
  It's nothing but a group of spoiled/wigger white kids who think there tough while Anne and her friend(s) try to be in a gang.
  
  ALTHOUGH IT'S WEIRD SEEING ANNE HATHAWAY GO FROM GOOD GIRL TO BAD GIRL THROUGHOUT MOVIES. AND OF COURSE THAT WHORE BIJOU IS IN THIS AWFUL MOVIE. IT'S NOT SUPRISING THAT SHE'S STILL PLAYING A TEENAGER.
  
  
  IN CONCLUSION, THIS IS THE ONLY MOVIE I'VE SEEN IN A LONG TIME THAT DIDN'T HAVE A PLOT AT ALL!!!!
  
  
• Havoc... Decent
  By A2FO6V79SWER92 on 2006-01-09
  I read` a lot of negative reviews here which I personally think are way too judgmental. I just viewed the movie and I think its much deeper than people give it credit for. The story has been told before.. I grant you that, but still the acting and the emotions are believable. Rich kids looking for a "real" experience so they get hooked up with gangsters and their troubles.
  
  Anne Hathaway gives a good performance as a smart ass kid who wants to get away from her boring life into the unknowns of downtown LA. She kooks up with a group of gangsters known as the 16th street gang. He interactions gives her more of a learning experience than she wanted. Throughout the process she is somewhat composed, but still frazzle when things go wrong.
  
  At the end things go horribly wrong and hard lessons are learned. The whole nude thing is way overrated. Its not THAT shocking. The story and the way its played out is satisfying enough.
  
  
  
• Never underestimate bore white, rich kids...
  By A3SI45Q589911G on 2006-03-16
  I originally rented this film to see the HOT Anne Hathaway naked. I was presently suprised, by this film. It appears to be a dark, brutal tale of white kids that don't realize how good they have it.
  
  The movie is suprisingly powerful, if there is one flaw it's the ending is rushed. You get a feeling from Alli's character is more of an oops, I messed up and blames everything she did on being young and stupid. There also seemed to be a subplot with the camera kid, but that was not touched on to much. Other than that I felt the movie was very well done, showing how bad thing can get if you go to far. Sadly this is an often times all to real look at LA teens. This should serve as a message to parents, get active in your kids lives and for god-sake's talk to them and love them. As for white kids that want to be gangsta's, As George Carlin once said..."You're white and you're lame....deal with it." oh yeah....Anne Hathaway looks so hot naked.
  
  
  
  
• Seriously. Its that bad.
  By ATGERLDMLYLDJ on 2006-04-29
  Don't ignore the overwhelming amount of negative reviews for this sad excuse for a movie, it is every bit as horrible as you think! Sadly, Havoc is eating up even more of my time than that which it took to sit down and watch this by my writing this review, but the movie (other than the nude scenes) was so horrible that I feel it necessary to warn every other person on the face of the earth to stay away from it.
  
  I guess what would be the plot if there really was one, would be about a group of ignorant white kids from an upper class neighborhood who think they're gangsters. While driving around in their parents BMW's around sunny California these completely uninteresting characters whom we are constantly praying will get shot brawl with another so-called gang about who keyed the Eminem look-alikes car, freestyle to each other while wearing their colored bandanas at a Beverly Hills house party, and most entertainingly of all, travel to the ghetto to buy marijuana and end up urinating all over themselves when they realize they're in the wrong neighborhood. Do these sound like original characters in whom we should all invest a few hours to see where there stories develop? Of course they are. Unfortunately none of them die within the scope of the movie, so therefore the only purpose for such a time investment is negated. For what amounts to the rest of the story, two white girls from this "crew" of uptown yuppie kids decide they want to join a Mexican gang, start partying in downtown L.A. with them, and then realize they have to submit to an orgy of drug dealing Mexicans to gain membership. Once the deed is done though, the girl we are hoping most to walk into heavy rush hour traffic screams rape, leaving her white boy gang compadres to run to her aid and go charging into the ghetto to ignite what would be a gang war if any of them actually knew what they were doing. All of this, for some unexplained reason, is being filmed by the local nerd for a documentary about wannabe white kids, that I'm assuming the kid thinks someone would actually have some interest in. Well, this movie did get made, so some unfortunate soul working in Hollywood thought it was a good idea.
  
  I could go into detail about the many reasons why you shouldn't see this movie, but they are the same as every other movie of this type and will spare you, the reader, the time it takes to hear about the complete lack of plot and/or purpose in Havoc, the redundant, composed of a writer's mental [...] matter characters, or the lack of satisfaction in watching the Mexican gang wreak bloody havoc on their white rivals, which, sadly, never happens. Even the 50 Cent movie was better than this, and I thought that one couldn't be outdone. Leave it to Hollywood to keep churning out the maneur pile of gang movies and re-makes of classic films. Unfortunately movies like this are becoming the norm these days and filling up the shelves of video stores and minds of viewers with their lack of purpose and independant interpretations. Don't support the market for this: steal any copy you can find and burn it for the good of humanity.
  
  
• I tell ya, curiosity will sometimes get you into trouble.
  By A3C6CZC2JP67VK on 2006-06-04
  While watching this film last night, the first thing that came to mind was, "Wow, these kids sure are fake." In many initial reviews, this movie was derided as being a joke. It was either hearing about the various nude scenes of Anne Hathaway or a bunch of white kids trying to act black, and doing it poorly.
  
  I said that that "Fake" was the first thing that came to mind, because we are immediately presented with this group of rich white kids acting like they are black. However, it is being mistaken by some reviewers that these actors are doing a bad job. What we are really seeing is truly how superficial that these kids are. They are fake, in every sense of the word, and that is the whole point of the movie. Don't try and act like something you aren't because there are consequences.
  
  I say this is a social commentary, not perfectly executed, but still fairly well done nonetheless. It does truly present many aspects of youth behavior nowadays that most people don't really look at. We are given a true side to high school, where there are fake people everywhere, underage and illegal activity is happening, and its all going on without parents there to see. This movie takes the comedy out of the teenage life that has been prevalent in movies over the past 8 years or so such as "American Pie" and other similar styled teen comedies and turns it to a sort of opposite view.
  Now I am not by any means saying that this movie is a guiding light which everyone should see. In fact, I don't know if this movie is for everyone, because of the issues it presents. Most parents, such as myself, would undoubtedly have problems coming to terms that the behavior seen in this movie happens. Now it doesn't happen everywhere, or in every school, but I'm pretty sure that you know what I mean.
  
  This film is backed up by pretty well performed acting done by the majority of its cast. Anne Hathaway, who many doubted had the range to tackle such a role, seemed very natural in the part. I don't mean that negatively, and I actually give her credit for really becoming the character. The rest of the cast does a good job, but it is her performance that truly helps you understand most of the underlying message of the movie.
  
  I know that some won't view it the way I seen it, but to each is own. I do hope that people see this movie and don't criticize it solely on what they think is bad acting. It has a much deeper theme than that, and I think that the more viewers understand that, the more people will realize the decency of the film.
  
  
  
  
• What A Dog Of A Movie!
  By A37PU1H4RAUGC9 on 2006-06-19
  Good thing I got this movie for $2.00 at a pawn shop, because it was awful. It tried to shed light on why rich kids love hip-hop and urban culture, but it failed. Anne Hathaway is a good actress, but even she can't save this movie. Unless you have a free movie rental coupon don't waste your money. Lucky for me the pawn shop gave me a refund.
  
  
• The premise hits home, everything else doesn't
  By A1AISPOIIHTHXX on 2005-12-11
  Many films try to get inside the teenage mind. What makes kids have sex with guys they just met an hour earlier at a party? Or for them to try out drugs and drink till they pass out? Quite frankly I don't want to know. I never was interested in that kind of lifestyle but many are. Havoc tries to get into that mind, in particular the odd subculture of the wigga, meaning rich white kids trying to be gangster and street. The premise is intriguing but ugh it goes nowhere.
  
  Allison(a regrettably miscast Anne Hathaway) is one of those rich white girls who leads a boring life. Since nothing exciting happens she joins an odd subculture called wiggers, where they try to be like a gang, even with their own name. On a ride to get weed with her friend Emily(Bijou Phillips, who oddly seems comfortable in these roles) and boyfriend, things go awry when the boyfriend accuses the dealer Hector(an unrecognizable Freddy Rodriguez from Six Feet Under). Oddly Allison develops a fascination with it.
  
  This grows even more when she keeps following him around and doing what I call the accidental stalker.("oh what are you doing here?") comes to mind, since you knew they were there. Anyways Allison and her friend want in only they go through a ritual involving sex and numbers on a dice. Things don't go as planned and they all get a reality check.
  
  Of course one of the big draws of the film isn't the message of the film, but rather star Anne Hathaway disrobes. 3 times actually. She's a bit miscast since after going from Princess Diaries to this it's too much of a change. Other actresses do sort of serious work gradually and then do a 180 role and we accept it since it's not a change. Here it's like Disney......to being naked and giving oral sex in the back of a car. The other actors do their part well but there's not really any standouts, except maybe Freddy Rodriguez. Of course my highlight is Shiri Appleby. Just her face is enough to keep me entertained. Lamentably she doesn't have a whole lot of screen time.
  
  The one issue that I have is the ending. It's so truncated, sudden and leaves you with a feeling of emptiness. There's not a real closure for any of the characters and their fates are never dealt with. This might tie into the feeling of their fates aren't determined just like life but this is either lazy filmmaking or wannabe artsiness.
  
  I can understand the idea behind the film which is teenagers tend to go towards something that is not always the best idea so the message gets across, just not the film itself.
  
  
• If you wanted to see this
  By AAECAHBNP1VD2 on 2006-01-26
  only to see Anne Hathaway topless, you're almost as pathetic as this film was. The plot was lame, a real shame because it actually had all kinds of potential. And for what her role was, Hathaway wasn't bad, nor was Rodriguez, but they had absolutely nowhere to go within the parameters of the script.In short, the film wasn't entertaining in the least, unless you're a prepubscent boy. No wonder it went straight to video. When the credits roll, you say, "And......???"
  
  
• Went straight to video!!
  By A36K5YLJ3C9UKR on 2005-12-01
  The studios plan was to release this movie earlier this year, but plans got scraped. The movie had a great premise of rich teenagers wanting to be someone else. Anne Hathaway's character, Allison, is a latch-key girl who has parents in a rocky marriage, and she justs wants to get out of her boredom. But her journey into East LA is the cause of her boyfriend looking for drugs. These teenagers suffer from low self esteem and hide it through drugs, sex, and acting like hiphop stars. The movie set up the characters, but unfortunately ironically loses itself once the girls return to East LA. The plot becomes simplified as the girls try to join the gang and end up with more than they want.
  
  Anne Hathaway does show depth in her character who is pretending to be something she's not. Everybody is also talking about her nude scenes, but I'm sorry, but the scenes do become hard to watch and you see these girls fall.
  
  The studios wanted something more with this movie and so did I. The disc does come with a supposed trailer makes the movie a cross between Traffic and KIDS, but fails.
  
  
• DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE
  By A1YL58MX7H0RKW on 2005-12-05
  ANOTHER FILM OF WEALTHY WHITE KIDS LOOKING FOR LOVE ,TROUBLE AND DRUGS IN THE HOOD.I SEEN MANY FILM LIKE THIS ONE AND THEY ALL ARE OFFENSIVE.AND AS ANNA HATHAWAY NUDITY MOST MEN BREAST ARE BIGGER THAN HERS.BIJOU PHILLIPS PLAYING ANOTHER TEEN ROLE IS A SIGN TO STAY AWAY I THINK SHE'S MORE CLOSE TO THIRTY NOW.THE STORY IS GENERIC AND THE ACTING IS OVERDONE .IF THERE JUSTICE IN THESE MOVIES THE WHITE WIGGERS WOULD BE LIVING AND WORKING FOR MIN WAGE.TAKING THE BUS FOR TRANSPORTATION IN THE HOOD
  
  
• There is a story here...
  By A37S419ASLK6AB on 2006-01-01
  But apparently some were distracted by the topless scenes. It's a shame, because they missed a pretty good movie.
  
  The plot is simple-sounding enough: Sheltered teens being seduced by the gang activity in East LA. Soon enough, though, they get more than they bargained for, and the consequences devastate them.
  
  The acting is very good, especially Hathaway's, and I admire her for stepping out of her Disney roles, into something more adult.
  
  Even though the premise is nothing new, I recommend it.
  
  
• Pretty Bad in many ways
  By ALH8TLV0BJVY0 on 2006-01-01
  Even if you were given this DVD it would not be worth it - you would waste your time in watching it.
  
  The movie, throughout, seems to be trying to make some sort of weighty statement but nothing comes out. The plot is unconvincing as are many of the actors in their roles.
  
  If you are looking for some skin, there is almost nothing of interest here. One of the reasons I bought this is that Shiri Appleby is listed third in the credits, but she gets almost no screen time.
  
  
• Where's the plot?!
  By A2BN8X9L24PHDC on 2006-01-02
  I'm a college student and, perhaps foolishly, I have come to expect "meaning" in most of the films I see and books I read. Not so, with "Havoc."
  
  They way they advertise this movie, you'd expect a gritty, coming-of-age story where suburban kids figure out that being bored isn't an excuse for being reckless.
  
  Instead, Anne Hathaway took a huge gamble with this film and sadly, stacked her chips on the wrong bet. Hathaway's character, Allie, is the epitome of a "poor little rich girl," and we're introduced to her and her "posse" as they're about to engage in a fight with a rival--suburban--gang.
  
  They're "wiggers," or white teens who embrace black 'culture' from the music, to the clothes and, sadly, the presupposed speech patterns. In fact, it's the idiocy of these rich kids trying to speak and act "ghetto" that becomes distracting in the film.
  
  Understandably, they're trying to make the point that these kids have no idea what the lifestyle they're embracing in they're squeaky clean "gang" is really like, but they all sound so utterly stupid that I spent more time laughing than contemplating.
  
  There are a few notable parts of the film that do stand out and are the only true representation of what the film was trying to get across (i.e., the kids go to the ghetto to buy drugs and Allie's boyfriend stupidly confronts the drug dealer and ends up with a gun to his head...and a wet spot on his pants).
  
  Yet, I still don't know who any of the characters are or why they had a role in the movie. Allie's bestfriend ends up in a dangerous sexual situation with members of a gang, but we don't learn anything from the situation until a confrontation is forced.
  
  Allie spends time with a gangmember who plays an major role in the film, but his character is so fluid as to almost being elastic. He's a bad guy, then a good guy, then...a bad guy again. You end up not knowing what to think about him...or his world.
  
  No one learns anything outright in this movie and that's what becomes frustrating in the end. The gangmembers (the REAL ones) never show compassion, the kids never learn anything (even after several traumatic experiences) and the amount of gratuitous, downright uncomfortable nudity isn't worth mentioning.
  
  With different characters, actors and a solid plot (okay, a whole other film) "Havoc" might have worked if the viewer and the characters took an actual journey of understanding (i.e., 'Westside Story' or 'Chicago'), but we don't.
  
  In the end, if you expect anything--anything at all--out of this movie, you're bound to be disappointed, so save your money on a rental or, at least go for something that has a plot.
  
  
• Such sheer stupidity.
  By A2BFGUXFRHNMH7 on 2006-01-06
  I just finished watching this movie and I had to come here to vent. I am so mad at myself for wasting my precious time. I have never seen anything so stupid in my life. There is no point whatsoever to this movie. Don't make the mistake I made and waste your time with this. You don't even find out what happened to some of the characters in the end. Just a bunch of bored, rich, white gangsta wannabe kids getting involved with real gangstas and the real deal. And the other girl, Anne Hathaway's friend (whatever her name was), I could smack her. She's just this scheming, insecure little rich slut who lies at the expense of her former gangbangin' Latino buddies just to get herself some attention.
  There's no plot, no climax, no meaning, no resolution... It's pointless. I can't even waste my time discussing this pathetic, useless movie anymore. It's pointless.
  
  
• Anne Hathaway goes all out in Havoc which really wasnt that good even if it is UNRATED
  By A2G6GO4O7EVCPF on 2006-02-13
  Anne Hathaway (Princess Diaries, Brokeback Mountain) plays Allison, a girl who with her friends are all apart of this click who loves black music, they also talk like it too. Well, one night, they go downtown in the East side looking for some stuff to buy but one of them ends up getting roughed up by some Mexican guy, played by Freddy Rodriguez (Dead Presidents, Cant Hardly Wait). Soon, Hathaway goes back and starts to hang out with his crowd, he brings her girls along with her. She even gets arrested and this doesnt please her parents, played by Michael Biehn (Cherry Falls, The Terminator) and Laura San Giacomo (Just Shoot Me, Sex Lies & Videotape). She doesnt even have a good relationship with them at all. Later on, Hathaway and her friend played by Bijou Phillips (Bully, Black & White) want in on the gang and the initiation would be whoever rolls the amount of numbers on a dice, that many dudes you gotta do. Then later on it becomes more dramatic and yada-yada. Scripted by none other then Stephen Gaghan who directed one of 2005's best movies last year Syriana..sorry Gaghan, this movie isnt that spectacular. There's a lot of corny acting, especially when those white boys try to act black....Joseph Gordon-Levitt (3rd Rock From The Sun, Brick) being one of them. Plus, who hasnt seen this already? Felt like Black & White mixed with Bully without the violent killing of a friend mixed with some other stuff. Yes, Anne Hathaway is nude, she doesnt look half bad bad which will drive in any male viewers to see, yes that includes me. Also starring Shiri Appleby (Undertow, Roswell), Alexis Dziena (Broken Flowers, Wonderland), Mike Vogel (Texas Chainsaw Masscara remake, Wuthering Heights remake), Matt O'Leary (Frailty, Brick), Channing Tatum (Coach Carter, Supercross), Josh Peck (Mean Creek, Snow Day) and of course Raymond Cruz (Collateral Damage, Training Day) as to be in it.
  
  
• Havoc is a bust
  By A2OTPVKUIGYY6L on 2006-03-15
  The movie I thought would be great because of the main actress in the film. Also staring in my favorite movies such as The Princess Diaries, and Ella Enchanted. However her acting was poor and lacking in my opinion. The plot was stupid and just ran on without really any where to go at all...very disappointed after all the great talk about the movie..
  
  
• Great Movie
  By A1HPP510RJYBWU on 2006-03-19
  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.
  
  
• RICH, BORED, STUPID TEENS CROSS THE LINE
  By A3H9JSM1SUTE4O on 2006-09-19
  
  
  Not on the same level as Kids or Bully, HAVOC UNRATED (New Line) is about rich, bored and stupid Pacific Palisades teens who've adopted a hip-hop "gangsta" pose. One thing leads to another and two of the Palisades' girls find they've crossed the line and are in a dangerous situation with a real gang of East L.A. Latino drug dealers.
  
  The main draw of this direct to DVD release is squeaky-clean Anne Hathaway's (Princess Diaries) portrayal of Allie, replete with foul language and nudity. Hathaway is very believable in this unsettling portrayal of a girl suddenly discovering a much darker and more dangerous reality in her world
  
  Unrated. Genre: Teen crime. 1 Hour, 32 Minutes. Starring: Anne Hathaway, Bijou Philips, Freddy Rodriguez. Director: Barbara Kopple.
  
  
• Havoc it is
  By A328S9RN3U5M68 on 2005-12-05
  If there is some justice to misjudging investments in movies, then the fact that this film went directly to DVD despite the presence of a crew that includes some impressive names is notable. Writer Stephen Gaghan ('Traffic', 'Rules of Engagement', 'Syriana', etc) has composed a contrived script about rich, bored, Hip Hop imitating, unmotivated teenagers trying to spice up their insignificant lives by treading into the East LA 'danger zone', an experience from which they learn nothing about cross cultural ethnic groups and just return to Pacific Palisades whining about 'damaged goods'. It is an insulting story, one that stereotypes Hispanics as drug-peddling, raping thugs in a totally black and white manner, not taking into consideration the viewpoint of a cultural group's positive attributes and philosophies.
  
  No longer a viable gimmick, the film begins with the tired cliché of a kid making a documentary about his friends, asking what they like and don't like, their goals, their outlooks. The fact that none of the interviewees has a clue about life, preferring to follow the current Hip Hop language (very poorly written) and focusing on sex, drugs, and escapes from their wealthy environments. Among these are three girls, the main character being Allison (Anne Hathaway, miscast in every way), who follow their superficial boyfriends on a joyride for drugs into East LA. There they meet Hector (Freddy Rodríguez, trying his best to create a character without the benefit of a decent script) who sells them drugs and whom Allison eyes. Allison is so shallow she doesn't have a clue about her motivations, just wanting something 'dangerous' to happen. She coaxes her equally clueless girlfriends into going into East LA to seduce Hector and ends up in a ridiculous barter for joining Hector's gang (no mention is made at all about the Chicanas who would never allow these three geeks to enter their territory unchallenged). The results of a barter results in an experience with which the girls cannot cope so they run back to the protection of the dysfunctional parents they loathe to cover the mess of their caper. Attempts to resolve this dumb story fail pathetically.
  
  With so many fine Indie films that go begging for attention, it is a shame money is wasted on this sort of meaningless mess of a film. The 'unrated' designation is probably meant for the occasional nudity and gratuitous sex and language, but here 'Unrated' might just mean that the film is so without merit that it is non-classifiable. Avoid this one and don't think that a fine writer such as Gaghan guarantees a successful story. Grady Harp, December 05
  
  
  
  

• The Dreamers (Original Uncut NC-17 Version)
• Lie With Me
• Uncovered
• 9 songs - Unrated Full Uncut Version
• Gia (Unrated Edition)