RavenGlamDVDCollector 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.

Chrysanthepop 'Havoc' is pretty much like any other teen-rebel film but it's not that bad for a one-time watch. The late Jessica Kaplan wrote the screenplay as a teenager and with that regard it's pretty impressive. However, as a stand alone there isn't much that stays after the rolling of the end credits. Some scenes are well executed and the dialogues are interesting. The scenes with the gangsters and the two girls were also well handled. I also liked how the gangster characters were written. They were bad people but not devils. The dark humour also works for the most parts. Anna Hathaway and Freddy Rodriguez do a find job. Bijou Philips too does a decent job. Most of the rest of the younger cast, especially the actors that play 'wiggers' are quite awful. For a one time watch, I didn't mind 'Havoc'. In parts, the film doesn't do a bad job in presenting the dark themes such as teenagers bored with a 'safe' life and pretending to be what they're not, but, it could have developed it further as towards the end, 'Havoc' does appear patchy and rushed.

nikitakv Let me tell you, after sitting through it, I was going to come here and totally trash it. I was going to call it an abomination of film making, etc. But luckily I decided to see what other people thought and find out a little more about the director/story. I really wasn't sure how to interpret it. I'm glad that I did that, because now I think I get it. This is one of those movies that comes so close to the truth, it should almost be taken as a documentary, rather than a feature film. There is no compelling plot, there is no hero, there is no big story/lesson. This movie reflects real life so well, that it completely fails to give you the feelings you expect a movie to give. Because real life, unlike a movie, is very slow, quiet and subtle. It's like a story you'd hear someone tell about someone else, and the ending, more likely than not, would be that in the end nothing happened, everyone went their separate ways. I would call this movie a valse between the themes of what is real, fake and reality. A lot of the people who give this movie a high rating sympathies with a Latino gang, because they perceive them as real. I think these people miss the point, because while the gang may seem more conscientious of their presence, or more in touch with reality, they are still pieces of crap. I mean, they're drug dealers who sell crack- cocaine! They're real alright, real and evil. And while the little white girl(s) who get(s) good grades and not enough lessons in reality from their parents, that is, why they live in a nice house and gated community, as opposed to say, a crack ghetto? Are just confused, scared, lonely and forced into these situations/realities. They're too naive, young and stupid to know better and with no strong parental involvement (the girl even has a line akin to that in the movie "You're never here!" she yells at her dad) it's not really their fault that they find themselves in these places.Like I said, I was going to give this film a bad rating and a bad review, but realizing just how deep and close it cuts to the truth of the matter, I'm going to give it the best rating there is on this system, because that is what I feel it deserves.

cosmeltini If you've grown up in suburbia, you've known kids who act this way.Before watching the movie I wasn't expecting the turns it took, all in all it was pretty good. Incredibly gratifying to see wiggers and wannabes get mixed in with the real deal. The shallow parents and the shallow teens are fairly true to life, if you're familiar with the Palisades.The film isn't necessarily about teaching lessons or any after school special for sure, Anne Hathaway is not all T n A in this movie like someone else commented, if that's all you remember then you've got problems. Don't get me wrong, there are lessons that can be learned through the character's experience, however it isn't the focus. It's about an experience this main character needed, in order to get out of her Palisades bubble and finally grow up.