hlund17 this film sucks.You've got to wonder, who made this? Oh yeah, the master of crap himself Albert Pyun. The fact that Pyun and the producer jacked the people of Guam to fund this movie is only to be expected. Pyun and his producer are Hollywood hucksters that make crap film after crappy film. After getting swindled by Pyun and his producer out of a million dollars, I wonder how the people of Guam feel who don't seem to have money for schools and roads and basic needs of their citizens ?If you see this in your video store - run, don't walk. It's a complete piece of sh*t. But say a prayer for the people of Guam who are in the process of suing the film makers....

websterzzzzz I found this film on the bottom shelf of the video store I go to and I gave it a shot. Stupid me: It was on the bottom of the shelf for a reason....This want-to-be martial arts film takes place here on the island of Guam (BTW, the Government of Guam got duped into giving the producer and director the budget for the film in hopes of encouraging tourism on the Island. Of course all the producer and director gave them was a stupid worthless movie. It seems the producer and director got 800,000$ from the Government of Guam for a 3rd party loan and then the film makers defaulted on the loan, formed a new company and bought back the film for 9,000$. And of course Guam is out the 800,000$...).Two sisters steal a jade statue from some Japanese gangsters and Max Haovc, visiting the island to photograph something or another, helps the sisters out. Max Havoc (yeah, that's his name. You kinda get an idea about how good the script is to a film where they name their main character Max Havoc) was a kick boxer who killed a man in the ring (we know this from the 450 times the incident is shown in SLOW MOTION FLASHBACK).The martial arts fights are 4th rate, the acting is 5th rate, the music is 6th rate, the direction is 7th rate and so on...The whole movie has a "rip-off" vibe to it. Carmen Electra is billed as the star and she's in it for about 45 seconds, so yeah, it's one of those "rip-off" movies on the bottom of the video store shelf. It's best to just leave it there, collecting dust.Don't waste your time or money. Seriously God awful....

wsacnor Don't believe all these negative reviews here for MAX HAVOC: CURSE OF THE DRAGON, it's worse. Way worse.This is one of those films you sort of stumble upon at the video store, and everything else good or halfway good is already checked out, so you give it a shot, knowing full well the film is going to suck. But just how bad MAX HAVOC sucks may shock you: It's dull, boring, tiresome, listless, etc, etc. You get the idea.Someone on one of these reviews here compares MAX HAVOC to an episode of MANGNUM P.I., except MANGNUM P.I. is at lest a competent product. MAX HAVOC is wretchedly bad. It's the kind of bad-film in which you wonder while watching it: "How do films like this get made?" A very good question.MAX HAVOC was made by consistently bad film maker Albert Pyun. You wonder why anyone would knowingly hire this hack. The film is full of stock footage, bad acting, the list can go on forever.There is currently some kinda controversy over the financing of the film. The island of Guam put up the money for this film (who can say why. I guess they have never seen an Albert Pyun film because that's exactly what they got: An Albert Pyun incompetent sh*t film.)Folks, if you're a film investor and you see the name Albert Pyun attached to the film some slimy film producer is asking you to invest in, be afraid. Be very afraid.If this film were an animal it would be taken out back and shot and put out of it's misery. If you're unfortunate enough to have to endure this dung-heap DVD, you may wish someone would shoot you and put you out of your misery.MAX HAVOC: CURSE OF THE DRAGON is maximum incompetencey, maximum tedium, and maximum thievery.

Frank Markland Max Havoc (Mickey Hardt) is an ex-kickboxer turned photographer who protects two attractive sisters from the Yakuza led by David Carradine. Seems that one of the sisters bought a jade dragon from dealer Richard Roundtree and after numerous awkward moments, Max Havoc saves the day but doesn't save the film. As far as narrative flow goes, Max Havoc:Curse Of The Dragon is possibly Pyun's most chaotic movie ever made. (And I saw Nemesis 1-3, Bloodmatch and Deceit) The problem with Max Havoc is that it only provides occasional laughter. From laughably overblown suspense sequences that involve hostage taking, getting run over by a row-boat, getting cut up in a limo and much much more. However Pyun actually makes the biggest mistake by hardly giving us any dumb moments and basically the movie is mostly dulls-ville. There is some controversy over how this movie was made, but I for one am indifferent to such matters. Sure it's not right but i'm not here to discuss politics and my neutral observations are simple; Max Havoc is a terrible movie with only a few (unintentionally) hilarious moments to keep you from shutting it off. Among the unintentionally hilarious moments is how Pyun pays direct "homage" to Cyborg (itself a masterpiece compared to this) in that Pyun shows pointless flashbacks for no other reason but to stretch out the running time. In this case we watch Max Havoc deliver a jumping punch which is then followed by David Carradine looking mean into the camera and smoking his cigarette and showing his rings. Also the ending makes no sense and the impression here is given that the movie wasn't even indeed finished. Max Havoc:Curse Of The Dragon is so incompetently edited that fight sequences are literally scrapped before the confrontation ends! Also the story is so over the map it's impossible to follow it coherently and finally the movie features acting so terrible that it sometimes borders on surreality. David Carradine and Richard Roundtree look (rightfully) embarrassed, Carmen Electra is not in it much and newcomer Mickey Hardt is so bad that he makes other Pyun leads (a list that includes Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sasha Mitchell, Michael Dudikoff,Gary Daniels, Steven Seagal and (shudder) Olivier Gruner) seem like master thespians. Seriously where did they find this guy? Still the main question is whether Max Havoc:Curse Of The Dragon works as a guilty pleasure style movie, and sadly the answer is no. There are a few laughs to be had but mainly we watch Mickey Hardt snap photos for like forty minutes before anything happens and this in itself is a tragedy because without dumb action, Max Havoc:Curse Of The Dragon is just painful to watch.Note:On the DVD there is a biography of David Carradine and Richard Roundtree however both sections neglect to mention Bound For Glory,Kill Bill Vol.1 and Shaft on the filmography for the two distinguished actors. Which only shows the ineptitude of all involved.* out of 4-(Bad)