Ok so my favorite movie channel has to be IFC. They show the best lil off beat movies, uncensored and uncut. I will pretty much DVR any movie that remotely sounds interesting because they rarely show crap. Anyways so I have had a tasty little number by the name of
Havoc waiting for me for several weeks already. Since my spring break started out at a whopping 30 degrees I decided today was a good time to watch it. It was released in 2005 and it stars Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips, Freddie Rodriguez and a
handful of unknowns. Within the first 10 minutes of this movie I was seriously tempted to turn it off....yeah it was that lame. In a nutshell, rich white kids acting urban. It was almost ridiculous. Think of Malibu's Most Wanted, but they were serious. So the only thing that kept me watching was Anne Hathaway, I was so curious as to why in the world she chose to do this project after the Princess Diaries, which was such a huge success. Needless to say, it got better...kind of. Anne and Bijou's characters belonged to a "gang" with 4 other guys (one being Channing Tatum who has 2 lines in the whole movie) in LA. The group gets bored one night and ends up in East LA (a predominantly Hispanic part of LA) and looks to score some drugs. One of the yuppies gets into an altercation with Freddie's character who is their dealer. If you pay attention you notice Ann
e's character almost turned on by how he roughs up her at the time boyfriend. That leads her to several trips to East LA to hang out with Freddie's character. Eventually one night she takes her friend and they decide they want to join the 16th street gang which is the gang Freddie's character belongs to. That part made me crack up, and what made me enjoy that scene is that the members of the 16th street gang found it just as humorous. They decided to just let them in, knowing that those girls did not know about how females get initiated into a gang. They didn't. The dumb broads go through with it well one does, the other backs out in the middle of it. Fast Foward a few days....one cries rape.....Fast Foward......Gang War...or so they want you to think...they miss each other as the yups head to the ghetto and vice versa. Their paths cross and the screen goes black, you hear gunshots but don't know what happens. That scene was actually shot really well. And that pretty much rounds up the movie. It was very inconsistant. Anne's performance carried this entire movie. She did an amazing job. I love Freddie R
odriguez, but he was playing the stereotypical cholo and didn't have much depth. And as for Bijou Phillips, her role was the same as all the other B-list movies she has done. The flaky slut friend who can't keep her shit together. I don't know what it was about this movie but all in all I kind of liked it. A great scene was where Anne's character got some crack so she and Bijou's character decide to smoke it. Well they don't know how so they place all of the rocks on a big piece of foil and torch the bottom. They had no idea what they were doing, they were just going by what they had seen on TV and stuff and in the end torched their stash. It was funny to me. And then the laughter was quickly killed as the girls began to rap an exerpt from Jay Z's song "Can I Get A.." It made me cringe, I was embarassed for them. There are parts I could have done without and elements of the storyline that would have made things less stupid, but I would def consider adding this movie to my collection.
handful of unknowns. Within the first 10 minutes of this movie I was seriously tempted to turn it off....yeah it was that lame. In a nutshell, rich white kids acting urban. It was almost ridiculous. Think of Malibu's Most Wanted, but they were serious. So the only thing that kept me watching was Anne Hathaway, I was so curious as to why in the world she chose to do this project after the Princess Diaries, which was such a huge success. Needless to say, it got better...kind of. Anne and Bijou's characters belonged to a "gang" with 4 other guys (one being Channing Tatum who has 2 lines in the whole movie) in LA. The group gets bored one night and ends up in East LA (a predominantly Hispanic part of LA) and looks to score some drugs. One of the yuppies gets into an altercation with Freddie's character who is their dealer. If you pay attention you notice Ann
e's character almost turned on by how he roughs up her at the time boyfriend. That leads her to several trips to East LA to hang out with Freddie's character. Eventually one night she takes her friend and they decide they want to join the 16th street gang which is the gang Freddie's character belongs to. That part made me crack up, and what made me enjoy that scene is that the members of the 16th street gang found it just as humorous. They decided to just let them in, knowing that those girls did not know about how females get initiated into a gang. They didn't. The dumb broads go through with it well one does, the other backs out in the middle of it. Fast Foward a few days....one cries rape.....Fast Foward......Gang War...or so they want you to think...they miss each other as the yups head to the ghetto and vice versa. Their paths cross and the screen goes black, you hear gunshots but don't know what happens. That scene was actually shot really well. And that pretty much rounds up the movie. It was very inconsistant. Anne's performance carried this entire movie. She did an amazing job. I love Freddie R
odriguez, but he was playing the stereotypical cholo and didn't have much depth. And as for Bijou Phillips, her role was the same as all the other B-list movies she has done. The flaky slut friend who can't keep her shit together. I don't know what it was about this movie but all in all I kind of liked it. A great scene was where Anne's character got some crack so she and Bijou's character decide to smoke it. Well they don't know how so they place all of the rocks on a big piece of foil and torch the bottom. They had no idea what they were doing, they were just going by what they had seen on TV and stuff and in the end torched their stash. It was funny to me. And then the laughter was quickly killed as the girls began to rap an exerpt from Jay Z's song "Can I Get A.." It made me cringe, I was embarassed for them. There are parts I could have done without and elements of the storyline that would have made things less stupid, but I would def consider adding this movie to my collection.
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