I rented this DVD as a result of it mentioned on the again that it was made by the “same team” that introduced us Crash. Since Crash has been one in all my all-time favorites, I believed I’d be handled to the identical degree of intelligence and excellence – not!
This is principally a 115 minute hip-hop music video with virtually a “guest appearance” by Bill Paxton. If Haven was an entry in a digital camera methods competitors it may need gained a “Golden Handheld Camera” award. But 1000’s of sensible close-ups, an out-of-breath modifying and a wonderful island a film don’t make.
The story is thoughts bogglingly easy and trite. Two con artists (in Florida?) evade the feds and leap to the Cayman Islands. Bill Paxton is likely one of the dangerous guys who takes to the island his teenage daughter and an obscene amount of money wrapped round his physique.
At that time, the plot snaps and we’re launched a very new set of characters consisting of a poor fisherman child, a stunning black lady (with robust resemblance to Thandie Newton of Crash) who comes from an higher class household and her jealous brother who would cease at nothing to cease his sister’s affair with the working-class child from the unsuitable facet of the marina.
This “Caribbean Romeo and Juliet” theme is smothered beneath layer upon layer of medication, booze, countless partying round swimming swimming pools the place all the pieces goes, a number of cussing and cursing and posturing by a military of preening bling-bling gangstas with an excessive amount of testosterone for their very own good… going spherical and spherical in countless wash cycles.
And what occurs to the Bill Saxton character and her daughter? I believe in some unspecified time in the future he finds himself on the receiving finish of a handgun and agrees to half together with his money.
And the Romeo child who loves the Juliet lady has a foul factor occur to him but on the finish each primary characters have a Socratic conversion and disown all medication and violence.
So we’re left there twisting within the balmy commerce winds with no closure in sight however the music retains blaring within the background if that is any comfort in any respect.
I’ve a sense, lengthy after the discerning movie lovers acquired up in the midst of this Crash-impersonator and went residence, the Haven’s crew have been nonetheless partying on the Caymans.
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