Havoc: Unrated Edition

Maybe I'm just growing into a bit of a miserable twat this year, I've been unimpressed by a lot of the recent movies I've seen and a film gaining a one star rating was bound to come sooner then later and Havoc directed by Oscar winning director Barbara Kopple and Oscar winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan (Traffic) is sadly the first.

Maybe white people pretending to be wiggers just doesn't interest like it does some people, maybe the fact the script was on the shelf for over ten years said something, or maybe the fact it went straight to home video (despite the Oscar pedigree) could have been a slight clue. The film is basically about rich valley girls trying to be street (with dum dum dum- consequences at the end of the movie). They are some plus points and mainly reside inside the clothing of ex-Disney princess Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips, whilst Freddy Rodriguez and Joseph Gordon-Levitt aren't bad in their roles, whilst Michael Biehn and Laura San Giacomo just seemed wasted. The film just lacks any real life or spark and would fail to interest anybody into this sort of life and culture. In the lead Anne Hathaway clearly as a career away from Disney and does show it, but the kid making the video just comes across as a bit of a cliche.

Sadly, it's not a very good movie, there's about a thousand and one youth films out there, that are much better, better. Just give it a miss unless you want to see Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips topless. (R1 only)

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