Karry
Best movie of this year hands down!
Voxitype
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Mathilde the Guild
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
wes-connors
Writer/director Frank E. Flowers makes "Haven" in the disjointed, jumped-up style resembling his production team's more successful "Crash", which is supposed to be this film's selling point. But, "Haven" only emphasizes what goes wrong with this type of picture. Instead of fresh, it's frazzled. As the story lines wobble around, the cameras leave a relatively engaging Victor Rasuk (as Fritz).Then, reminding you of "Crash" connections, the film's hooded "Romeo and Juliet" storyline takes hold. "On the idyllic shores of the Cayman Islands, Shy (Orlando Bloom) and Andrea (Zoe Saldana) share a secret her parents can never know - they are in love. But a night of passion leads to the discovery of their secret and a devastating act of vengeance by Andrea's brother (Anthony Mackie)."Meanwhile, a shady American businessman (Bill Paxton) has fled with his daughter to the Islands to avoid federal prosecution, only to be drawn into a dangerous web of deceit. As lives intersect and truths are revealed, a chain reaction of violence is set in motion that will determine whether love can survive the fall of paradise," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis. It all ends by… stopping.**** Haven (9/11/04) Frank E. Flowers ~ Orlando Bloom, Zoe Saldana, Bill Paxton, Victor Rasuk
Pepijn Schmitz
What a horrible movie. It's pretentious and wannabe cool, but the video-clip style editing and constant jumping in time just serve to annoy and confuse. The main problem is the depressing story though. It's about miserable people who all end up miserable, with no redeeming features such as an interesting character study or something like that. It appears to be an attempt at having many seemingly unrelated plot lines coming together at the end like a jigsaw puzzle, but the connections are so tenuous and arbitrary that that aspect falls entirely flat.Utterly pointless, except for people who enjoy watching misery. The three out of ten is purely for the location, which slightly redeems the movie as something to watch for the pretty pictures.
gypsyelfayden
When I first saw Haven mentioned in an article about Orlando Bloom I was picturing yet another love story, but I was very much mistaken. There is a lot of cussing in it, but the acting is wonderful, especially by Bloom.I was pleased to see they actually shot on location sites that you would see on Grand Cayman instead of stating where the story was set once while shooting on some set in London somewhere or something like that. It gave it a real feel for the island but didn't make it a tour guide to the island. I especially liked the scene in Georgetown when you see the little old lady singing on the street corner for money, it brought back memories of being there myself. But having grown up as Grand Cayman as a second home I have never heard any of the locals use about half the slang that they were using, and there were randomly placed subtitles of the locals speaking in English which was mildly annoying.Definitely worth your time to watch.
CKCSWHFFAN
As stated in the title, I only watched the film to see Orlando. He looked great EVEN after the acid on part of his face bit.He did do a good job with his role.But, the film??..I was so confused. Jumping back & forth, repeating bits.Start the film with Orlando & the actress from Pirates 1 then we do NOT see him again until over 25 minutes later. Bill Paxton I have never liked & he could not act his way out of a wet paper bag.Left hanging at the end of the film.Yep, she turns 18, has her boyfriend spend the night with her so she turns into a whore on drugs. Hey, dummy-YOU COULD HAVE LEFT HOME YOU KNOW IF YOUR FAMILY TREATED YOU THAT BADLY.I am glad I did NOT buy the DVD, I only watched it on TV. Even with Orlando to look at it would have been a waste of money.
