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22
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Haven
Freestyle Releasing LLC / Yari Film Group Releasing
MPAA RATING: R for language, drug use, sexual content and some violence
Starring
Bill Paxton,
Orlando Bloom,
Stephen Dillane,
Zoe Saldana,
Razaaq Adoti,
Agnes Bruckner,
Victor Rasuk, Lee Ingleby,
and
Anthony Mackie
Written and directed by native Caymanian Frank E. Flowers, and filmed entirely in the 100-square mile West Indies paradise, Haven is an edgy, suspenseful, viscerally gripping ensemble film in which unconnected lives intersect and ignite a violent chain of events that turns tranquility into chaos. In an instant, greed collides with innocence and passion goes up against those who forbid it, and all at once an idyllic tropical refuge becomes anything but safe. (Yari Film Group Releasing)
| GENRE(S): |
Crime
|
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Frank E. Flowers
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Frank E. Flowers
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 26, 2006
Theatrical: September 15, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
115 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / UK / Germany / Spain |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Those expecting an exhilarating, "Pulp Fiction"-style wrap-up will also be disappointed. Instead, Flowers gives us the impression - as the end of "Traffic" did - that we've just taken a few turns on a merry-go-round of doom that is going to keep spinning long after the movie ends.
70
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The movie is small but sensational. I don't know what writer-director Frank E. Flowers might lose by trying to take his career international, but he has real talent.
60
Los Angeles Times
Michael Ordona
Haven is far from perfect, with some uncomfortable pacing, wayward accents and less-than-satisfying denouements. But it's a refreshing, character-driven antidote to the late-summer movie-house blahs, and Flowers looks like a talent worth watching.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Furiously crossing and double-crossing, the two main story lines never quite fuse or comment on each other.
50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Silly little thriller.
50
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
A trashy thriller of the kind that used to make up the second half of double bills in crumbling downtown theaters, circa 1977.
42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
The film boasts compelling performances--from Bruckner, and especially from Stephen Dillane as a wildly pragmatic money-man who radiates well-deserved cynicism. But Bloom is the giant void at the center of the film, and his laughable histrionics pull Haven firmly into camp territory.
40
Variety
Eddie Cockrell
A seesaw chronology and generally chaotic approach plagues Haven, an overly ambitious, multicharacter love story-cum-underworld revenge drama set on a fleetingly exotic island.
38
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
There's less than meets the eye to writer-director Flowers' time-hopping narrative, and what could have been a routine but entertaining crime story gets hopelessly muddled in its telling, despite the efforts of a generally strong cast.
38
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Like a mango rotting in the sun, Frank Flowers' squishy Caribbean thriller has been sitting on the shelf long enough to attract suspicion. Bite into it at your own risk.
38
Miami Herald
Peter Debruge
Flowers' ''style'' suffers from attention deficit disorder, leaving just enough vital information for you to follow the convoluted plot. But just when one story gets rolling, he's off and chasing another.
38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The film is a fancy-pants muddle in terms of technique. And if Bloom doesn't do something about his smirky tendency to troll for audience approval, his career may be severely limited.
33
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Terminally muddled crime drama.
30
LA Weekly
Luke Y. Thompson
As a director, newcomer Frank E. Flowers shows a flair for visuals and characters, but as a writer, he needs work. The Tarantinoesque nonlinear structure he employs would be risky even in Quentin's hands, and is downright self-sabotaging here.
30
The New York Times
Nathan Lee
From a producer of "Crash" comes Haven, an even phonier exercise in manufactured conflict, facile irony and preposterous contrivance.
30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This interminable, poorly constructed drug thriller by writer-director Frank E. Flowers sat on the shelf for two years before winning a release.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It's just horsing around that comes to nothing. No, it's worse. It's horsing around designed to disguise nothing as something.
25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Welcome to the tawdry end of paradise, where no melodrama is too obvious and no conflict too contrived.
20
Austin Chronicle
Toddy Burton
Lacking purpose or thoughtful complexity, Flowers' film is an overly ambitious mess.
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