Haven (2004)
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 62
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 54
The plot's gratuitously nonlinear structure only ends up confusing viewers of this island thriller.
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 18
The plot's gratuitously nonlinear structure only ends up confusing viewers of this island thriller.
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When a corrupt Miami businessman flees to the Cayman Islands with his daughter and a million dollars in dirty money, the resulting inferno threatens to consume father, daughter, and even a few unsuspecting innocents in a sun soaked crime drama starring Bill Paxton, Orlando Bloom, and Agnes Bruckner. Carl Ridley (Paxton) was desperate to escape the law when he boarded an airplane for the Cayman Islands, but as the heat starts to rise in paradise, he's about to realize that there are some fates
Cast
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Orlando Bloom
Shy -
Bill Paxton
Carl Ridley -
Zoe Saldana
Andrea -
Anthony Mackie
Hammer -
Agnes Bruckner
Pippa Ridley -
Victor Rasuk
Fritz -
Joy Bryant
Sheila -
Stephen Dillane
Mr. Allen -
Bobby Cannavale
Agent Martinez -
Razaaq Adoti
Ritchie Rich -
Lee Ingleby
Patrick -
Robert Wisdom
Mr. Sterling -
Sarah Carter
Trust Fund #1 -
Santiago Cabrera
Gene -
Caroline Goodall
Shy's Mom -
Mpho Koaho
Kimo -
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Rachel Miner
Eva -
Peter O'Meara
Officer Franklin -
Serena Scott Thomas
Helen Allen -
Jake Weber
Officer Powell -
Troy Sanford
Jr. Gangsta -
Josh Bernard
Boo -
Marcia Muttoo
Andrea's Mom -
Joel Francis
Brother White -
Clifton Bennett
Jerk Chef
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All Critics (67) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (58) | DVD (11)
The goal seems to have been to create a multilayered thriller, but the senseless, verbose and convoluted saga never generates simple suspense, let alone tension.
Top CriticThe presence in the ensemble of Orlando Bloom, who also serves as a producer, could be an initial enticement, but his performance is one of the weakest in a mixed bag.
An ineffective experiment about ugly things happening in a beautiful place.
It's a muddled, disjointed and fairly undramatic film.
A long-shelved, watchable but mediocre Mobius strip of a thriller.
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.
Writer/director Frank E. Flowers loses track of his own narrative puzzle that includes a story about a shady but rich Floridian (Bill Paxton) with an 18-year-old daughter (Agnes Bruckner %u2013 "Blue Car") escaping to Grand Cayman from the feds who want t
... it seems that Fox was not confident enough in the film to provide any good extras.
What the film lacks in dramatic depth it makes up for in its visuals, which keep viewer attention even when the story drags.
The audience just has to work a little too hard to see through the bad editing to the Haven that lies beneath, no matter how interesting and promising that movie may be.
Flowers' manic style...leaves little room to consider what is actually going on beyond all the eye candy and sensory numbing.
Haven is a heavy drama, directed with an even heavier hand.
By the time this quasi Robert Altman-like meeting of unrelated characters happens -- and even if the viewer has kept track of all the characters -- it's hard to care about much of anything, other than knowing the film is nearly over.
[Director Frank E.] Flowers is clearly talented, with an eye for local color, but grasp of character and psychology is tenuous, and his roundabout, double-back structure quickly grows tiresome and annoying...
A mess. Orlando Bloom had better get those Elves ears back on.
Flowers's directorial debut is sometimes a little hard to follow, but shows genuine concern and hope for his native land.
The tone is moody and bleak, the characters are petty jackasses, and Flowers' heavy-handed messages about colonialism are trite.
An extraordinary directorial debut that just may knock your socks off, or at least your flip-flops. ... Though Flowers may be accused of sensationalizing his subject, there's no denying his stunning cinematic flourishes.
Likely to leave you scratching your head--not merely because the plot's so hard to follow but because you'll be wondering why anybody thought it was worth making.
Lacking purpose or thoughtful complexity, Flowers' film is an overly ambitious mess.
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