Haven 2004

Critics score:
13 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Peter Debruge, Miami Herald: 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. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The film is a fancy-pants muddle in terms of technique. Read more

Ted Fry, Seattle Times: An ineffective experiment about ugly things happening in a beautiful place. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's a muddled, disjointed and fairly undramatic film. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: There's a lot of good actors here and they're doing what they can with the material but I just think it's all over the place. Read more

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Haven has the makings of a decadent nighttime soap, but none of the components of a cohesive, satisfying film. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Bloom is the giant void at the center of the film, and his laughable histrionics pull Haven firmly into camp territory. Read more

Kathy Cano Murillo, Arizona Republic: While the events are engaging in a minimovie way, as a whole they make for one bungled flick. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Despite Flowers's obvious ambition ... Haven rarely feels more than third-rate. Read more

Michael Ordona, Los Angeles Times: Although writer-director Frank E. Flowers, making his feature-film debut, falls into the common traps of MTV-Soderbergh progeny, busybody editing and camera action, he generates tension with relatively strong storytelling and compelling relationships. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Time will tell if Bloom can grow, but Haven suggests writer-director Flowers may become a perennial pleasure. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A terminally muddled crime drama. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: A movie that would go down easier if you didn't have a feeling you'd seen it already. Read more

Luke Y. Thompson, L.A. Weekly: The Tarantinoesque nonlinear structure [Flowers] employs would be risky even in Quentin's hands, and is downright self-sabotaging here. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: More a mediocrity than a shipwreck. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: 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. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A long-shelved, watchable but mediocre Mobius strip of a thriller. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Orlando Bloom is the name star in Haven and also serves as executive producer, which must mean he thought making the film was a good idea. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: 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. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Eddie Cockrell, Variety: Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: What Haven is selling is cultural vividness. Each detail feels right. Read more