Perfectly adorable

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

This thing was some sort of a tax write off, right? And the filmmakers all ran afoul of the authorities in Guam and were dragooned into the production as part of some state-sanctioned community service? I can't think of another explanation for the lackluster, don't-give-a-crap quality of this inaction flick. I mean, the genre of taking a martial artist, sticking him in front of a camera and having him fake fight guys until you've got enough footage for a feature film is notoriously terrible. Maybe not quite a bad as the zombie genre, but within spitting distance. But most genre trash like this is either made by people who don't know it's trash or for people who don't know it's trash, resulting in movies that at least have a sort of adolescent striving for coolness and badassery. Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon has its star spend most of the flick in a floral shirt, shorts and a pair of "mandels". An action hero in "mandels"? Yeah, they really weren't even trying with this thing.Max Havoc (Mickey Hardt) is a former kickboxer-turned sports photographer who gets sent to Guam for a cushy assignment snapping pics for a hotel ad campaign. While there, he gets caught between deadly assassins seeking an ancient jade sculpture and the beautiful woman (Joanna Krupa) who doesn't want to give it back. Richard Roundtree and David Carradine also show up in small roles and do nothing but make you wish somebody had done a Shaft/Kung Fu mash-up back in the day.Now, there are so many negative comments to make about this plot, this dialog, the somnambulant direction of Albert Pyun, the half-a-note acting of Mickey Hardt and the fact that this thing looks more like a video from the Guam Tourism Bureau than it does an action movie. I would imagine that most anybody who'll ever be interested in watching Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon won't care about that stuff, so why bother. Instead, let me focus on what the likely viewer of this joke will care about and tell you how much that stuff sucks.First, none of the women in the cast get naked. Not Joanna Krupa. Not Carmen Electra. Not Tawney Sablan. None of them. There are no sex scenes at all. Scenes with them in bikinis is as racy as it gets.Second, the fight scenes here are both rather short and fairly lame. A lot of it looks like bad pro wrestling, the kind where guys get "hit" and then they jump in the air and flip around. Hardt may be a legitimate ass-kicker in real life. In this film, it barely looks like he can break an egg. I've seen better fight scenes on Walker: Texas Ranger. Heck, I've seen better fight scenes on Fraiser and How I Met Your Mother.Third, there's a lot of talking in this movie. A lot. Hardt and his too pink, too-big-for-his-face lips talk a lot. Krupa talks a lot while remaining frustratingly clothed. Tawney Sablan talks a lot. Even Carmen Electra in a cameo talks a lot. I won't say there's as much yakking here as your average Woody Allen movie or an old episode of thirtysomething, but there's an enormous mass of conversatin' going of for a low-budget action flick. I guess all that dialog does give Krupa and Sablan a chance to show they're adequate actresses, but that's balanced out by exposing Hardt as having all the acting talent of a roast beef sandwich.If you're going to make something like Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon and you can't be bothered to proved naked chicks to leer at or people getting the snot beat out of them in entertaining ways, why are you bothering?And you know what the worst part is? There's a sequel to this thing. A sequel! Gah. I strongly recommend you avoid this movie and think the people who thought there should be another should be shot out of a cannon.

When the movie ended, I pondered what I had just viewed. I had already wasted time watching the movie, now I wasted time contemplating all that was wrong with the movie.It's no secret that less-than-adequate acting is a common trait in action movies, but this was extremely bad. It was as if the director accepted the first take for every scene. Some of the well known names in this movie did fine, but the two main characters were awful, as were the no-name actors.Looks like this was filmed on location at an island resort. I'm guessing the crew either forgot to bring the lighting sets, or the budget wasn't big enough to cover the cost of transporting the lights to the location. Indoor and evening scenes were too dark. Maybe the darkness was intentional. Maybe the director realized the lame attempts at expressions needed to be concealed. If the cast of female babes in skimpy outfits was an attempt to make up for the acting, the effort failed due to lousy lighting.If you do decide to rent this, I recommend fast forwarding to the fight scenes. They are somewhat decent. I was disappointed that Johnny Nguyen didn't do more fighting.David Carradine, Richard Roundtree, Johnny Nguyen, Danielle Burgio, Arnold Chon, and even Carmen Electra should hang their heads in shame for signing up for this one.I hope Hardt does better in the European scene. As for Krupa, she needs to stick to modeling.

I recently had the opportunity to view "Max Havoc" and was pleased with what I saw. It was shot in beautiful Guam and has an all-star cast, David Carradine, Carmen Electra, Mickey Hardt & Richard Roundtree. For the most part, "Havoc" was enjoyable and I would recommend to anyone that is a fan of traditional Martial Arts films.Exotic action/adventure and martial arts blend together in a new franchise: Max Havoc. In Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon, Max Havoc (Mickey Hardt), world famous kickboxer turned sports photographer, returns to Guam and faces the relentless Black Dragons, in an reluctant quest to save the lovely Goody sisters (Joanna Krupa, Tawney Sablan) and to avenge the death of good friend Tahsi (Richard Roundtree).

We've all seen them: bad movies. However, MAX HAVOC: CURSE OF THE DRAGON sinks to uncharted lows of stupidity and boredom. I guess this mess seemed like a good idea to some mentally bankrupt "Hollywood Never-Beens," but even an Elementary school film-maker wouldn't be proud of this celluloid atrocity. A sports photographer goes to the Island of Guam to shoot pictures of something, I don't know what and the screenwriters (There were two!!!) doesn't seem to know either. His name, Max Havoc, is straight out of a bad 80's action film (except it's a bad 2004 action film). While in Guam he runs into some girls who can't act and they involve him in some mind numbing plot points and there's lots of remedial kung-fu "action."Carmen Electra is in the film for all of 10 seconds but she's got the top-billing. (Yeah, it's one of those rip-off films. The DVD case says: STARRING CARMEN ELECTRA and she's barely in the film. Not only are you, the viewer, ripped off by this film it looks like the Islanders on Guam were ripped off too as the producers got the Locals to sign a loan deal that went bad ((of course - they make bad movies and default on production loans!!)) or some such sh*t.) There's all the clichéd scenes you expect in a Grade-F "action film." Lots of slow-motion, yelling and running around. No car chases but there is an "action" scene with a boat that's going about 2mph! The girls don't take any clothes off, so you don't even got that. The film reminded me of one of those bad "skin-a-max" films you see in Hotel rooms, except there was no porn in this film just bad story, bad sets, bad acting, bad lighting and bad direction. At least the film-makers were consistently bad: Not one single good thing appears anywhere in this film!The film ends (thank you, God!): Max Havoc chases away the bad kung-fu guys and gets the girl, Guam gets pinched for the film's budget and you, for having made the mistake of picking this turd up, gets ripped off for whatever Blockbuster charged you.