In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Max Havoc is stupidly written, horrendously directed and barley even "acted" at all. This film is on a cinematic par with a public service cable TV documentary on gum disease, or toe nail fungus or chronic acne, and I would rather suffer from all of those ailments at once then see another frame of this piece of sh*t again. Nobody involved with this movie should have a career in movies; none of the actors, not the director, not the producer and none of the crew. None of them. All of the reviews here for this film state what a giant, stinking piece of sh*t this move is. It's an understatement to compare this film to a turd.You could take children, give them a video camera, and they would come up with a better film then this.Does anyone know the location of piece-of-sh*t director Albert Pyun or piece-of-sh*t producer John Laing so I can ask them about getting that 90 minutes of my life back that I wasted on this film? Yeah, they probably think they made a good film. They probably think they did us all a favor by making it. They probably think they have talent. They don't. They suck!

The movie starts off with a bunch of stock footage of a motor-bike race, and continues for about another 15 minutes until there's a fight at a bar with sports Photographer Max Havoc (they don't tell us his middle name) and some bimbo.Then we're off to Guam for some travel promo stuff, and then the films over.Sure there's a couple of poorly executed fights, some running around in a hotel, a row boat/swimmer wreak, and about 350 shots of the same slow-mo shot of Max punching someone, but that's about it.Albert Pyun has made the worst movie of his sorry-ass career (I mean it, too. It's worse then those Urban Menace films)This movie had to be a scam, all the way around. Someone got some movie budget money in their pockets and now everything's in court. Can I file a lawsuit against Pyun & Co. for having had watch this thing?Don't waste a penny of your $ or a second of your time on Max Havoc- Curse of the Dragon

Max Havoc (Mickey Hardt) is an ex-kickboxer turned photographer who protects two attractive sisters from the Yakuza led by David Carradine. Seems that one of the sisters bought a jade dragon from dealer Richard Roundtree and after numerous awkward moments, Max Havoc saves the day but doesn't save the film. As far as narrative flow goes, Max Havoc:Curse Of The Dragon is possibly Pyun's most chaotic movie ever made. (And I saw Nemesis 1-3, Bloodmatch and Deceit) The problem with Max Havoc is that it only provides occasional laughter. From laughably overblown suspense sequences that involve hostage taking, getting run over by a row-boat, getting cut up in a limo and much much more. However Pyun actually makes the biggest mistake by hardly giving us any dumb moments and basically the movie is mostly dulls-ville. There is some controversy over how this movie was made, but I for one am indifferent to such matters. Sure it's not right but i'm not here to discuss politics and my neutral observations are simple; Max Havoc is a terrible movie with only a few (unintentionally) hilarious moments to keep you from shutting it off. Among the unintentionally hilarious moments is how Pyun pays direct "homage" to Cyborg (itself a masterpiece compared to this) in that Pyun shows pointless flashbacks for no other reason but to stretch out the running time. In this case we watch Max Havoc deliver a jumping punch which is then followed by David Carradine looking mean into the camera and smoking his cigarette and showing his rings. Also the ending makes no sense and the impression here is given that the movie wasn't even indeed finished. Max Havoc:Curse Of The Dragon is so incompetently edited that fight sequences are literally scrapped before the confrontation ends! Also the story is so over the map it's impossible to follow it coherently and finally the movie features acting so terrible that it sometimes borders on surreality. David Carradine and Richard Roundtree look (rightfully) embarrassed, Carmen Electra is not in it much and newcomer Mickey Hardt is so bad that he makes other Pyun leads (a list that includes Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sasha Mitchell, Michael Dudikoff,Gary Daniels, Steven Seagal and (shudder) Olivier Gruner) seem like master thespians. Seriously where did they find this guy? Still the main question is whether Max Havoc:Curse Of The Dragon works as a guilty pleasure style movie, and sadly the answer is no. There are a few laughs to be had but mainly we watch Mickey Hardt snap photos for like forty minutes before anything happens and this in itself is a tragedy because without dumb action, Max Havoc:Curse Of The Dragon is just painful to watch.Note:On the DVD there is a biography of David Carradine and Richard Roundtree however both sections neglect to mention Bound For Glory,Kill Bill Vol.1 and Shaft on the filmography for the two distinguished actors. Which only shows the ineptitude of all involved.* out of 4-(Bad)

I spoke to someone that worked on the crew that shot all the non-Guam footage which includes everything with David Carradine, Richard Roundtree and the bad guys footage. The original director, Pyun, had been gone from the film for awhile because the film was shutdown because it had run out of money. When money came in the film was taken over by a Israeli producer. This producer and a new director, also Israeli, re-shoot quite a bit of the film and did all the editing. The version that got out is their work as well as the people at Rigel Entertainment who he said were involved in shaping the final film. Word on the set was that Pyun's version was too soft and played like a Magnum PI episode instead of the hard action Jet Li film Rigel wanted. He saw some of Pyun's version and it was like a G rated tropical TV movie and had no stock footage. Nicely pretty and light. He was a little shocked at the final result from the re-shoots and final editing. He thought it looked like the producer couldn't figure out what he wanted to do. Just thought you viewers might want to know. I usually like seeing director's cuts on DVD. Maybe they will come out with Pyun's. Sounds like there are truly different films.