The main plot of "Haven" has a lot of things going for it. An involving plot, genuine dialogue, interesting characters, and great performances, especially by Bloom, who delivers the performance of his career so far. Flowers does a fantastic job overlaying this onto a beautiful portrait of his native Cayman Islands. The major flaw is his attempt to combine this with a subplot that doesn't measure up. Paxton is mediocre, and his part of the story lacks any appeal save for Fritz, who could easily have been used as part of the main storyline. The combination of the two plots seems completely forced, they only overlap with a few minor roles and scenes that have little impact on either. This causes the staggered timeline to be superfluous, and the conclusion fails to bring them together, leaving you wondering why he bothered with this device at all. Overall entertaining and worth watching, it could have been much better had the subplot been done away with, or maybe had it been fleshed out and made to connect to the real story in a meaningful way.
