CAYMAN ISLANDS IN BLOOM.

Byline: - Bob Strauss

Young Cayman Islands filmmaker Frank E. Flowers shot his feature debut, ``Haven,'' in an economical 29 days. What's even more impressive about that is that he essentially shot two movies at the same time.

This doesn't make for a very good final product. But what the heck? Demonstrates organization, at least.

Too bad Flowers couldn't have put the two stories he's telling together as well as he did the shooting schedule. ``Haven'' opens with Orlando Bloom's Shy and Zoe Saldana's Andrea having some kind of illicit, yet definitely chaste makeout session in a picturesque Caribbean cove.

The next thing we know, crooked Miami businessman Carl Ridley (Bill Paxton) is dragging his resentful teenage daughter Pippa (Agnes Bruckner) down to Grand Cayman one step ahead of the feds. He's got a girdle full of cash under his aloha shirt and a shady English investment guy (Stephen Dillane) to track down.

Almost instantly, Pippa hooks up with local scam artist Fritz (Victor Rasuk). He takes her to a party at some rich kid's house, where their paths briefly cross Shy's and Andrea's. But it's still another half-hour or so before we get away from Pippa, Carl and Fritz and back to what Shy and Andrea are all about.

What a relatively big name like Orlando Bloom is doing in this otherwise very indie effort becomes clear when the pretty ``Pirates'' boy gets to go all glum and play against his

dreamboat image and puke in public. But that isn't very interesting either.

HAVEN - Two and one half

(R: violence, drug use, sex, language)

Starring: Orlando Bloom, Agnes Bruckner, Zoe Saldana, Victor Rasuk, Stephen Dillane, Bill Paxton, Anthony Mackie, Joy Bryant.

Director: Frank E. Flowers.

Running time: 1 hr. 38 min.

Playing: Loews Universal City 18, Universal City; Burbank 16, Burbank; Laemmle Playhouse 7, Pasadena; Mann Grauman's Chinese, Hollywood; AMC Block 30, Orange.

In a nutshell: Two tales of crime, drugs and young people in trouble awkwardly intertwined in the Caymans.