Movie Review - Deadly Paradise

Deadly Paradise

AKA Dark Paradise

AKA Remote Paradise

2016

The Cast

  

Badly scripted lines delivered badly and captured badly on film... This is a bad film. What's your price to sell off your morals and beliefs? For Tamara, played by Boti Bliss, it's 8.3 million dollars. Right from the start, this story starts hitting the cliche list. Tamara is a woman whose life was ruined by her father. What did her father do to ruin her life, you ask? He walked out on her and her mom... and being the weak women that they were they let this incident affect their entire lives forward - this is "cliche three" ("cliche one" is the bad boyfriend we see before this incident and "cliche two" is the cat she owns because she's a sad and lonely woman (and we never see the poor old puddywack again)). She tells the estate lawyer that she wants absolutely nothing to do with her absentee father or anything he may have left her, she is venomous to the extreme about this - "cliche four". Then the lawyer tells her it's 8.3 million and boy you can see that she climaxes in her pants on the spot - "cliche five". And of course there are no thoughts about not excepting her Daddy's generous gift - "cliche six"... and we're only ten minutes into the story.

From here on in it gets worse, much worse. There's nothing worthy within this story or film to save it and make it worth a viewing - I wasted an hour and a half so you don't need to. I mean, even the direction is so bad that the continuity errors actually scream at you. There are a couple of times when Tamara waves from the front of the villa at Dario (Sabato Jr) on his yacht. In front of the villa are nothing but open sea and a couple of distant islands - though when we see Dario wave back he's in a harbour with trees behind him. If he's in a harbour on one of the distant islands then Tamara has better eyesight than an eagle or a hawk. There's even a wonderful binocular scene where the image actually gets closer. Binoculars are fixed and do not zoom. Then there's a wonderful scene where the director uses a fisheye lens which has the effect of giving the audience actual seasickness.

Though the worst thing is towards to the end of the film when we get the reveal. This is so unrealistic and implausible to be completely stupid. 

Even though there's a lot going on in the film nothing is properly explored or utilised to its best advantage. This is such a waste of a story - even though it's not a particularly good one.

Just for the dearly departed pussycat, I give this a badly constructed 1.75 out of 10.

The Trailer