The con artist that was knocked out with a drink by the woman who was a friend of the woman who inherited millions was seen long enough by him that he would have easily recognized her so he wouldn't have fallen for her trap! RIDICULOUS! Also stupid: are we led to believe this con artist had ALL the money he stole from EVERY WOMAN??? He most likely would have spent a lot of it. Is he on food stamps???? WELFARE? And, when he was tied up on a chair, he grabbed the woman and then broke away from him. At that point, her friend shot and killed him. She had no right killing him. After she broke away, he was unarmed and tied up; helpless! She and her friend would both lose in a court of law and found guilty of murder! Stupid movie!
12 Reviews
Great locations ... terrible acting and script
Design889 February 2023
The opening is a good indication of how bad this TV movie is going to be.
The casting is awful. I think the lead actress may have paid to be in because she is such an inappropriate choice. She and her two friends act like silly teenagers and the bad boy "love interest" Dario, looks old enough to be her father. She is a completely plain, girl next door type and has an awkward body so the fact he chose her out of the other two is suspicious from the start.
This script and acting are very poor and glaring continuity mistakes are ignored. When the girls are frolicking on their private beach and we see Dario staring at them through 'zoom lens' (?) binoculars from a boat in a dock with trees behind him but there is only open sea when they look out from the beach at him. Plus the angles are all wrong. Another day he crosses the water towards them in a motorized dingy but in their POV there's no yacht in sight behind him. Perhaps it was still at the mysterious marina!
The script just gets more and more implausible. The characters have no chemistry with each other. Not even the girlfriends. The end is not worth commenting on. So ridiculous.
I give it 3 stars because of the lovely locations.
The casting is awful. I think the lead actress may have paid to be in because she is such an inappropriate choice. She and her two friends act like silly teenagers and the bad boy "love interest" Dario, looks old enough to be her father. She is a completely plain, girl next door type and has an awkward body so the fact he chose her out of the other two is suspicious from the start.
This script and acting are very poor and glaring continuity mistakes are ignored. When the girls are frolicking on their private beach and we see Dario staring at them through 'zoom lens' (?) binoculars from a boat in a dock with trees behind him but there is only open sea when they look out from the beach at him. Plus the angles are all wrong. Another day he crosses the water towards them in a motorized dingy but in their POV there's no yacht in sight behind him. Perhaps it was still at the mysterious marina!
The script just gets more and more implausible. The characters have no chemistry with each other. Not even the girlfriends. The end is not worth commenting on. So ridiculous.
I give it 3 stars because of the lovely locations.
Watchable with good moments
chelleryn1 February 2022
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I have very low standards when it comes to made for TV films. I just let them wash over me. I watched this film quite happily without too many annoyances. There was a brilliant acting moment when the heroine is told her friend has been hurt. Her distress looked really real. Same when she gives her friend the cheque to pay off her mortgage. Her friend acted really well in that scene. The turnabout in the heroines response from 'I don't want anything from my dead dad" to laughing hysterically and happily signing whe she finds out just how much her dad left her, was a good moment too. So not the best made for TV film I've seen but far from the worst.
stupid paradise!!! or Dark Stupidity!!!
doycesub19 February 2017
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The last 30 minutes of this movie is really dumb!!!! Law enforcement is left completely out of the finding of the villain!!! I thought it was fine until the main character loses all her money to the person she met in Hawaii and doesn't bother to report it to the law enforcement in Hawaii but "looks" for the man that took the money at the Coast Guard office. It just got worse as the ending approached. I found myself wishing and hoping for the ending to finally appear!! I had DVR'ed the stupid thing and was tempted to fast forward on several occasions. If you have nothing else to do watch this stinker!!!
Where did the cat go?
P3n-E-W1s310 January 2018
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 who's 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 venemous 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's 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 in 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 is 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 to give the audience the effect of 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 it's best advantage. This is such a waste of a story - even though it's not a particularly good one.
From here on in it gets worse, much worse. There's nothing worthy in 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 is 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 to give the audience the effect of 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 it's best advantage. This is such a waste of a story - even though it's not a particularly good one.
Dire
Blithe_Spirit9 January 2019
I wonder how many millions of dollars have been spent on appalling made for TV movies such as this one. The performances by the actors, if you can actually call them as such, was as bad as it gets and the script warrants a zero. That's an hour or so I'll never get back and to those considering watching this drivel I have one word, "DON'T"
Silly But Watchable !
carolynocean13 April 2021
Actually , the main reason I stayed with this movie was because of the georgous Antonio Sabato !!! Plus the location was pretty nice also .
And I am sure, that for the male viewers , it was pretty entertaining also because of the three bikini prancing women , who , for the most part acted like teenage schoolgirls !!!!
Look, the plot was ridiculous , the acting very suspect , and the script ? .... hilarious !
But , having said all that , I kind of enjoyed it , probably because it was so silly , and of course because I could watch the lovely Antonio !!!
And I am sure, that for the male viewers , it was pretty entertaining also because of the three bikini prancing women , who , for the most part acted like teenage schoolgirls !!!!
Look, the plot was ridiculous , the acting very suspect , and the script ? .... hilarious !
But , having said all that , I kind of enjoyed it , probably because it was so silly , and of course because I could watch the lovely Antonio !!!
God awful, painful to watch
chatespartero1 July 2019
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Poor acting, terrible casting from start to finish "Young woman" inherits.. blah blah. Not really a young woman. I was expecting prolly the acting would get better in the middle, but nah. Complete disaster. Off to the bin.
Pathetic plot!
haroot_azarian24 September 2021
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OK so I need to move to Hawaii and find me a boat, and a Tamara/Boti Bliss and two clueless friends, bed her a few times with continuous wooing in thick fake Italian accent, and take her to the cleaners, and hey presto Bob's my uncle! One of the stupidest LMN movies I have yet seen.
Not a masterpiece but far from terrible
marccherry-1586615 November 2020
Implausible at times yet entertaining with unexpected twists. A film should entertain this does & more so than overrated films such as Gosford Park (load about nowt) & Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (plenty of image but no plot). I didn't expect a masterpiece & it wasn't but hey I've seen much worse films than this
***1/2
edwagreen9 November 2016
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Unlucky in love with men in her life, father abandoned her and her mother when she was 9, this young lady soon discovers that her long alienated father has died and left her $8.3 million.
She takes her friends to a remote island in beautiful Hawaii and soon finds romance. However, she gradually learns that her Italian Romeo isn't the man he really is and she later finds that she has been set up by the guy who had shared a jail area with her late father.
Of course, along the way, her friend is beaten by this fiend when she discovers him stealing from the rich girl's room and is left comatose.
The remaining friend teams up with her and the two extract bitter revenge in the end against this Lothario.
Dario, the supposed Italian gigolo who is really Brazilian is really quite good with his variety of accents. He has stolen plenty from the vulnerable young heiress.
She takes her friends to a remote island in beautiful Hawaii and soon finds romance. However, she gradually learns that her Italian Romeo isn't the man he really is and she later finds that she has been set up by the guy who had shared a jail area with her late father.
Of course, along the way, her friend is beaten by this fiend when she discovers him stealing from the rich girl's room and is left comatose.
The remaining friend teams up with her and the two extract bitter revenge in the end against this Lothario.
Dario, the supposed Italian gigolo who is really Brazilian is really quite good with his variety of accents. He has stolen plenty from the vulnerable young heiress.
Welcome to Fantasy Island!!!
lavatch6 June 2021
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Three amigos, Tamara, Sherry, and Dena, are united in spirit to the degree that "Remote Paradise" turns into a lengthy episode of "Charlie's Angels."
One of our favorite actresses, Boti "Lifetime" Bliss plays the role of Miss Tamara Sharp, whose father has left her an inheritance of $8.3 million. Tamara splurges on a vacation to Hawaii, bringing along her two besties, Sherry and Dena.
Immediately, Tamara falls head over heels for the oily charm of Dario Pizzini, a con artist, hustler, and murderer, who has his sights set on robbing the gullible Tamara of her fortune. She never could have guessed that the "Italian Stallion" Dario is in fact the Brazilian gigolo Federico Candido with a long rap sheet as a swindler and killer. Now, she is infatuated due to Dario's love clichés, as when he compares Tamara to her two besties: "They are girls, but you are a woman!" As Dario oozes the charm, Tamara is unaware that he is a liar and a fraud.
In one of the most telling moments of the film, Dario/Mario is caught in a moment of candor when he tells Tamara on his beautiful (rented) yacht that "people come here for the fantasy." It is a wake-up call to Tamara when her dear friend Dena is nearly beaten to death and falls into a coma courtesy of Dario.
The "revenge" plot kicks in when Tamara's bank accounts are cleaned out and Dena awakens from her deep sleep to inform her that Dario nearly murdered her. Tamara and Sherry then track Dario to Los Angeles where the final reckoning occurs in the mansion purchased with Tamara's money. Tamara has awakened from Fantasy Island to the reality of being duped. Her saving grace was that she never used the "L" word to the charlatan Dario.
One of our favorite actresses, Boti "Lifetime" Bliss plays the role of Miss Tamara Sharp, whose father has left her an inheritance of $8.3 million. Tamara splurges on a vacation to Hawaii, bringing along her two besties, Sherry and Dena.
Immediately, Tamara falls head over heels for the oily charm of Dario Pizzini, a con artist, hustler, and murderer, who has his sights set on robbing the gullible Tamara of her fortune. She never could have guessed that the "Italian Stallion" Dario is in fact the Brazilian gigolo Federico Candido with a long rap sheet as a swindler and killer. Now, she is infatuated due to Dario's love clichés, as when he compares Tamara to her two besties: "They are girls, but you are a woman!" As Dario oozes the charm, Tamara is unaware that he is a liar and a fraud.
In one of the most telling moments of the film, Dario/Mario is caught in a moment of candor when he tells Tamara on his beautiful (rented) yacht that "people come here for the fantasy." It is a wake-up call to Tamara when her dear friend Dena is nearly beaten to death and falls into a coma courtesy of Dario.
The "revenge" plot kicks in when Tamara's bank accounts are cleaned out and Dena awakens from her deep sleep to inform her that Dario nearly murdered her. Tamara and Sherry then track Dario to Los Angeles where the final reckoning occurs in the mansion purchased with Tamara's money. Tamara has awakened from Fantasy Island to the reality of being duped. Her saving grace was that she never used the "L" word to the charlatan Dario.
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