Name: Dark Paradise
Genre: Thriller
Released: 2016-10-30
Duration: 1 h 29 min
Rating: 4.3
Cast: Boti Bliss, Antonio Sabato Jr., Ion Overman

Great locations ... terrible acting and script

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 thriller genre features suspense, tension, and excitement. These stories are known for keeping audiences on the edge of their seats and delivering intense emotional experiences by revolving around high-stakes situations, dangerous conflicts, and the constant anticipation of unexpected events.

A female business woman gets in over her head after inheriting some money and encountering a dangerous bad boy in Hawaii.

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