Escaping Paradise

Great movie! I nice surprise. I watched this basic adventure movie thinking it would be a just average. WOW I was wrong! It was so much more. A nice hardworking couple Floyd and Zena go to a tropical island for their 5- year anniversary. They arrive and a man named " Kane" gets them to travel around with him. Floyd gets uncomfortable when at a strip club, Kane beats up a girl. Floyd leaves and next day the news reports her murder. Floyd n Zena decide to leave right away. They stop at " police station" to report this. But police are paid by Kane. Their hotel room is picked over. All as passports are gone! Next Floyd confronts Kane! Bad news! Zena gets kidnapped and Floyd gets help from nice locals to get her back and revenge for Flowers' murder! The ending is great! Film is fantastic! Great little adventure!

Great action and a delightful revenge.

The movie made good use of cool action and tense stories, and even portrayed a thrilling revenge play.

The movie starts with a couple's first overseas trip and captures the wonderful natural scenery of Cebu. This gives visual pleasure to those who have lived their lives trapped by Corona.

And you meet someone who is in the daytime... It's a kind but somewhat reluctant man. He is friendly to the couple and claims to be a travel friend, but is infinitely violent to the natives of Cebu, that is, those who don't have money.

(As expected, people need to check their attitude toward the weak.)

In the first half of the movie, the couple only doubts about the kind but reluctant man, but in the second half, they find out for sure that he is a bad guy, and they are chased for justice without turning a blind eye to their mistakes.

Happiness changes in an instant from a dream travel destination to a place where you have to escape alive, which adds to the fun of the movie.

Oh look, another new film with supicious amounts of 10-star reviews, left by names ending in five digits who only have one or two conveniently praising reviews.

These people are clearly paid by distributors/producers to praise the film. Which is basically CONNING you into wasting your time. The film is so obscure it doesn't even have a review on letterboxd yet - do you really think all these people legitimately saw it, and decided to create new accounts to gush about it? I very much doubt it.

Don't fall for shill reviews! Don't fall for shill reviews! Don't fall for shill reviews! Don't fall for shill reviews!

Don't get tricked by the clearly bogus high reviews. It goes to show you how little faith the filmmakers have in their own production to resort to such blatant tactics to try and deceive their potential audience. This was so bad, if there was a listing for C-films, this would still be at the bottom of the list. The bogus high reviews are way more entertaining than this wannabe action thriller.

It's shocking this mess was directed by someone who apparently has 24 previous directorial credits. Director Paul Tanter couldn't even direct his cast properly. Then you have Deji LaRay as Floyd, who cast himself as the lead, produced and wrote this nonsense, that was riddled with plot and technical issues. A few examples: His wife gets kidnapped, but he sits down for a nice dinner laughing and eating with all these people, THEN finally gets his bullet-hole wound simply bandaged over after he's done chatting and eating. The next day, he uses a long very noticeable orange canoe and apparently sneaks onto a small touring boat in broad daylight and no one sees him approaching or boarding the boat. Seriously? The lack of common sense and realism in this film is astounding.

There is absolutely nothing redeemable about this sloppy nonsense. The directing was terrible and lacked any urgency. Even at a mere 90 mins runtime, with the slow pacing and long dragged out and mostly unnecessary scenes, this felt like a never ending nightmare. The writing was cliched and generic, with a story that's been done thousands of times before, and every one of them done much better than this. A fifth grade drama class can write, direct and produce a better school play.

LaRay cast himself as some tough-guy soldier, yet had zero combat skills or tactics, and couldn't even hold or use a gun properly. The action and fight scenes are hilariously bad. Clearly this film was a failed attempt at a vanity project for LaRay trying to make himself look like some action hero. His acting was laughably bad and unconvincing, as was everyone else's - only partial blame can go to bad cast direction. Only Simon Phillips was anywhere close to any sort of convincing character. Listed as an action thriller, there's zero thrills and any action is hilariously bad, so this nonsense should've been listed as a comedy.

I've reviewed over 1,700 films and rated over 3,000, and this mess is on my top ten worst films of all time. I hope it gets nominated for a Razzie award, it certainly qualifies.

From the beautiful well crafted opening with an witty comedy to the story and the characters themselves - not to mention the out of this world aesthetic to the genre - Escaping Paradise is set to become something we didn't know that action could be. We're only these episodes in and this movie continues to stun me. Brace yourselves, you're in for a hell of a ride. This is top of the tops, crime to crime entertainment.

I'm speaking as someone who's never watched this kind of action in island and as this is how I went about every title I've ever watched.

I'm hyping the hell out of this movie because that's the impression it left on me. And hey, I've just come out of rewatching all of escaping island movie in anticipation of next, and somehow Escaping Paradise is able to entice my heart with even more emotion

We should all just be glad that we can sit down and revel on these title's as we're currently living in the golden age of action movie.