Aloha Heart

Taylor Coles Acting in this movie -excellent!

Kanoa Goo good performance.

Scenery of Hawaii- beautiful.

The pairing of the leads, not believable.

The story? It did not even come close to piecing together in a way that made real sense. You need to review the movie before you publish it. Honest, unbiased reviewers would tell you the movie is lacking. This review is asking for 600 words, but sometimes less is more, and often extra words are just wasted time and effort. So I apologize in advance for the following wasted words" El gato es! El gato es efuego!" El gato es enfuego! El gato es enfuego!

This new Hallmark production offers a beautiful actress, Taylor Cole, playing Sara, a conservationist hell-bent to save the world, who finds romance in a tropical paradise. So, what could go wrong? One gets the first hint at the beginning, when Sara first reaches her luscious resort destination and is kindly welcomed by the handsome manager with a lei of flowers. In a thoughtful display of good manners, her first words are to inquire what kind of recycling they have in place. Soon after, when Manu, the manager, offers to take her outside the resort to find a venue for her friend's wedding rehearsal, she thanks him complaining that the vehicle uses a lot of gas, further wondering if they own a large fleet. The movie does not specify whether Sara, to avoid using fuel, has reached the Hawaii by windsurf or swimming through the ocean. Unfortunately, these are most of the spice in the entire film, if one excludes the overplayed conflict between Manu and his overbearing, unpleasant parents. The rest of the story has no drama, very lukewarm romantic or emotional content, and questionable chemistry between the lead characters. Essentially, it feels that somebody at Hallmark has decided that an inane script of overused banalities can be salvaged by a superficial "save the planet" message and the background of a tropical island.

The players have been miscast. Kanoa Goo appears, and likely is, much younger than Taylor Cole. The rest are unimportant, as all play roles with no substance or depth. By age and personality, Greta Thunberg would have made a better match for the main role. As a peeve of my own, I regret that Taylor Cole, whom I have always liked, seems to get less significant roles each year that goes by. I may be wrong, yet I feel she could manage more mature and deep characters and a chance to work in more intelligent productions.

Next time Hallmark plans another such exotic adventure, they should devote more space to views of the nature. At least, when the viewers get bored and fall asleep, they may be lulled by tropical dreams.

The movie has so much potential with the magnificent scenery and the backdrop of a wedding on the horizon, but the main actress was so annoying it got in the way of the movie taking on a more romantic special feel. It would have been better if they fell in love scene by scene as opposed to her pricking at the actor every 3 minutes for most of the movie. WOW, this was an annoying movie. It was hard to watch and certainly re-watch. Is this a Hallmark movie plot recipe where the woman nags the guy until they magically fall in love? How unrealistic. If this wasn't filmed in Hawaii, I'd probably drop the movie rating to 3 stars.

This could have been a much better movie, but what was the casting department thinking? Taylor is turning 40 and I saw Kanoa recently in a show playing a teenager. I am all for older ladies finding love with younger men but I don't think that was Hallmark's intention. Perhaps they think we won't notice. This was also done in Love in Zion and again, it spoiled the movie. The setting here was lovely, and some environmental concerns were included in the story, but the movie just did not work with this pairing. Taylor deserves better. She is a popular female lead and always good in her roles. I wish they had made more of the Ruby Herring series. Those were great and Taylor was paired with the very handsome (and age appropriate) Steven Huszar. Their connection and chemistry was obvious in that series, but not evident at all in this movie. And Kanoa will be a great addition to the younger male leads but let's pair him with a believable partner. This won't be on my "watch again" list.

Hawaii is definitely the star of Aloha Heart.

Hallmark knows how to sell destination movies even with the weakest storylines-sad to say, this one's pretty weak. Watching it now and I swear they stole the Hawaii wedding plot line from Hallmark's Hidden Gem movie-also filmed in Hawaii. At least the lead actors were around the same age and had great chemistry.

Not the case here. Taylor Cole is a wonderful actor but too mature for the male lead of this movie even with the long hair extensions.

Hallmark has a problem with their popular leading ladies-they're all hitting forty and over and can't sell being the young professional -fill in the blank-trying to get that big promotion. When they do that they end up doing what Taylor Cole is doing in this movie-trying to act younger than she is.

And Hallmark needs to sign Kanou Goo. He's a keeper.