brucembrent

It could have been a good movie. The executive producer must have wanted a tropical vacation really bad. This production's cost was, at least, twice as much as it would have been if shot on the mainland. The casting director should never work in Hollywood again. The worst of the casting was the black detective. He looked and acted like a robot reading from cue cards. The detective sister was also poorly cast as well. The restaurant where Connie works, was the best of the locations. I've eaten there many times. It is NOT a hotel bar/restaurant, but the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor's restaurant. The other locations shot did NOT give Hawaii's beauty a chance. Overhead and distance shots were plenty, but no real beautiful ground shots of the flora and fauna.

Holes in the plots were many. First, the phone calls where there's only breathing. The detective sister could have pinged or looked up the number to find the ower/location. The trashed hotel room: the hotel's surveillance cameras could have captured who came and went from that trashed room. These and more inaccuracies helped to ruin the movie.