The Maltese Holiday

I am Maltese but I doubt the main actors were really in Malta. The accent of the presumably Maltese actors is atrocious. It seems arabic but it is good to know that we Maltese people have a good English accent. The amazing panoramic views are definitely Maltese. Also, during the Christmas holidays it is quite cold but ironically the main actress had a dip in the pool and most of the actors wore short-sleeved clothes. I believe that more research about the Maltese culture should have been done before the movie was made. I enjoyed it solely because I am Maltese.

Even travelling from New York $15000 is at least 5 times too much for a hiliday in Malta. Landing looked like UK, airport looked american. A few scenes were filmed in Malta but the majority including hotel interior and vineyard were in NY with backgoround nothing like Malta or indeed Xmas time as too many leaves on the trees. Obvious to anyone who knows and loves Malta, very disappointed with the lack of local scenes. Having the actors travel to Malta and having a unit based there with a very productive film studio, why were the Maltese scenes not all filmed there. Some great aerial shots. Gives a very distorted picture of Malta and its people.

This was NOT filmed in Malta at all.

Airport was not Luqa airport Actors were not Maltese Hotel were not in Malta

Some overhead footage was of the Maltese islands yes

Terrible movie What a shame it was misleading to viewers.

The fact that this movie was made is suspect. It stinks of being a tax write-off or an 80 minute paid ad to go visit the Maltese islands. Except that the movie essentially consists of interior shots of a NYC hotel, generic drone clips of the Maltese coast with sputterings of stock footage- at one point we see stock footage of a French airport (???). No idea what the point of basing the plot in Malta was, probably just sponsored as an ad, except that if I were a tourist I'd be put off visiting this place. It's cynical, lazy, cringe worthy and an insult to anyone who watches it. Also, the Maltese people are not Maltese. Talk about cultural appropriation. Il-Milied it-tajjeb.

Is this an entry to a film festival or something? Perhaps a student study to get into film school, a final project? It's terrible.

The acting overall is, ummm well, it's obvious acting, and at times you feel like they are "reading" their scripts. You are not immersed or invested in the story because of the bad acting. There is the 32 minutes of monotony before they even conversed cordially with each other, and then more boring downtime. Then, there's the 8 minutes of non-dialog music video telling the story before going back to BAD acting! In the beginning it feels like this really for the Tic toc crowd, but then it also seems too boring at times to keep their attention span. The beginning credits start like a Beat Saber or Guitar Hero though so you expect it to stay active, ha! NOT!

Overall it's HORRIBLE and a chore to finish! Well, maybe if you're the 15 year-old-crowd and watch every "influencer" maybe then you'll love it. But OMG! How do these people think everything they do is sooooo important they have to be rude to other humans and record every stupid little thing in their life? Oh, look now I'm in the bathroom, now I'm drinking, I'm sitting on a plane, now I'm still on the plane... How can you think you're the center of the world that your every breath needs to be published for the world to watch? And he's so miserable and crotchety in general, and to another person all because he miserable about his life circumstances and his opinion of the woman who he feels put him in this position of being alone at the holiday. He should never have gone in the first place. If he really had all those issues, he shouldn't have been so easily talked into going. This would have been better if he wanted to go, he could still be standoffish for her stupid influencer junk and it would still have succeeded in the same outcome. The whole thing is annoying and not fun watch at all! I watch movies to escape reality not be beat over the head with it multiple times! Bleh!

I mean she was Miss bubbly personality, but equally as clueless about proper conduct. He's Mr. Life sucks take it out on anyone in his path. This should make for a fun meet up when you break through all that, right! Ummm... nope, it takes too long to get there, and it's not worth the effort to do so, not to mention it's magically from hate to love in an instant. I wouldn't want miss yappy sitting next to me on the plane while I was trying to sleep. And I would think Mr. Grumpy about everything didn't need me to keep trying to "cheer him up". Beyond the whole ridiculous tic toc or Instagram posts it was also "B" boring with capitol B, slow, predictable, and just generally a waste of time to watch. There are so many other cute meet-up stories this one just doesn't do anything for me...yeah, most are predictable, but less annoying than this!!! Her stupidity gets worse, way to kill yourself with ignorance of only worrying about a picture. Stop being in front of camera and start paying attention to the world around you. The dialog is terrible. Can I use enough adjectives to describe the terribleness of this movie, LOL! As annoying as my review is, the movie is worse!

I have no idea why Amazon recommended this to me, but to give a fair review I watched the whole terrible thing. Yeah, next time, I'm hitting fast forward for a Amazon recommendation that starts off this bad, because you know what, it doesn't get better no matter how many minutes more you watch! I wish it was like YouTube and you could speed it up and hear it in fast mode! LOL!