Aloha Heart

Sara Hamilton (Taylor Cole) is a workaholic water quality ecologist without a personal life. She reluctantly goes to Hawaii to be her friend's maid of honor. Manu (Kanoa Goo) is the new manager of his family's smaller hotel resort. She needs help with the incomplete wedding plans and the hotel needs work.

Hawaii always looks beautiful especially from a resort beach. It's great that she's concerned about water. Hawaii has water concerns despite its lush tropics popular image.

My biggest problem is that she complains a lot about random stuff. Why the keys? Maybe she can explain better or just forget about the keys. She needs to concentrate on the wedding and the water issue and nothing else. She should keep all the little comments to herself and not in the movie. Anyways, most people aren't watching Hallmark for that.

I don't get the mechanics of the pool. He actually drops the ball for no apparent reason. Is the ecologist really going to fix the pool? Just let the guy fix the pool.

He's going way too hard on 'family'. What are we? Fast and the Furious? If he wants to save the resort and the island, I actually want to know his concrete plans and stop with the keys. It feels like Hallmark is trying something, but it is still Hallmark and they can't do more with the writing.

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.

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!

Hallmark movies are never exciting. I get that. I know what I signed up for with this movie, but this one was especially dull. The friend's wedding sequence was way too long. It was a big "Who cares?" moment. The rest of the movie didn't have much happen either. What should they have done instead? How about showing us how this lead couple falls for each other? That would have been so much more interesting. A couple looks here and there isn't enough.

The lead characters seemed like a ridiculous match, and not just because of the obvious age gap. I can accept age gaps as a thing that happens. What doesn't happen, though, is someone on vacation from the mainland US trying to date someone from Hawaii. Get real! In the real world, this would end up being a fling at best.

Yes, the scenery was excellent, but that's not enough to carry a movie. Realistic situations and better writing is what is needed. This movie looks like they spent about 3 days making it, and it just wasn't good enough.

This really should be the perfect combination... Beautiful scenery, handsome guy...pretty girl..the usual silly parents..seems like kind of a 'no brainer'. Except that the writers decided to make the leading lady as neurotic, rude, entitled and unlikable as possible. I can't help but wonder why? I think it is great that she is quite obviously much older than her leading man. Only a young and very inexperienced person would not recognise that there is a good reason why this one is still on the shelf! Sad, because he is so cute, and the whole time you are thinking...'dude you need to walk away!!'