Escaping Paradise

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.

This movie is reaaally good to see with friends.

I like how they added some comedy factors here and there. Anyway this movie is entertaining and kinda prdictable. But l love it. Personally, l love the starting scenes where guys are playing the basket ball game. THAT was absolutley LA vibe.

The action is quite thrilling and the background, Sebu is exotic place. That makes the action more charming. Never been to Sebu before so it was more exotic to me. And as far as l know, there are not quite a lot of U. S movies dealing with crime and Sebu.

What the most interesting was the britsh guy. His action was great and that character looks likes so bastard.

One couple decided to go to the abroad to memorate their marriage anniversaryn and it turns out they are involved in some crimes.

Technically, they are just tracking of the one criminal there.

Overall, this movie deals with crime and action. And some romance...? These are typically facotrs as you know but this is not like this movie is typically.

Instead, l would say this is somewhat fun and good. L enjoyed especillay how they used the shooting spots and described the bad guy.

BTW, who was that bad british guy? His acting was super impressive. L guess l should check his name to remember him.

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!

Set in Cebu, an exotic island, it is an action thriller that changes at once into a thriller where you have to risk your life to escape from a sweet couple destination.

What would you do if you found out about someone's crime? Of course, we should be able to find out the crime. But what if it threatens me and my family? Also, what if something that happened in the daytime and went back home after leaving the travel destination has nothing to do with me? So we're gonna find out about the crime?

The movie features an ordinary but just couple. He dreams of a pleasant and happy trip, but he accidentally finds out about the crime and tries to reveal the truth, but his life is threatened by it.