Paradise Beach

Paradise Beach had the potential to be decent gangster fun in an attractive Thai location with wide-angle turquoise waters. I was looking forward to watching the second half on a big projection screen instead of on my iPad at the gym. And then it turned out to be such stupidly dull bullshit with characters that are even less likable than they appeared to be at the beginning. There is nothing good about the screenplay or the directing. (01/22/2020)

Slowly but surely, I’m getting used to Sami Bouajila, to whom Netflix gives quite a bit of space and who has charisma in spades. However, he’s still not very good with working with the audience’s emotions, so once again it is a piece that could be interesting, if you didn’t get annoyed with all the characters in the film, whose authority was also undermined by the wannabe gangsta music in the background. (05/05/2020)