7.6 stars.
What I like about 'Love in Paradise' is the diverse cast, not the usual Hallmark regulars, and I feel it's because they wanted something special. The plot is nothing new, but the way it's filmed, the variety of music, the scenery and acting style it's not like the usual generics.
The dialogue is off the beaten path from the familiar lines, the actors are more down to earth, more genuine somehow. We are not dealing with the fake sets, and exaggerated baubles and lighting, and the perfect angles for the perfect kisses and all that repetitive stuff. This is a great change of pace from the norms. It felt like a whole new genre.
'Love in Paradise' is about an actor whose career is on the decline, and on a ranch he discovers his best self with a lot of help from a woman with a tough exterior and a tender heart. She is not hard on the eyes, but she's soft on the inside. Luke Perry has a really good performance outside the usual brooding and artificial, and more toward the flawed and visceral. This was a rarely witnessed side of him, a better side. I'm sad he's no longer with us.
What I like about 'Love in Paradise' is the diverse cast, not the usual Hallmark regulars, and I feel it's because they wanted something special. The plot is nothing new, but the way it's filmed, the variety of music, the scenery and acting style it's not like the usual generics.
The dialogue is off the beaten path from the familiar lines, the actors are more down to earth, more genuine somehow. We are not dealing with the fake sets, and exaggerated baubles and lighting, and the perfect angles for the perfect kisses and all that repetitive stuff. This is a great change of pace from the norms. It felt like a whole new genre.
'Love in Paradise' is about an actor whose career is on the decline, and on a ranch he discovers his best self with a lot of help from a woman with a tough exterior and a tender heart. She is not hard on the eyes, but she's soft on the inside. Luke Perry has a really good performance outside the usual brooding and artificial, and more toward the flawed and visceral. This was a rarely witnessed side of him, a better side. I'm sad he's no longer with us.