Movie review: Private Tropical 19 "Deadly Love in Paradise" (2005) (Sunny Day, Laura Prion, Jane Cruising, Belicia Steer)

 

A very brief panoramic view of a subtly colonial enclave places us directly in the paradisiacal destination. In a matter of seconds, we will be immersed in a matrimonial argument full of long faces and rudeness. There are many open wounds in the couple we see on screen, and their stormy relationship will be the common thread throughout the film.
Private Tropical 19 Deadly love in paradise trailer

Movie Deadly Love in Paradise on Youtube

Houses of Django unchained

The houses in which the confrontation takes place near the Pierre & Vacances Village Club Sainte-Anne that also appeats in the movie, located in the eastern part of the island of Guadeloupe.

Info in Google Maps

Their website nowadays

After this beginning in which we have located ourselves from the geographical point of view, we are going to meet Jack and Deb, who are really pissed off by some matter that for the moment has not been revealed to us.

Serious than at a homeowners meeting

Bing aerial view in this coordinates at Google Maps

Apparently they have been married for five years and Deb has requested a divorce imperatively and without the option of negotiation. What Jack takes worse is that now she does not even follow the thread of the conversation, being cold and distant.

His future children would have been very blond

After ending the monologue, Jack says goodbye and goes to the office. Then Deb picks up the mobile phone and tries to contact without success to someone who does not transcend the viewer. In the next scene we contemplate a loving moment between strangers and it is so common to begin to connect the storys in our mind. We won't reveal anything more about that scene in between for now. Deadly love in paradise begins with a lot of intensity and plot muscle.

"Troop leader calling raven"

After the scene mentioned in the previous paragraph, we change planes and a tour guide appears leading two young women through the depths of the jungle. Drive a mythical Land Rover Defender with the classic design of the eighties.

¡Watch the birdy!

The Defender opens the waters of the Red Sea

Michel, the tour guide, wants to take them to an unknown corner of the island to see if he can unleash their charms. It has a school, a trade and a good tool, so it is sure to achieve its purpose.

Indiana "balls"

When they are visiting a suspension bridge made of wooden planks, Michel receives a call and has to pause his lightning strategy to attend to business. It is about Jack, who calls to him from a terrace on the white sands of the Beach of Sainte Anne, while it has a pilsen beer.

Jack, the cooler

Too professionals even today

Michel, far from being dazed, focuses his attention on the conversation with Jack and assures him that that same night they are going to meet the right person for the job he is doing. They meet at the Carib Bar, one of the most traditional clubs in the French Antilles.

So... go on

The explorer trio continues trekking through the Caribbean jungle until they come across the dazzling waterfall Le saut du bras du fort, which awaits them at a low flow, in total solitude.

The waterfall Le saut du bras du fort, in the movie

Nowadays in google maps

We need a break, take off your linen shirt, Nathan Drake

Bewitched by the honeyed sound of the waterfall, the two tourists approach Michel and ask for his help to make their Caribbean vacation even more memorable. The seasoned travel guide has chosen the perfect route to claim his prized trophy and is going to indulge in some worldly pleasures before tonight's mysterious gathering at the Carib Bar.

Fall in Lauricisque

Logotype Carib Bar

Whisky JB, partner in Carib Bar

After an entrance to the rhythm of techno at the Carib Bar, which seems to have little clientele that night, Jack decides to use Michel as a simultaneous translator, since the hitman Valentine barely speaks English. Jack demands a fast, professional job from him by Friday at the latest. The low influx of the place already shows us that, if you choose a weekday night, it is a safe place to have meetings in which the death penalty is negotiated.

Michel: tour guide, interpreter and networker
The hit man has more courtesans than a narco

"Half now, half on delivery"

The Carib Bar closes early that night and Michel and Valentine celebrate on the horrible zebra-skin sofas. Despite the premature closure, the music continues to play so as not to wake up the gossiping neighbors.

The next day we meet again with Deb, who is berating her bandit lover who didn't pick up the phone a couple of days ago. The fool responds quickly to the question about where: "I was on the beach", but omits the information about who.

I called you many times... 

We are going to París, like Lionel

Although doubts corrode her, Deb knows that she is immersed in a forward flight and puts aside her more than feasible horns, to show her boarding passes to the city of love. You will have time to keep an eye on your new bigard under the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. The transition to the next scene includes another of those auger bites that birds perform to catch their scaly victims off guard. Max Bellocchio shoots these natural scenes in many, many films. 
It is a fingerprint; a stamp that highlights his authorship and from which his passion for ornithology is deduced.

Bellocchio and the birds

Jack, while the island lives on, continues to wander through Sainte Anne, staring blankly and decides to make a call to release the tension that has food for his morale. However, it is now necessary to look at one detail.

One moto is nearby

Jack is scary

Jack is making deals with a hit man and he knows that people of that ilk bring trouble sooner rather than later. So when, walking through the souvenir market of Sainte Anne, he hears the acceleration of a motorcycle behind him, he remembers the adventures of Popeye, the Osito or another hitman filled all the judges and prosecutors who were persecuting the Cartel with lead. Medellín through the streets of a Colombia poisoned by cocaine.

Sebastian Barrio uses the same shirt in Tropical Heat

During the call, Jack confesses to Michel that he is very nervous and asks him for some action with a girl to relax. Michel, who in addition to being a networker is an achiever, will do everything possible.

Then it links with a zoom that takes us back to the scene of the masks in Eyes wide shut, in which an unknown girl saves the protagonist's life, but this time with a less friendly message, since in the flashback that Jack experiences, Deb asks for a divorce.

I want to divorce

Guilty and sweaty

Instinctive and sweaty

Here the viewer receives the dose of morality that he expects when he begins to watch Deadly love in paradise. From the first moment, he looks for culprits, and at this point in the movie all are, to a greater or lesser extent. Some for leading a double love life, another for vengeful, in addition to the hit man who kills for money and Michel, who takes advantage of everyone as much as possible.

And speaking of the man, Michel takes another client on a plane trip. The reliable Cessna is the best way to fly over the Caribbean islands and its spacious passenger compartment allows you to enjoy the ride.

Cessna for two

The key of the location discovery

 Marina Saint Francois in Google maps

Very soon the trip ends, and we will not know if the secret will be the drug or not, but Michel and his client land at the Beauséjour (La desiderade) airfield and quickly go to the seashore to get a good tourist experience.

"Beautiful"

And, in addition, Michel, after the hard day's work, must meet his friend Jack and organize a meeting for him with girls, among them the explorer tourist who took Le saut du bras du fort to the waterfall. The other is the young woman who was with Deb's lover on the beach, the day he did not pick up the phone despite the insistent calls. Thus, the circle is closed, in a villa located in Anser Tarare, with a huge garden and a beautiful pool.

This pool is full of my tears, sweety

The villa is placed here in Google Maps

Best quality pic in Bing Maps

The film has been entangled in its own story, without defining itself at any time, and its plot, which in advance had energy and promised a lot, has been left in something decaffeinated and without a purpose. Only a great ending could mend it, but the global of the film leaves it in one of the weakest of the tropical saga, for the moment.

The apotheosis comes in a quiet garden scene that is certainly the last breakfast. Deb pours a powerful poison into the coffee she has made for Jack and we all already know how the movie will continue ...

¿Do you want sugar or polonium 210?

The last ristretto

Then, after again alleging that he is going to the office, Jack telephones Valentine to proceed with the execution of the order. Valentine is very nervous to be a true professional; So much so that this time he even obeys orders in the english, but soon draws his revolver to fulfill his end of the bargain.

Green light

Nervous...

Ready...

He is dressed in camouflage, with a very discreet shirt

Admittedly, despite the initial nerves, Valentine approaches with confidence and self-confidence, and shoots from the back, to the head and without hesitation for a second. Those who really know about weapons assure that a shot hardly generates bleeding, not even when the body falls to the ground.

Shoot without blood

Body without blood

Although the trained ones we imagined the poisoning of Jack, still a small script twist, at the height of Wild Things McNaughton´s movie, will turn the garden into a tribute to the outcome of Reservoir Dogs. In the end, arrogance plays a trick on one of the protagonists again.

Daily menu includes coffee. Very professional but leaving its DNA

Death in Vauxhall Tigra

There was parked this red car for this scene. Coordinates in Google Maps

Caffeine could kill you..

A story that could have given much more of itself, with some will to build a more solid script, but that has remained in a failed attempt.

THE END

RATING: 2/10

Info:

Private Tropical 19 "Deadly Love in Paradise"
Year: 2005
Film genre of the plot: action thriller
Destination: Guadeloupe
ActorsNikky Cider, Kristyna Cee, Veronica de Arousa, Samantha Rubia, Jane Cruising, Belicia Steer, Laura Prion, Sebastian Zarrio, Horst Sharon, Phil Holyshit, Philippe Bean
Where can I find it: Private or Google

Enlace a la SPANISH VERSION

Comentarios

Entradas populares de este blog

Crítica de cine: Private Tropical 38 "Mother and daughter banal vacation" (2008) (Sabrina Feet, Angelina Move, Daria Shower)

Crítica de cine: Private Tropical 10 "Caribbean Airlines" (2004) (Anita Keen, Jennifer Bark, Rita Very)

Movie review: Private Tropical 8 "Ocean Dream" (2004) (Sarah Swain, Claudia Lassi, Veronica Sinchair, Julie Pilver)

Crítica de cine: Private Tropical 41 "British Virgin Ashes" (2008) (Keisha Bane, Leigh Dogan, Crystal Wink)

Crítica de cine: Private Tropical 34 "Caribbean Sea Conspiracy" (2007) (Lauryn Way, Carla Box, Ellen Haint, Tarra Wait, Cindy Collar)

Crítica de cine: Private Tropical 6 "Tequila Bum Bum" (2003) (Sandra Pusso, Tina Tagner, Alexa Gays, Maya Sold)