Pretty Good

good back-story, and good acting

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Great series! Don't get me wrong, but in the beginning, no one can over throw a midget cat!? Seriously !? Love the scenery. Good acting. But a midget. have spent years in other Caribbean countries, got to be careful. How do they know it is 7 million dollars? I have invited people to watch!

Note that I tried to post this review on Amazon and for the first time ever my review was rejected. Apparently they do not like critical reviews of their own content, or perhaps the review reviewer was just having a bad day. Whatever. They gave no reason, so I will stop providing them free review content. Here it goes:This is painful to watch. These are the stupidest people I have ever watched on screen. Making idiotic decisions. And not having a whit of sense between them.I had watched the first episode during pilot week and wasn't impressed, but I was hopeful that it might get better. Watched the second and third episodes and just can't go any further.Stupidity that stuck out to me (heavy spoilers if you care):* You bury a person all of two feet below the ground? Have you never seen any kind of a movie or TV show, any of you? Haven't you at the very least heard people talking about "six feet under" and wondered, "why so deep"? Sheesh. That is just stupid.* The money. Why did they take it with them off the boat instead of leaving one or two behind to guard it while the others went to get a fuse? Seems simple enough. Then, when they are on shore with the money, their great plan for getting that back to the boat's owner is to rent a car and put the money in the trunk and mail the key to the guy? Are they idiots? Why not put the money back in the same hold where the drugs had been, since they were returning the boat to the marina?* The guy pulls out a big blue fuse. Big. Blue. Fuse. You go to the store and buy a gallon's worth of assorted color fuses of various sizes. Really? NONE of these morons remembered that the fuse was blue? NONE of them has ever worked on anything with a fuse to know that they are color coded and come in only a handful of sizes? And they replace it with a yellow one ... which will either blow prematurely or not be effective as a fuse (the latter is fine unless there is another fault which would allow the electrical fault to blow something much harder to replace, but the former would leave the boat stranded at a random place in the ocean).* The stupid personal bickering, not when there is nothing else happening , but when timing is critical. It was tiring. Maybe having watched the first episode so long ago I'd lost whatever connection to these characters that might have been made there, but honestly, I don't know enough about them and don't identify with them at all and so don't care about their stupid squabbling. Get on with the story.* The girl needing financial advice. It took all of ten minutes to help her out. They couldn't figure out how to do that? Did the two of them really need to leave the house together instead of one of them going back while the other guy took care of the girl so there wouldn't be additional issues from her?* They saran wrap the "cat" to a wooden chair, suspend the chair from a rope, and think that is going to be secure? I mean, come on. It wouldn't take but maybe a half hour to smash the chair against the sides of the well and free himself. I'm assuming that that is what happened, because I can't go on to the next episode, even running the background. It is just too stupid.

I wanted to like this. I was trying to find something to watch on my 4K TV and settled on this. I figured Belize is beautiful (as it turns out it is filmed in Puerto Rico), but still pretty enough. I have always found Billy Zane fun, so I have given it a try.The first episode was intriguing and well, there is some of the most graphic violence ever filmed, but these guys might be the dumbest, worst drivers in the history of the world. I am now seven episodes in and just want them all caught. I should be rooting for someone, but there is not a character to like in the bunch. I would add details, but I want to do this without spoilers. Just trust me, without the 4K filming, this has nothing to offer!

A lot of the reviews seem to be based on the pilot episode. I'll agree, it was pretty freaking great, with an excellent hook! Then, the show took a turn for the worse. While the production value stayed consistently excellent, the writing turned out lack luster. It almost ended up turning you against the protagonists for being such idiots and making not just stupid, but completely unrealistic choices. It also contradicted itself in many ways and asked for way too much 'suspension of disbelief' throughout. The most frustrating part is that it started out soo well, bringing back memories of the first season of Breaking Bad ("what would normal people do in THAT kind of situation?!") - and ended up feeling more like Gilligan's Island. I almost want to give a one star rating to counteract all the 10 star praise that was given for just the first episode or two, but I'll give it a 6 for the 'meh' it earned.