I love NZ, but not this film. It was so predictable, so unrealistic, and the acting/script so forced that it was hard to watch. For example there is a scene at the beginning where the actress leaves her luggage to get cellphone signal and it rolls down the hill and hits someone’s car. The hill was steep, the rolling luggage made plenty of noise when it started to roll, yet she didn’t notice this. Really?! What kind of moron doesn’t notice that? Later on, she hides behind a stack of manure to avoid someone and the whole stack of manure is moving because she is leaning on it. She is in her thirties not thirteen, no adult is that pathetic. Assuming they were, they would not be able to make the stack of manure move like that, as it would be really heavy. Later on she invents a solar panel shaped like a daisy to power the hotel. The size of the solar panel would power a radio and an led light. It would not power an entire hotel. Even though I love soppy films and will forgive some plot lines that are a bit far fetched, this one assumes the audience has an IQ of a chicken. One would need several bottles of wine to overlook the ridiculous screen play.
I think the concept was good, but it felt like a no frills spray can of cheese versus a nice French Camembert. A waste of the beautiful back drop and some of the actors talent.