It could have been a good movie. The executive producer must have wanted a tropical vacation really bad. This production's cost was, at least, twice as much as it would have been if shot on the mainland. The casting director should never work in Hollywood again. The worst of the casting was the black detective. He looked and acted like a robot reading from cue cards. The detective sister was also poorly cast as well. The restaurant where Connie works, was the best of the locations. I've eaten there many times. It is NOT a hotel bar/restaurant, but the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor's restaurant. The other locations shot did NOT give Hawaii's beauty a chance. Overhead and distance shots were plenty, but no real beautiful ground shots of the flora and fauna.

Holes in the plots were many. First, the phone calls where there's only breathing. The detective sister could have pinged or looked up the number to find the ower/location. The trashed hotel room: the hotel's surveillance cameras could have captured who came and went from that trashed room. These and more inaccuracies helped to ruin the movie.

Ive watched hundreds of film and tv most were laughably bad, unfit for consumption. At some point you purge the unworthy media trash from your clouded memory. Sometimes among the debris there are low or mid budget content that are actually watchable with your human other or pet cat.

I think the title is clickbait. If the story is believable everything else falls into place. Pena and other actors do a great job.

And this, my review is biased because it made me homesick. I'd like to see what Miyata's next project will be.

Secrets of an Escort/The Other Me (I'll never understand why LMN flicks always have two titles)

This movie was nowhere near the 10 score that all the gushing reviewers here have given it - believe me. They must be friends and relatives of the lead actress who they've made such a point of to overly praise her acting abilities. Any ten year old could've done the part just as well as she did. Any toaster oven could do the part as passable as she did. Meh.

And there was nothing suspenseful about this thing, no matter all the reviewers who went on about how suspenseful and "nail-biting" it is....lol. It was easy as pie to figure out the villain after the obvious clues given early in the movie: the former college-mate who made a point of telling Connie/Veronica she was divorced and didn't need money, and the main client - William - who's wealthy and made a point of telling Connie he was getting divorced. So when the daughter was kidnapped, of course it was the long-lost sorority sister who was, of course, William's wife, who did it to get revenge on the prostitute William was so in love with, of course!

Bland and boring. And the acting was horrendous.

Side note: as I've mentioned in several other reviews of Lifetime flicks, I wish their crew would make use of lists of male and female names online to discover that there are many other names to use for their movie characters OTHER THAN Allison/Sarah/Terry/William/David/Maya/Jason, etc. There must be around 15 Allisons and 25 Sarahs by now!

Grade D - 2 out of 10.