Return to Paradise

Come on ... sorry. The plot is just too absurb to believe. And Anne Heche is extremely unsavory. Pheonix and Vaughn were pretty cool, but they couldn't save this horrible storyline.... Full review

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES I HAVE SEEN. ALL OF THE ACTORS WERE EXCELLENT. I THINK THIS IS VINCE VAUGHNS BEST MOVIE EVER.... Full review

This movie was absolutely FANTASTIC!!! In my opinion, Vince Vaughn is definitely at his best! Phoenix really knows how to steal the scenes with his amazing acting skills! This movie made me cry at least 3 times. I'm just very upset... Full review

So you spent a few good weeks with two other guys getting high and having sex with all the pretty girls in Malaysia. Great. Now, 2 years later, it turns out that one of the guys has been in prison because... Full review

Heche is excellent. Phoenix truly excellent. Vaughn also very strong. This film raises some very hard questions and doesn't insult its audience by throwing out any trite answers. Sometimes there aren't easy answers. Watch this film.... Full review

A cautionary tale about buying drugs in third world countries. Good movie with a three hanky ending.Nothing stands out except Vince Vaugn who shows us more than he ever will again... Full review

This was a great movie. I felt this was a great representation of the lengths you would go for a friend. This makes you realize just how important your friendships are with your friends, and what they mean to you, and... Full review

This movie really touched me. How easily this could happen to anyone of us. My brother went to Malaysia and he bought cheep has as well... This movie scared the crap out of me!... Full review

What a powerful, emotional movie! What can I say about this except that it made me cry? Brilliantly acted by Anne Heche and Joaquin Phoenix, Return To Paradise is a story about an American arrested in Malaysia for drugs, and... Full review

This movie appeals on many levels... smartly written, with seductive cinematography, strong editing and acting throughout (with forays into brilliant). And, yes, the romantic sub-plot and un-"Hollywood" style ending DO make sense! Read on ... (NO SPOILERS…)Return to Paradise, a... Full review

Then Return to Paradise would be a better movie, that's what if. ... Full Review

Obviously, righteous justice is only righteous if an American finger is pulling the trigger, which makes this film's cries seem somewhat insincere. "Return to Paradise" I'm walking out of the theater and right behind me are two twelve-year-old boys whose first comment after sitting through what the filmmakers would like to think is a highly sophisticated moral thriller is this: "I thought Anne Heche was gay. ... Full Review

Return to Paradise,'' now out on video, is a drama, and a good one, about various ways of looking for a way out. The cat-eyed Heche comes across as smart, sure of herself and warm. ... Full Review

Return to Paradise'' is a drama, and a good one, about various ways of looking for a way out. ``Return to Paradise'' could get lost in the summer shuffle The cat-eyed Heche comes across as smart, sure of herself and warm. ... Full Review

If it's to be experienced at all, "Return to Paradise" is best seen as a lively piece of pulp, not a profound exploration of the vagaries of the human soul. More and more, Heche is becoming one of those rare actresses who can be counted on to bring credibility to every film she's in, and "Return to Paradise" benefits greatly from her intensity. ... Full Review

Nineteen ninety-eight may go down in film history as Hollywood's Year of the Emerging Woman, -- a year in which many of the major actresses of the early twenty-first 21st century first showed their stuff. ... Full Article

WHEN two movies, ''Return to Paradise'' and ''Clay Pigeons,'' were scheduled to open on the same day this month, sharp-eyed executives at Polygram -- the company behind the financing of these films -- looked at the cast lists and thought... ... Full Article

"RETURN TO Paradise" begins with a sense of doom that is quickly realized. But, for me, part of the sense of doom was operating outside the movie. I feared from the opening moments that the movie would be a cliche. ... Full Article

You're young, travelling the world with your buddy, carefree and careless. In Malaysia, you both meet a third man, spending five weeks together enjoying the country's sights and delights -- including an abundant quantity of cheap hash. ... Full Article

Three men in their early twenties, each looking for adventure on the road to adulthood, cross paths in Malaysia and enjoy a few sybaritic months together before moving on. ... Full Article

Prisoners' dilemmaYoung American Lewis McBride (Joaquin Phoenix) awaits execution in a bare, dirt-floored cell in a Malaysian prison, convicted of a drug charge. Beth Eastern (Anne Heche), Lewis's lawyer, has one chance of saving his life -- convince Lewis's friends ... Full Article