The Maltese Holiday (2021 TV Movie) User Reviews

Is it really in Malta... I doubt it.

[e_marmara · 6/10 · 21 March 2022]

I am Maltese but I doubt the main actors were really in Malta. The accent of the presumably Maltese actors is atrocious. It seems arabic but it is good to know that we Maltese people have a good English accent. The amazing panoramic views are definitely Maltese. Also, during the Christmas holidays it is quite cold but ironically the main actress had a dip in the pool and most of the actors wore short-sleeved clothes. I believe that more research about the Maltese culture should have been done before the movie was made. I enjoyed it solely because I am Maltese.

Malta scenes too few.

[jonquilbeynon · 4/10 · 31 October 2023]

Even travelling from New York $15000 is at least 5 times too much for a hiliday in Malta. Landing looked like UK, airport looked american. A few scenes were filmed in Malta but the majority including hotel interior and vineyard were in NY with backgoround nothing like Malta or indeed Xmas time as too many leaves on the trees. Obvious to anyone who knows and loves Malta, very disappointed with the lack of local scenes. Having the actors travel to Malta and having a unit based there with a very productive film studio, why were the Maltese scenes not all filmed there. Some great aerial shots. Gives a very distorted picture of Malta and its people.

In Malta they are not!

[SimoCummings · 1/10 · 31 May 2022]

Gorgeous panoramic views of the Maltese Islands and that's the only redeeming and real feature of this movie... Everything else is a mystery to me.. There are no direct flights from NYC to Malta The hotel they are staying in is not Ramla Bay although some outside scenes were at that location.. None of the 'locals' were Maltese; listening to them pronouncing Maltese phrases was excruciating.. Swimming at Christmas would be a very cold experience! Why are people walking around like it's summer when the movie is based on a Christmas holiday? December is not beach weather in Malta.. The 'Crystal' Lagoon is in fact The Blue Lagoon which is in Comino and you cannot get there by car! .. And that vineyard??? Where was that?

So silly... They could have based this movie somewhere in America and done a better job of it!

Get your facts straight people! 😂

Don't get me started on the acting..

You can tell it was made by Americans. What a shame.

[kucclamifsud · 1/10 · 27 March 2022]

I would like to leave a review on this film for the sole purpose of me myself being Maltese and that i noticed some very off things while watching it. It had an ok story line but that is probably the only alright thing about it. Firstly, in Malta the winter is pretty cold with temperatures going down to 5 Celsius regularly and strong winds are also very common during December so I don't know what they drank in order to be able to go on a boat ride?!?!?!?! In the middle on winter???? Wow. Anyway, I could also note straight away that the shot from the plane landing was 100% not Malta. You can simply go on google earth or maps and very obviously see that there isn't a spot of trees that is bigger than a football ground. The only close thing to a forest that we have is Buskett that is on the other side of Malta from the runway. The producer could have simply found some helicopter footage of the runway and rightfully claimed it for this movie. Now I could sense that there probably wasn't that much of a huge budget for this movie but when you make a film based on a country, please remember that people from there might see it and note obvious flaws. I apologize if this is sounding too harsh but its a shame for such a film (which probably took so much time to make) to loose its value over small things. Anyway, I would also like to address the reception person that the main character greeted and his...accent. Maltese people usually have an almost English sounding accent, not a weird Italian or Arabic accent. If you find someone who speaks Arabic or Italian as their first language sure, but, they both implemented (or tried to because I had to watch the scene for about 5 times to be able to understand what they were saying) Maltese phrases which I could guess meant that they were Maltese. Also you could have easily asked a Maltese person or the ones on the production team (I noticed some Maltese surnames in the credits) to show you how to pronounce "il-Millied it-tajjeb" in a fluent way and whatever the guy behind the reception tried to say. (Please don't use google translate!!) Also, if you are going to use other locations to shoot scenes instead of using the real ones, at least please see that they match the area!!!! The Ramla Bay Resort doesn't have trees around it and there aren't grape fields that big in Malta for sure. Have you seen how condensed it is with buildings?!!?!?

Also, you can't hike to the Blue Lagoon!!! Did the one above tell you that because he's the only guy that I heard that walks on water.

Anyway, something funny I found was what she said while they were having wine under a gazebo or something. She said that it was so peaceful and calming and at that point I knew that she hadn't even went once in the centre or anywhere besides Mellieha. Ok I'm going to stop giving criticism now i hope that who ever reads this notices how small things in a movie make a lot of difference!!

Thank you.

Cute Movie

[nancyleya · 7/10 · 1 January 2023]

This movie was filmed during the Covid lockdowns so they couldn't fully fill it in Malta. It was 75-80% filmed on Long Island NY where I live. The Hampton Inn in Rockville Center was where the room scenes and hallway scenes were filmed and the majority of the other scenes were fold at the Del Vino vinyards in Northport and some at Pindar Vinyards in Peconic. I work at a hospital not far from some of the filming but due to Covid restrictions I couldn't get close. I really think they might have done some of the cliff scene at the Montauk Lighthouse ground but some people told me no. The character, Michael was from Big Brother.

The Maltese Coma

[srlucado-31966 · 2/10 · 25 July 2022]

I get the feeling that some people had the idea: "Let's make a movie about Malta" ... and that's as far as they got.

There is no real story here. Girl meets boy. Sparks don't fly. Contrivance follows. They get together.

There are some nice beauty shots of Malta. But the movie clearly wasn't filmed anywhere close. Most shots look like somebody's neighborhood in upstate New York.

Production values are very limited. A new low in cheap is reached by having a character talk to her phone, instead of showing any action.

Can't comment on the acting. The script is so anemic that most instruction manuals are more exciting. Not much to work with there!

Your average Hallmark movie looks like Gone With the Wind compared to this snoozer. Get a travel video about Malta instead.

Very Harlequin Destination Romance Novel

[elvirammomo · 10/10 · 31 December 2022]

Don't believe the haters! This is a lovely hallmark or lifetime style romcom, with tons of chemistry between the leads, and fun side characters. It's baffling to me that all of a sudden no one can suspend reality on a FICTIONal movie and its location to appraise the actual story and content?? All of a sudden everyone is a geospatial analyst and needs to know the exact coordinates this was filmed at?? Yes, it's set in Malta and they make a big deal of the characters getting there-BUT just like most budget holiday films set anywhere like the North Pole they're not filmed there! Or like idk every movie set in nyc but filmed in a studio in Burbank, or like Titanic (lol) this movie was not recorded in the exact geographical coordinates it's suppose to be in lmaooo. So all these 1-stars over location, location, location, are very weird.

rubbish

[flyingnigel · 1/10 · 25 March 2022]

First no direct flight from usa to malta airoprt was not malta hotel was not on malta

produders shuld ahve studied malta a lot more to create an authntic film.

What a cute dog

[doleary-68966 · 10/10 · 5 January 2022]

The white dog in the beginning of the film totally steals the show amazing but what kind of dog owner doesn't bring up her dog or try to face time him.

The Anti-Ad For Malta

[matthew-farrugia88 · 1/10 · 5 November 2022]

The fact that this movie was made is suspect. It stinks of being a tax write-off or an 80 minute paid ad to go visit the Maltese islands. Except that the movie essentially consists of interior shots of a NYC hotel, generic drone clips of the Maltese coast with sputterings of stock footage- at one point we see stock footage of a French airport (???). No idea what the point of basing the plot in Malta was, probably just sponsored as an ad, except that if I were a tourist I'd be put off visiting this place. It's cynical, lazy, cringe worthy and an insult to anyone who watches it. Also, the Maltese people are not Maltese. Talk about cultural appropriation. Il-Milied it-tajjeb.

PAINFUL TO WATCH

[rcys-50358 · 1/10 · 15 April 2022]

This was NOT filmed in Malta at all.

Airport was not Luqa airport Actors were not Maltese Hotel were not in Malta

Some overhead footage was of the Maltese islands yes

Terrible movie What a shame it was misleading to viewers.

Omg that was painful.

[maryochse · 1/10 · 30 March 2022]

Cody should stick to big brother. This movie was horrible the acting was terrible. The sound guy was horrible. The characters were depressing. I had to fast forward I could not watch the entire movie. I think they could all use some acting classes. No spoilers to give away this was exactly like every hallmark movie except more lame.

Woeful

[ptrsknnr · 1/10 · 11 December 2022]

I have been to Malta 4 times 2019 being my last....the hotel is a big American one....there is nothing like this in Malta......its too cold in Malta in December to swim..a fireplace in the dining room when its suppose to be warm?!

The acting is abyssmal....the Maltess people sound French...its embarrasing....no research was done before it was made...Shows how ignorant the Americans are....will put anyone off if interested in visiting Malta.

Dont watch this its just too terrible..badly acted rotten scriot cheap sets.... wishy washy heap of crap....nauseus.... The barman is a know all love counsellor.....terrible.

If you enjoy Bad Acting and poor script then you'll love this, otherwise, not worth the effort

[stampmyart · 1/10 · 10 December 2023]

Is this an entry to a film festival or something? Perhaps a student study to get into film school, a final project? It's terrible.

The acting overall is, ummm well, it's obvious acting, and at times you feel like they are "reading" their scripts. You are not immersed or invested in the story because of the bad acting. There is the 32 minutes of monotony before they even conversed cordially with each other, and then more boring downtime. Then, there's the 8 minutes of non-dialog music video telling the story before going back to BAD acting! In the beginning it feels like this really for the Tic toc crowd, but then it also seems too boring at times to keep their attention span. The beginning credits start like a Beat Saber or Guitar Hero though so you expect it to stay active, ha! NOT!

Overall it's HORRIBLE and a chore to finish! Well, maybe if you're the 15 year-old-crowd and watch every "influencer" maybe then you'll love it. But OMG! How do these people think everything they do is sooooo important they have to be rude to other humans and record every stupid little thing in their life? Oh, look now I'm in the bathroom, now I'm drinking, I'm sitting on a plane, now I'm still on the plane... How can you think you're the center of the world that your every breath needs to be published for the world to watch? And he's so miserable and crotchety in general, and to another person all because he miserable about his life circumstances and his opinion of the woman who he feels put him in this position of being alone at the holiday. He should never have gone in the first place. If he really had all those issues, he shouldn't have been so easily talked into going. This would have been better if he wanted to go, he could still be standoffish for her stupid influencer junk and it would still have succeeded in the same outcome. The whole thing is annoying and not fun watch at all! I watch movies to escape reality not be beat over the head with it multiple times! Bleh!

I mean she was Miss bubbly personality, but equally as clueless about proper conduct. He's Mr. Life sucks take it out on anyone in his path. This should make for a fun meet up when you break through all that, right! Ummm... nope, it takes too long to get there, and it's not worth the effort to do so, not to mention it's magically from hate to love in an instant. I wouldn't want miss yappy sitting next to me on the plane while I was trying to sleep. And I would think Mr. Grumpy about everything didn't need me to keep trying to "cheer him up". Beyond the whole ridiculous tic toc or Instagram posts it was also "B" boring with capitol B, slow, predictable, and just generally a waste of time to watch. There are so many other cute meet-up stories this one just doesn't do anything for me...yeah, most are predictable, but less annoying than this!!! Her stupidity gets worse, way to kill yourself with ignorance of only worrying about a picture. Stop being in front of camera and start paying attention to the world around you. The dialog is terrible. Can I use enough adjectives to describe the terribleness of this movie, LOL! As annoying as my review is, the movie is worse!

I have no idea why Amazon recommended this to me, but to give a fair review I watched the whole terrible thing. Yeah, next time, I'm hitting fast forward for a Amazon recommendation that starts off this bad, because you know what, it doesn't get better no matter how many minutes more you watch! I wish it was like YouTube and you could speed it up and hear it in fast mode! LOL!

Not very Maltese

[jbdancer01 · 2/10 · 9 January 2023]

None of these locations look anything like Malta. Not the airport at all. I wanted to see limestone buildings. At least film in Florida or CA. And teach the actors how to pronounce things correctly.

If you're gonna have a film set in Malta the location is half the film! I used to live in Malta and was so excited to see locations like I've seen in other films. What a let down. I saw nothing. And even the insides of buildings in Malta don't look anything like these ones. Unless you're maybe in Sliema or St Julian's. Maybe.

It's also slow paced and predictable.

There are few films set in Malta as it is, but this is a huge disappointment.