Fantasy Island (2020)

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  d_riptide

  1 / 10

  Yeah, it goes without question that “Fantasy Island” is this years equivalent to Truth Or Dare in almost every conceivable fashion. Outside of being the perfect definition of misguided, it ends up drowning itself in its own pool of misery, once again proving why there’s no need to break something that didn’t need to be broken in the first place. None of the characters feel truly alive, none of the scares added more to the tension that was nowhere present, dialogue is disposable, the pacing is schizophrenic, the tone is all over the place as it jumps from one genre to the next with no coherence or consistency while dragging itself to a snails pace, cinematography and editing are handled rather poorly, the direction doesn’t work, the jokes don’t work, it’s visually boring and whatever life lessons the film tries to bring to light is stuff that has already been told before and handled much better in the past. And even as good as it’s intentions may be, it all gets lopsided by a needlessly complicated plotline that’s unfocused, frustrating, confusing, convoluted and nonsensical at every turn.
  
  It takes a well-written premise from a simple source material that literally wrote itself decades before and adds too many rules while trying WAY too hard to make a big thrilling adventure when the basic fundamentals was more than enough to sell the movie. How do you take a simple yet pointless concept and make it even MORE pointless by trying to actually give it a point? I don’t mind it trying to be dark or intense but it’s not going to amount to anything if the story makes no sense and the characters are thinner than a mountain of sandpaper.
  
  For fans of the show and non-fans alike, this takes a million steps backwards. THIS was no paradise.

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