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Rating: 1 out of 10
Oh my goodness... I absolutely hated this movie. I don't often say that about films, but The Resort... just yikes. 😂
First off, it is an extremely short movie, at only 1 hour and 16 minutes long. With that, you would expect this to be fast-paced, with lots of stuff happening. Nope! The characters waste half their time on the island doing things that aren't even central to the plot, just so that it will lead to drama with them cutting the trolley deadline close. Not only that, but with only 30 minutes left in the movie... literally nothing had happened yet.
The Resort is also labeled as a horror movie and it's really not scary at all. The film spends an abundance of time on pointless comedic gags that aren't even funny in the slightest. All of the "scares" are jumpscares, which weren't even effective.
The next gigantic issue I had with the flick was the characters. No time is spent developing them, so there is no reason to care about any of them. The acting is subpar at best and their dialogue is extremely cringey throughout. They make some of the most questionable decisions I've ever seen from any movie in my life. First, when thinking about going to an abandoned island with no people, no help, and only one time to get home or else they'll be stranded for a week, they think, "SIGN ME UP! SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT IDEA!" This is a slight spoiler as well, but a major plotpoint in this movie is that one character's backpack was left in the Resort, so she adamantly says they need to go back and get it. Quite literally only a few scenes later, she drops the backpack and abandons it... like are you kidding me?
The "plot twist", or whatever you would call the ending of this movie, was absolutely infuriating as well. The way this ended basically canceled out the entire reasoning for the movie's existence. I don't know why they thought this was a good idea, but it certainly wasn't.
In the end, this entire movie drove me insane. The characters and story direction made no sense and a few "pretty" waterfall shots can't save that. Please don't watch this flick, unless you have an hour of your life that you don't want back. Sorry for this rant! 😂
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