The pair may be about to divorce and Prisca has had a health scare, things are uncertain and they want the kids to "make some memories".
Once they are settled in, the hotel manager offers them a trip to a private beach.
No good will come of this.
CW: body horror
Having greatly enjoyed "Trap" and to a lesser extent "Knock at the Cabin" I thought I'd give M. Night Shyamalan's other recent movie a go.
At the beach, biological processes are massively accelerated. Kids turn into teenagers, then adults. Adults age and die. Wounds heal, disease progresses, stuff rots. All in a kind of inconsistent way.
Unable to leave, for bullshit reasons, the various beachgoers behave in panicked, selfish or improbable ways trying to deal with the charged situation. It all gets very repetitive and tiresome.
There's plenty of scope to cover deep themes about life, ageing and loss, your relationships with your kids and how they come to replace you but it's all so ham-fisted.
As it nears conclusion suddenly a 'twist' gets dropped in that while interesting in principle would have worked so much better if integrated fully with the main narrative. You could tell it was there from early on but it remained almost completely obfuscated until the sudden and rushed resolution.
Dull 4/10.