Whilst the rather obvious title of this review is designed to both serve as a brief plot description and a review summary, for the first 20 mins or so I thought the film was going to ruin my fun by being at least semi-intriguing.
You are introduced to the main characters of the film, a fairly young family with two children, in a car ride to their too good to be true beachside paradise retreat, and you immediately get a sense of unease and the feeling that there is something going on beneath the surface, something that you would like to know more about.
Sadly, you wouldn't even need a bucket and spade to get to the depth the film delivers and instead you are treated to banal characters with no reason to empathise with their plight and have to sit through an epoch-spanning, turgid bore-fest where everything goes in exactly the direction you expect.
The most annoying thing about it was that there were no hints as to why everything was happening meaning instead of being horrifying and mysterious everything just felt absurd and drab. Towards the end when they realised that they hadn't given any reason for any of the preceding events they tried to rush in an explanation as to why everything was happening, an explanation that would have been fine if they had set any groundwork for it in the previous hour and a half, but because they didn't you were left feeling as if they could have substituted literally any other reason and the film wouldn't have played out differently.
Definitely less of a dream trip away and more of a tripped over your own shoelaces. Avoid.
You are introduced to the main characters of the film, a fairly young family with two children, in a car ride to their too good to be true beachside paradise retreat, and you immediately get a sense of unease and the feeling that there is something going on beneath the surface, something that you would like to know more about.
Sadly, you wouldn't even need a bucket and spade to get to the depth the film delivers and instead you are treated to banal characters with no reason to empathise with their plight and have to sit through an epoch-spanning, turgid bore-fest where everything goes in exactly the direction you expect.
The most annoying thing about it was that there were no hints as to why everything was happening meaning instead of being horrifying and mysterious everything just felt absurd and drab. Towards the end when they realised that they hadn't given any reason for any of the preceding events they tried to rush in an explanation as to why everything was happening, an explanation that would have been fine if they had set any groundwork for it in the previous hour and a half, but because they didn't you were left feeling as if they could have substituted literally any other reason and the film wouldn't have played out differently.
Definitely less of a dream trip away and more of a tripped over your own shoelaces. Avoid.