Malta Independent

Fantasy Island

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Businesswo­man Gwen Olsen, former police officer Patrick Sullivan, step-brothers J.D. and Brax Weaver, and disturbed Melanie Cole win a contest to visit Fantasy Island, a tropical resort where fantasies apparently come true. Upon arrival, they meet the island’s “keeper”, Mr. Roarke, and are taken to their fantasies: J.D. and Brax enter a rave at a mansion; Patrick enlists in a war in honor of his late father; Melanie decides to take revenge on a childhood bully; and Gwen accepts her boyfriend Alan’s marriage proposal she rejected many years ago. Patrick is captured by a group of American soldiers and discovers that their commander is his father on his last mission before dying while Melanie enters an undergroun­d room where she tortures her bully, Sloane Maddison, by uploading an online video of her cheating on her husband.

However, another video reveals that Sloane was kidnapped and taken to the island to perform the fantasy against her will. Melanie saves her from a masked surgeon and they run away. As night falls, both are attacked again by the surgeon before he is killed by Damon, a private investigat­or living on the island. Damon takes them to a cave, where he explains that the fantasies are created by the spring water under the island’s “heart”: a glowing rock that shows a person’s deepest desires. After revealing that Roarke mixed the water with his guests’ drinks, Damon explains that he came to the island to investigat­e until Roarke offered him a wish to see his deceased daughter. Unfortunat­ely, his fantasy turned into a living nightmare that trapped him on the island. The trio collect some spring water and continue to the resort to find a phone.

Gwen wakes up to discover that she has a daughter with Alan. When she is reluctant to continue, Roarke appears and reveals that he has his own fantasy, which is to be with his deceased wife, and it will be fulfilled as long as he meet his guests in their fantasies. Gwen manages to convince Roarke to change her fantasy by persuading him on continuing to see his wife. However, Fantasy Island begins to turn the other fantasies into living nightmares as J.D. and Brax are attacked by a drug cartel associated with the mansion’s owner while Gwen is taken to the night she accidental­ly caused a fire that killed her neighbor Nick Taylor. She tries to rescue Nick, but falls unconsciou­s in the fire, only to be rescued by Roarke’s personal assistant, Julia. Gwen also realizes that all the other guests, except Melanie, were there that same night.

At the same time, Patrick attempts to leave the island with his father, but he is called to rescue some hostages, which turn out to be J.D. and Brax in the mansion. The soldiers kill the cartel, but they reanimate as zombies, who murder J.D. and the rest of the soldiers. Patrick’s father sacrifices himself so that his son and Brax can escape back to the resort. Melanie and Sloane are ambushed by the zombified surgeon, until Damon leaps over a cliff with him, killing them both. Arriving at the resort, Sloane calls her husband and convinces him to call Damon’s military associates.

Classifica­tion: 15

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