I'll spoil the film for you, the rocks are what's making them age, and all the "hotel employees" are actually pharmacudical employees who have been using the beach as a "testing site" for new drugs that they can "test in a day, and save lives in days what would have taken years" and M. Night Slam-a'lama-Ding Dong is not only the bud driver, but also the evil moderator for all of these "tests". 2 of the kids escape after receiving some sort of weird cryptic message saying "My dad doesn't like the coral" and they swim out and expose the pharmaceutical company after the 6 year old boy, now a 50 year old man, comes upon a police officer he saw on the regular beach that they went to before the "bad" one, this officer somehow believed them and then went ahead and "pressed charges" and "put them away for good".
The story would've made a lot more sense if it was a 22 minute episode of the twilight zone, but it is almost a two hour film that drags on and on and on.
One of the other things that really bothered me about this movie, is the way that it was shot. I have never seen such a heinous miss use of a wide angle camera. Every single shot, and I mean every single shot except for some of the close-ups, is not shot wide enough so characters are cropped out, sometimes fully, out of the shot because the camera is too close, when it should be much farther away making the shot look somewhat normal, I don't know if that's what M night was going for, but it was extremely annoying, weird and just downright nonsensical.
All in all, I would say please don't waste your time with this film, it is honestly not worth sitting in front of the TV for an hour and 41 minutes. Go on Netflix, or wherever the original twilight zone is being streamed, and watch that instead, hell go even watch ultra Q the Japanese equivalent of the twilight zone.
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