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Today I will show you an action, adventure, fantasy film from 2020, titled Fantasy Island.
Spoilers ahead!
Watch out and take care.
Julia is waiting on the beach for the plane with the guests to arrive and when she finally
sees it, she excitedly runs off toward the hotel, to inform Roarke, and then they both
leave his office.
Melanie is the first of the guests to exit the plane, followed by JD and his brother
Brax.
As soon as Patrick gets out of the plane he turns and helps Gwen come out as well.
Julia, Mr. Roarke's personal assistant, greets them on the pier and congratulates them on
winning the contest.
Meanwhile, Damon is observing them from a far.
JD and Brax are told to wait at the bar until their rooms are ready while the others proceed
to theirs.
Patrick has a weird encounter with his valet and Melanie begins unpacking.
Julia brings Gwen to her room and they talk about Roarke and how he's able to execute
everybody’s fantasies on the island based on a questionnaire.
Julia gives her a mysterious answer and when she walks out of Gwen's room she gets a nosebleed.
Gwen prepares for the evening when she hears something and investigates, then she sees
a reflection of a burned man in the mirror, who isn't there when she turns around.
Later, she joins the others, with JD and Brax still waiting for their room and messing with
Patrick.
Melanie crashes their conversation, being super forward in her advances toward Patrick
and asking everyone what their fantasy is, but they get to talking about how it's done
instead.
Suddenly, Roarke arrives and officially welcomes them to Fantasy Island and informs the guests
about the two rules: there is only one fantasy per guest and they must play out their fantasies
in full.
Roarke says that only the island knows how the fantasy will play out.
The first guests to have their fantasy start on the island are the brothers, so Roarke
takes them to the fantasy saying they wanted to have it all.
What they get is a huge mansion with an ongoing party.
They have fun in their fantasy until the mysterious figure of the burned man appears there as
well.
The next morning, Gwen is called into Mr. Roarke's office, where he tells her that the
fantasy in her questionnaire is a little more abstract, but he sees it as a challenge he
is more than willing to accept.
Roarke explains that he can help her deal with the thing she regrets most so Gwen tells
him that she wishes she had a daughter with her ex-boyfriend Allen and that her regret
was declining his proposal of marriage.
Roarke gets up and shows her to a door that holds her secret fantasy, telling her that
it will allow her to change that moment.
Gwen is a bit unsure, but she opens the doors, realizing she had entered the restaurant where
Allen proposed to her five years ago and he is there waiting for her as well.
Roarke shows them to their seat and tells Gwen to enjoy.
At first, she is a little confused about what is happening, thinking they brought her actual
Allen on the island.
Roarke tells her that on fantasy island, everything will be as real as she makes it.
Meanwhile, Patrick and Melanie talk about their own fantasies.
He tells her that he wants to play soldier because he always wanted to be one, but became
a cop and ended up behind a desk because of an incident.
Melanie's fantasy is revenge on her high-school bully.
She was so bothered by her, that she even had to see a shrink, nick-named Dr. Torture.
Roarke arrives and gives her the instructions for her fantasy so Melanie goes to an elevator
that takes her down to a control room.
Melanie sees a flashing red light and pushes the button, her bully Sloane is revealed strapped
to a chair.
She thinks Sloane is a hologram and gets ready to torture her.
The first button gives Sloane an electric shock and the second pours toilet water on
her.
The third button plays a video of her having an affair and another button posts the video
to Sloan's Facebook.
The next, shows her husband watching it and talking to what is supposed to be Sloane on
the phone.
He says that she's been missing for two days prompting Melanie to realize that it's actually
Sloane.
Simultaneously, Roarke drives Patrick to his fantasy, leaving him in the middle of the
island.
Later, Patrick is in a military uniform, walking aimlessly when Damon grabs him and tells him
that people die there, then vanishes as soldiers appear behind Patrick.
They suspect his story and decide to take him back to their commanding officer.
The two brothers sit next to the pool when Brax confesses that he feels like an inconvenience
in his brother's life, though JD thinks otherwise.
Gwen is in the restaurant with Allen when he proposes to her again and this time she
accepts.
JD and Brax put on the same outfit and explore their mansion, finding a panic room and wondering
if all rich people have panic rooms in their mansions.
Next, they discover that they also have an armory, where they find all kinds of weapons,
guns, and grenades.
They go to the beach to play with the grenades and when they fire one in the ocean, Patrick
and the soldiers hear it on the other side of the island.
The soldiers bring Patrick back to their commanding officer and when he sees him he freaks out,
calling out to Roarke that it isn't what he asked for.
The soldier reads his dog tags and asks why his own name is on them.
Suddenly, enemy combatants fire on them, which terrifies Patrick, then he gets shot and faints.
In Melanie's fantasy, Dr. Torture walks into the room with Sloan.
She doesn't want him to hurt her, so Melanie grabs the intercom and tells him what to do
because she realized how to stop him.
She tells him to cut off a finger from her right hand and when he grabs her, Melanie
shocks him, then pours the water on him and electrocutes him.
Next, she breaks the glass and releases Sloane, lying to her that she was also kidnaped.
The women escape into the jungle.
JD and Brax drink with the models when they get attacked by men in masks so they lead
the models into the panic room and Brax calls Mr. Roark but gets no help from him.
The door to the panic room shuts as the masked men get inside the house and then into the
bedroom.
Meanwhile, Melanie and Sloan are trying to get to the shore when Dr. Torture shows up
and tries to kill Sloane.
Damon saves her from the fantasy and tells them both to follow him.
Simultaneously, Gwen has a nightmare about the burned man grabbing her, but she wakes
up next to Allen.
Patrick has a nightmare about the same man, then wakes up surrounded by the soldiers.
The commanding officer pulls him aside to talk to him about his dog tags and the photo
he found in his wallet.
Patrick tells him that the boy with him in the photo is him at 9 years old.
The soldier wants to know what's happening when Patrick explains that he's actually his
son and tells him that they're on the magical island that granted his deepest wish, not
to be a soldier, but to see his father again.
Patrick tells him that he died a hero when he was just a boy.
The following morning, Gwen goes to talk to Roark.
He tells her that she and Allen have been married for 5 years and they have a daughter,
Lila.
Suddenly, Gwen has new memories about her daughter and Roark tells her that the island
is doing that.
He says that many years ago he heard about the island where everything is possible and
made his wife search for it with him, but since she died before they arrived, he wished
for her to come back when he came there.
Roark tells her to live the life the island has granted her so she joins her new family.
Patrick's dad grabs him and tells him that he wants to get him out of there because he
believes him.
Patrick thinks that he shouldn't change what happened and stay to save his men or he'll
regret it forever like he did when he didn't save someone.
His dad doesn't want to listen so he battles with him until Patrick makes him stay.
Meanwhile, the brothers are held by the masked men who don't believe their story about the
island and keep asking where their cash and drugs are.
The main guy threatens JD so he lies that it's in the armory, unfortunately, the main
guy makes him stay behind and takes Brax with him.
Gwen plays with her daughter on the beach and tells Allen that this is everything she
ever wanted, but that she doesn't deserve it.
She kisses him and says goodbye, then goes to talk to Roark again who rejects her request
for another fantasy.
Damon takes the girls into a cave and as they walk deeper inside, something appears behind
Sloane.
The group walks through a flooded part of the cave and Melanie has a vision of the burned
man.
They get to the center of the cave with some kind of magic rock showing them their secret
desires.
Damon tells them that he found the place when a client sent him to find out what it was,
but Roarke trapped him there because he's evil.
He has a plan to expose him as the monster he is, so he gives Melanie a canteen filled
with water from the magic spring and tells her to get it out of there.
Damon gives her the number of a pilot that will come and get them, but in the process
reveals the Melanie was a guest at the island.
She tries to deny it, but her fantasy plays out in the rock.
Suddenly, Sloane remembers who she is and they argue until Melanie tells Damon to get
them to the hotel and off the island.
Gwen finds Julia and tells her that she wants a new fantasy because her biggest regret is
someone dying because of her in a fire.
She begs Julia to help and she tells her that she doesn't want a new fantasy, but her true
fantasy.
Gwen storms Roark's office and confronts him with what Julia told her, saying that he misled
her because he didn't give her the do-over she actually wanted.
Roark agrees and she leaves her wedding band, saying that it's what she needs to do, then
proceeds to the door.
Gwen finds her apartment building on the other side and runs to her place, only to find it
already on fire, when her neighbor calls out for help from the apartment above.
She runs towards his place and sees JD and Brax on the stairwell.
Gwen tries to open her neighbor's door and when she can't she goes to get help when she
runs into Patrick.
He's too afraid to help and tells her to wait for the fire department, but she runs in regardless
and tries to find a tool to break the door down when she collapses from the smoke.
Meanwhile, Brax takes the men through the garage and distracts them to get to the armory.
He shoots them with a giant shotgun through the closed door.
The girls and Damon hear the gunfire and the two begin to bicker when he tells them to
grow up and realize that revenge isn't going to change anything.
Suddenly, Dr. Torture attacks him, then Sloane, and they all struggle to get him away, but
in the end, Damon pushes him over a cliff and falls together with him.
Melanie grabs his map and they head to the mansion.
In the meantime, Patrick's dad tells him to stay and take watch as he and his men enter
JD's and Brax's place.
Brax comes out of the armory with an activated grenade and makes the men drop their weapons,
then puts on a mask so the one guarding his brother won't know who he is.
The soldiers enter the mansion, but Patrick sees Brax taking the masked men to the den
with the grenade in his hand.
He thinks that will be the grenade that will kill his dad, so he sneaks up to Brax and
tells him to turn around, but he recognizes him and takes the mask off, asking Patrick
what he's doing in his fantasy.
The main guy grabs the grenade and the other one fights with Patrick, when his gun goes
off, prompting the man that's guarding JD to look.
The soldiers kill him and enter inside, saving Patrick and the models.
Brax is fighting with the main guy for the grenade and Patrick the other one for the
gun when the soldiers show up and the main guy gets ready to throw the grenade at them
when Patrick shoots him and Brax manages to grab the grenade before it falls.
They're all happy because they won when JD gets shot, prompting all of them to start
retreating.
Almost all of the soldiers die in the fight, including Patrick's dad, but Patrick and Brax
manage to escape.
Simultaneously, Melanie finally confesses to Sloane that she's the reason she's there,
and then she realizes that they can call her husband and give him the number of the pilot,
instead of going to the hotel.
He agrees to help them.
At the same time, Julia pulls Gwen out of the burning apartment, alive.
Patrick and Brax find Melanie and Sloane in the control room, then they all come up into
the hotel only to be stopped from getting to the dock by Roarke.
Suddenly, Gwen walks in and tells them that she figured out they were only a part of someone
else's fantasy because of her neighbor, Nick.
They were all connected to Nick and what happened to him that night which would make the fantasy
they are in a big revenge fantasy.
Roarke confirms it but tells them they all have to die in return for Nick's death.
Suddenly, they hear the plane and run out to the dock, but when they all arrive there
the plane gets taken down by the masked men.
The group escapes and regroups in the jungle, realizing that the only way to stop the fantasies
is to destroy the spring in the cave with a grenade.
The moment they get into the cave they split up and begin experiencing weird things.
Patrick gets attacked and pulled under the water.
When he pulls himself out, a zombified version of his dad comes after him and they begin
to struggle until he strangles him.
Patrick gets out of the water and Melanie stabs him.
Sloane sees her doppelganger, who acts the way she did in high school, but Sloane tells
her that she will never be her again when she gets attacked by Dr. Torture.
Brax runs into JD, who tells him that he should have died instead when his eyes start tearing
black goo.
Gwen sees her daughter and she takes her to Nick.
He confronts her for leaving him to die and she tries to apologize when she hears Patrick
scream.
She finds Brax and suddenly Melanie appears explaining that the revenge fantasy was hers.
Apparently, she orchestrated the whole revenge fantasy on the island because she had one
really good date with Nick, but he died the night they were supposed to have their second
one.
Melanie confronts all of them for their participation in Nick's untimely death and her despair.
Sloane manages to distract her just long enough so Gwen can take her knife and Brax can grab
the grenade.
They finally reach the spring when Mr. Roark appears, he steals back the grenade and tells
them that he's trapped on the island so he can have his wife, Julia forever.
She manifests on the island every day not knowing who he is because he imagined her
like the day they met.
Gwen pleads with him to help them, but Melanie shows up and he says that the fantasy must
play out to its natural conclusion and throws the grenade in the spring.
Julia waits for him outside and convinces him to do the right thing, so when he comes
back he tells the rest how they can save themselves.
Patrick is still alive and willing to sacrifice himself for the others, but Sloane is the
only one that didn't get a fantasy, so she drinks the water from the spring and wishes
for Melanie and Nick to be together forever.
Nick grabs Melanie and pulls her back into the spring, but she comes right back up again
and throws the grenade at them.
Patrick jumps on it to save them.
The next day, Gwen, Brax, and Sloane meet in the hotel lobby where Roarke tells them
that Patrick saved them, dying as a hero.
They prepare to leave and Gwen asks him what will happen to him, to which he replies that
he will stay and protect the island, living without regret.
Roarke approaches Brax and tells him that technically he was a part of his brother's
fantasy which means he has one left.
Brax says that he wants his brother alive, but for that to last, he would need to stay
there forever.
Gwen and Sloane get on the plane and when it begins the take-off procedure, they see
JD on the plane, who tells them that he won't be coming
and waves goodbye to his brother as the plane leaves.