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* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Trent and Maddox may have survived and put a stop to the scientists using the beach to test experimental medicine they are in their 50s, and might get depressed over their inability to live functional lives, [[DrivenToSuicide possibly cutting their lives short]].]]

* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Trent and Maddox may have survived and put a stop to the scientists using the beach to test experimental medicine. However, they are in their 50s, and might get depressed over their inability to live functional lives, [[DrivenToSuicide possibly cutting their lives short]].]]

* ParanoiaFuel: You go on a vacation to what seems like a normal beach. Then you rapidly age and couldn't get out. Until you die in a matter of hours. [[spoiler:''Then'' it turns out the resort had sent you there to test experimental medicine on your medical condition.]] Good luck on going back to your favorite beach.

* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Trent and Maddox may have survived and put a stop to the scientists using the beach to test experimental medicine. But they are in their 50s, and they might soon get depressed over their inability to live normal lives, possibility even [[DrivenToSuicide cutting their lives short]] to reunite with their parents.]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: [[spoiler: Prisca falls under this when you look at the scope of her situation. She learned not too long ago that she was ill with a brain tumor. So what does this married woman with a rather decent husband do? Have an affair with someone else as if there's literally no tomorrow. [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse No amount of illness justifies]] cheating on your spouse, be it something as small as a cold or something as big as what Prisca has.]]
** This is only assuming [[spoiler: Prisca cheating on her husband is meant to be seen as ''sympathetic''.]]

** The fact that much of the film's questionably worded dialogue ("He's a joke, he's a pretend person!") sounds like something that came out of ''Film/TheRoom'' (or Shyamalan's similarly infamous ''Film/TheHappening''). Guy and Prisca's accents don't help.

* EndingFatigue: [[spoiler: After Trent and Maddox seemingly drown, there's a scene revealing the secret lab, exposition of the motivations behind the villains and a seemingly HereWeGoAgain moment featuring another family. Then Trent and Maddox turn out to be alive, the cop who was staying at the resort is informed about the actions of the lab and there is a flashback showing Trent and Maddox escaping through the coral reef, with a cut to black. Then, there is one final scene of the two on a helicopter being taken away, before finally ending]].
* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Trent and Maddox may have survived and put a stop to the scientists using the beach to test experimental medicine. But they are in their 50s, and they might soon get depressed over their inability to live normal lives, possibility even [[DrivenToSuicide cutting their lives short]] to reunite with their parents.]]

** While preparing for [[spoiler: Trent and Kara's baby, the adults explain to Trent what's going on. Their explanation could be summed up in a nutshell: "...[[BrutalHonesty What you just did is where babies come from]]." Trent can only justify "I know, but I thought you had to do that like ten times!"]]

** [[spoiler: Guy and Prisca, due to literally being OlderAndWiser, realizing that their previous marital issues were trivial in the grand scheme. It's an awfully poignant scene, but it's one of the few (if not only) gentler moments of the story. They make peace before they both pass away moments from each other.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: The original graphic novel was going to have a twist ending, but then the creators decided it would be better to never explain the aging [[spoiler:and have no one be able to escape]]. Then the film adaptation is done by a director well known for big twist endings, [[spoiler: who indeed creates a new twist ending for why the characters are on the beach, although the cause of the aging is still left ambiguous]]. Granted, [[spoiler:it's more of an explanation than an outright twist, given the unnecessarily gigantic bag of food makes clear early on that the hotel staff is well aware of what happens to people on the beach.]]
* MagnificentBastard: [[spoiler: The unnamed BigBad is a pharmaceutical executive posing as the manager of a high-class island resort. Years earlier, his team of researchers discovered a beach surrounded by mysterious rocks that produced radiation which accelerated the cell life cycle thousands of times over. Realizing that this could be used to run ultra-rapid studies on cures for notorious diseases, he founded his sham hotel to lure people to the island, with any guests with chronic illnesses sent to the beach for the drug tests, with the unfortunate side effect that the radiation causes them to inevitably die of old age. His studies have likely killed hundreds, but he takes no pride in that fact, [[WellIntentionedExtremist believing that his victims should be honored as martyrs to scientific breakthroughs that could save untold millions]]]].

** Mid-Size Sedan’s DullSurprise delivery of “oh damn” when his female companion’s body is discovered, which is out of place in what is meant to be a tense scene.

** One of the most infamous lines of the movie is [[CaptainObvious "It's rust! It acts like poison when it gets into your bloodstream!"]], which Prisca says as the audience sees [[spoiler: Charles being overcome with a septic infection after being stabbed with a rusty knife]]. The on-the-nose exposition mixed with her strangely enthusiastic delivery as a man literally ''dies'' right in front of her has garnered the scene endless mockery.

** “I’M JARIN!!!”. Jarin just sounds desperate to have people remember who he is.

* ParanoiaFuel: You go on a vacation to what seems like a normal beach. Then you rapidly age and couldn’t get out. Until you die in a matter of hours. [[spoiler: ''Then'' it turns out the resort had sent you there to test experimental medicine on your medical condition.]] Good luck on going back to your favorite beach.
* {{Squick}}: Teenage Trent and Kara have sex and Kara gets pregnant. They’re ''six years old'' but in the bodies of adolescents due to the beach aging them, causing their hormones to come early.

* TheWoobie: Most of the cast, given that they experience accelerated aging that also causes their painful medical conditions to run rampant. Even the survivors are left knowing that they've lost both loved ones and the best years of their lives. The standout may be Kara, who [[spoiler:loses her grandmother early on, watches her dad go crazy, gets pregnant without knowing what's happening, gives birth to a child who quickly dies, and then suffers a DisneyVillainDeath while trying to get help. And all of this happens while she's mentally six-years-old.]]

** The premise: getting trapped in a beach that causes you to rapidly age several years within hours. There's an barrier that prevents people from leaving, making it a slow death they can't escape.;

** The premise: getting trapped in a beach that causes you to rapidly age several years within hours. There's an barrier that prevents people from leaving, making it an slow death they can't escape.;

* WinBackTheCrowd: While not exactly the best-reviewed film of Shymalan's career, the film largely pleased viewers who wanted to see Shyamalan ([[Film/TheVisit again]]) return to his thriller roots after being sidetracked by the poorly-received superhero drama of ''Film/{{Glass|2019}}''.

* SoBadItsGood: This movie is sometimes included among the likes of ''Film/TheHappening'' and ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' in Shyamalan's infamous collection of entertainingly awkward flicks. Most of the hilarity comes from the incredibly unrealistic ways characters talk and (over/under)react to one another (not helped by some rather questionable cinematography, particularly concerning the camera angles), which is how most of the film goes.

* SoBadItsGood: This movie is sometimes included among the likes of ''Film/TheHappening'' and ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' in Shyamalan's infamous collection of entertainingly awkward flicks. Most of the hilarity comes from the incredibly unrealistic ways characters talk and (over/under)react to one another (not helped by some questionable cinematography, particularly concerning the camera angles), which is how most of the film goes.

* SoBadItsGood: This movie is sometimes included among the likes of ''Film/TheHappening'' and ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' in Shyamalan's infamous collection of entertainingly awkward flicks. Most of the hilarity comes from the incredibly unrealistic ways characters talk and (over/under)react to one another.

* SoBadItsGood: This movie tends to be included among the likes of ''Film/TheHappening'' and ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' in Shyamalan's infamous collection of entertainingly awkward flicks. Most of the hilarity comes from the incredibly unrealistic ways characters talk and (over/under)react to one another.

* SoBadItsGood: Creator/DougWalker feels this way about the movie.
** This movie tends to be included among the likes of ''Film/TheHappening'' and ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' in Shyamalan's infamous collection of entertainingly awkward flicks. Most of the hilarity comes from the incredibly unrealistic ways characters talk and (over/under)react to one another.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Fans of the graphic novel weren't happy with the film tacking on an entirely new ending, [[spoiler:which overly explains what was meant to simply be a metaphorical fable about fear of aging, and even tries to give some kind of upbeat catharsis to a story it doesn't fit at all]]. As mentioned in HilariousInHindsight above, there are even fans who think the film could have used [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot whatever ending was originally planned for the graphic novel instead]].

* SoBadItsGood: This movie tends to be included among the likes of ''Film/TheHappening'' and ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' in Shyamalan's infamous collection of entertainingly awkward flicks. Most of the hilarity comes from the incredibly unrealistic ways characters talk and (over/under)react to one another.

* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Trent and Maddox may have survived and put a stop to the scientists using the beach to test experimental medicine. But they are in their 50s, and it won’t be easy having normal lives, with around three decades taken away, limited education, their parents dead, and their mental age still being of children, which they might soon get depressed over as they become a few years older.]]

* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Trent and Maddox may had survived and put a stop to the scientists using the beach to test experimental medicine. But they are in their 50s, and it won’t be easy having normal lives, with around three decades taken away, limited education, and their mental age still being of children.]]

* SoBadItsGood: This movie tends to be included among the likes of ''Film/TheHappening'' and ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' in Shyamalan's infamous collection of entertainingly awkward flicks. Most of the hilarity comes from the incredibly unrealistic ways characters talk and react to one another.

* SoBadItsGood: This movie tends to be included among the likes of ''Film/TheHappening'' and ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' in Shyamalan's infamous collection of entertainingly awkward flicks.

** “I’M JAREN!!!”. Jaren just sounds desperate to have people remember who he is.

%% ** “I’M JARIN!!!”

* SoBadItsGood: This movie tends to be included among the likes of ''Film/TheHappening'' and ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' in Shyamalan's infamous collection of entertainingly awkward and confusing flicks.

* SoBadItsGood: This movie tends to be included in the same category as ''Film/TheHappening'' and ''Film/LadyInTheWater'', which describes Shyamalan's infamous collection of awkward, confusing, but still entertainingly bad flicks.