the premise of Wish is that a wizard came up with a kingdom where he protects everyone and provides for them, but to join, you have to give him your deepest, most closely-held wish, which is instantiated as a magic orb that the wizard promises to protect, and maybe even one day fulfill. you forget what your wish is as soon as you hand it over and you do not make any progress towards it during your time there.

the protagonist discovers within the first 20 minutes that this is a bad thing because it turns out the wizard won't necessarily grant your wish if he doesn't want to. which I feel like was implicit given the terms and conditions that people signed up for, but here we are.

what happens then an hour and 15 minutes of vague "we have to resist! we can win if we work together!" hand-wringing despite the fact that it does not work until it does. not a single character has any real personality or growth or even impetus beyond a vague sense of betrayal from the handsome overlord - played entertainingly by Chris Pine as an evil narcissus who is as flat as everyone else.

everything comes together in the end because of course it does, despite no one really having any talent or pathos or reason to win beyond the fact that they want to - and really, isn't that what a Wish is? just a desire to do something without having done anything to earn it?