Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell
The evil Djinn is back at again, this time wreaking havoc on the students of Illinois' Baxter University. His victim is a beautiful, innocent and studious teenage girl named Diana Collins who accidentally opened up the Djinn's tomb and released him.
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- Cast:
- Jason Connery , A.J. Cook , Tobias Mehler , Louisette Geiss , Aaron Smolinski , Daniella Evangelista , Emmanuelle Vaugier
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The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Let's not pull any punches here, this movie is just absolutely, without a doubt, completely and utterly terrible...but that's why it is fun to watch! Everything about this movie is poorly done. The acting is awful, I'm not entirely sure there's a script, the production doesn't really understand the concept of "irony" and how to use people's wishes against them in a way that actually makes sense and the special effects are an endless source of unintentionally comedy.It's not like this franchise had any dignity but this one takes the series to a new low. But with all the bad going on in this movie it becomes enjoyable to watch...if only to see how bad it can get.
The Wishmaster series continues its descent into the depths of direct to video hell, as the movies got cheaper and less fun.The premise of this movie is that the Gem containing the Djinn is now found in cheap box instead of a nice statue of Ahura-Mazda. Also lost in the budget cutting was Andrew Divoff, the guy who gave the Wishmaster all his menace in the previous two films.In this one, the Wishmaster is released by yet another troubled hot chick. (Seriously, I guess if a guy ever released the Wishmaster, the movie would be over in ten minutes after he wished for a keg, a million bucks and some hot babes!) While he is killing time, the new Wishmaster clumsily bullies his victims into making foolish wishes. (Again, Divoff's version was much more sinister in his manipulations.) I'm guessing they filmed this on a real college campus, because they have a lot of footage of people running about doing that setting.The plot also involves invoking the Archangel Michael to help defeat the Wishmaster by bringing a sword that can kill it. Or something. Just tricking it with a cleverly worded third wish wasn't going to cut it anymore.
Then this is an OK movie. Not horrible to watch, several close ups of A.J.'s eyes. Even a nipply shot at the start. All in all not a bad way to spend a few minutes looking at her. Oh yeah, there's some bad guy monster thingy too. She sets it free? by accident and he becomes obsessed with her. Well really, who wouldn't be immediately smitten with Miss A.J.? The plot was thin-ish. Acting was, erm, just OK. BUT we get to see A.J. a whole lot! :) The rest of what was in here was fluff. The SFX were just OK, not gross or believable. There was some nudity but not from our heroine. I'd watch it again. In a dark room just to see A.J. doing her thing... looking AWESOME! :)
I cannot believe what they have done to one of my favorite horror movies. It is all because of one problem too.... They didn't have Andrew Divoff playing the djinn, I thought it wouldn't be too bad at first but when i saw the djinn and he started talking i thought this movie was a complete joke. He sounded nothing like him, he didn't talk like him, and he also didn't even look like him. If somewhere it was mentioned that he was a different djinn I would have actually sorta liked the movie, but trying to pass this guy off as the original, scary, distinct-voiced djinn is an insult to Wishmaster. If you rent this movie then please brace yourself for a movie that is not worthy of the name Wishmaster. I have rented both 3 and 4 today and i have not seen 4 yet but i expect the worst. The thing that bugged me the most about the entire movie was the voice of the actor who played the djinn, I hoped for someone who could at least act like or sound like Divoff but i guess no one could pull that off so my advice is to stick with 1 and 2. The only reason you may want to watch 3 and 4 is to complete the story.