Wish Upon
A teenage girl discovers a box with magical powers, but those powers comes with a deadly price.
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- Cast:
- Joey King , Ryan Phillippe , Ki Hong Lee , Mitchell Slaggert , Shannon Purser , Sydney Park , Elisabeth Röhm
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It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
Wish Upon is a 2017 horror filmsplot: Claire Shannon (Joey King) is a girl who is always bullied in her school, she has a trash picker father. Until one day his father found a mysterious music box, it turned out that the music box was not an ordinary music box, he had magical powers, he would take 7 requests, Clare's life changed instantly, but he had to pay it expensive ... My personal rate: 5 / 10
WISH UPON is yet another high school horror flick with an entirely predictable storyline that you'll have seen play out a million times before in a million similar ways. A typical mildly obnoxious protagonist - who has no likeable element to her personality whatsoever - comes into possession of an ancient magical device which will grant her seven wishes. They do come true, but with macabre results. This is the kind of teen friendly fare that I generally dislike watching, with cheesy death scenes that feel like weak imitations of the ones in the FINAL DESTINATION franchise and a general generic and predictable feel. I was amused to see Ryan Philippe looking middle aged and playing the protagonist's father.
Honestly I knew nothing about this movie before I watched and I was sadly uninmpressed. The main character was uninteresting and made extremely poor decisions. The side plots made absolutely no sense. The only good thing about the movie is how it ends.
The most recent incarnation of the classic Djinni premise, though this one eschews that entirely in favor of a magic Chinese box with a backstory all its own not involving Djinn. I'm not sure why the locality and myth had to change or where this story even comes from - it's not nearly interesting enough to warrant changing up the formula and it's not like anyone cares all that much anyway. Just get to the mangling of wishes already!Then again, as a result of the changing of the mythology, there are now 7(!) wishes to be granted - 4 more for your guilty watching pleasure. Except that this time, wishes aren't always twisted around. They're applied strongly but hardly in a completely backwards way. The twist is that someone dies every time a wish is granted. That's it. It takes a lot of the fun out of the classic granted wishes premise. The PG-13 rating neuters it (I watched it unrated but it still felt PG- 13). It's just alright with a solid, interesting cast led by the natural and unassuming Joey King, an unrecognizable Ryan Phillippe and Sherilyn Fenn just for shits.