During a art heist, female thief Morgana accidently awakens the Djinn. The Djinn (in the shape of a human) takes credit for the crime and lets himself go to prison in order to collect 1001 souls. In there he twist the prisoners wishes and gets more and more souls before the final 3 wishes that are needed from the one who woke him. Now Morgana together with a young priest has to find a way to stop the Djinn from taking over the earth, killing all of mankind.
It was a long time ago since saw this movie before watching it again now. 7 years I guess and I thought I remembered everything and that it was a good sequel to the original Wishmaster. Well, apparently I didn't remember as much as I thought I did, and unfortunately it didn't come out looking very good in the end. Why I had to give this movie such a low rating is because the utterly crappy ending which is horrible indeed. I watched this movie last night and after that I had nightmares, not because the movie was scary but because the ending sucked so much. But the movie still has some good stuff in it so don't diss it just yet.
The plot is just plain stupid, but you're not watching a movie like this for the plot. Just like in the first movie, the Djinn is awakened and has to give three wishes to the one who woke him. This time it's a girl named Morgana who woke the Djinn when she and her boyfriend were robbing some museum. There's actually a pretty cool scene very early on in the movie when we get to see the Djinn for the first time. He has a big head, four very long legs and looks like some kind of creature spider. Morgana's boyfriend is killed and Morgana flees the scene before the cops arrive, and when they do arrive they arrest the Djinn, again portayed by Andrew Divoff.
The Djinn is sent to prison and starts making prisoners wish for things in order to collect 1001 souls before he has to confront Morgana and get the three final wishes from her. Morgana becomes more aware of that something's wrong and keeps having nightmares and visions of the Djinn, telling her to fulfill the prophecy. She seeks help from an old boyfriend who's now a priest and together they try to find a way to stop the Djinn. I hate this priest guy, he just so righteous (well he's a priest) but he's also such a wuss and just extremely irritaing to watch and to listen to.
The whole prison thing is fairly interesting though, everyone wants something in there and it's the perfect place for the Djinn to have people making wishes. Also the whole prison enviroment adds a good feel to the movie itself. Although, the Djinn can't seem to get enough souls there so later on he heads for a casino in Las Vegas to gather even more souls. At the casino chaos soon takes over and we get a really cool long scene of people dying in different ways in there.
There's actually a whole lot of gore in the movie and that's a big plus and something that makes it a little more worth watching. We actually get to see a lot of gore and guts and it's well done and fun to watch. But just like in the first movie, there are a number of computer generated effects that are not as fun to watch. While some of them being good, some of them are just horrible but overall it's not a good thing. The acting is even worse than in the first one but it's still somewhat ok for this type of movie.
Wishmaster 2 is extremely similar to the first movie, there's really nothing new here and it's just as predictable as the first flick. Although it's somewhat entertaining and has some really cool gory scenes in it, but with an ending that kinda manages to ruin the overall experience. It's not extremely bad but it's still pretty far from being good.
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MOVIE YEAR: 1999
DIRECTOR: Jack Sholder
WRITING CREDITS: Peter Atkins, Jack Sholder
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Andrew Divoff, Paul Johansson, Holly Fields
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 96 min
RATING: 3/10
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