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6 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Shouldn't have happened..., 25 October 2001

Author: Reel_entertainment from Camp Crystal Lake

Now after seeing the first 2 'Wishmaster' movies, I had high expectations for this movie. Apparently, they were too high...what hurts this movie, is that it's a total 360 turn from the first 2 movies. What this movie tries to be is a 'Scream' & a "I Know What You Did Last Summer" movie...which isn't saying too much, since they were mere silly movies, than horror movies. Too many just average actors & no pazzazz to it. Jason Connery as the human form of the Djinn isn't convincing. Andrew Divoff, who played the first Djinn character, was great. Such evilness to him. If you're a fan of the first movies, go see it, but don't expect a horror movie.

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9 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
The Djinn Has Placed Himself in a Major Rut of Shame, 30 January 2003

Author: patrick_bateman_77401 from California

I'm going to be frank. When I first saw Wishmaster back in 1997, I was greatly impressed. Here was a brave little film that: a) Stayed away from the teen horror genre (hiring hip teens to be butchered left and right) and hired unknowns. b) Was an homage to the splatterfests that haunted the screens from the late 70s to the early 90s (including the Freddy, Jason, and Pinhead films) c) Had some interesting cameos by some of the biggest horror stars, including Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger), Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees), and Tony Todd (Candyman). All you needed was Doug Bradley (Pinhead) and Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface) and you would have a full house! d) Introduced us to a frightening screen villain that joined the ranks of the classics: the Djinn.

What made the Djinn so eerie was his cruel wish-making and, of course, the voice and presence of Andrew Divoff.

When I first heard that they made Wishmaster 3 and Wishmaster 4 together and with a new actor as the Djinn, I was a bit disappointed. How could they replace the best actor to play the Djinn? It's like replacing Doug Bradley and Robert Englund and having Pinhead and Freddy played by Ewan McGregor and Seann William Scott. And when I finally saw Wishmaster 3, my worst fear had come true. I thought that Wishmaster 2 was pretty bad enough, especially with the Djinn design change, but when I saw this one, I was so insulted by it, I started thinking that Wishmaster 2 was a masterpiece.

I had a few main problems with the film.

A) The lame wishes. If the wish was grotesque, it was ridiculous. The exploding heart, grotesque. The professor being ravaged by the demon women, ridiculous.

B) The acting. The actors are talented people, but they acted like they didn't even WANT to be in the movie. A.J. Cook (talented, but bad material), Tobias Mehler (good actor, bad projects (especially that Godforsaken Carrie remake!!!), and Jason Connery (who doesn't seem to have as great an acting capability as his father) just never seem to be believable.

C) The Djinn himself. With Andrew Divoff, even in the most ridiculous scenes imaginable, he always found a way to make the Djinn dark and scary. With John Novak filling his shoes, he's degenerated the Djinn into a second-class jokester (think of Freddy in the later sequels).

D) St. Michael being the Djinn's nemesis? Does this even need to be talked about?

If you want to rent a good horror film, rent either Jeepers Creepers, the original Wishmaster, or Jason X (not 100% horror, but it's much more entertaining), or go to the theaters and see The Ring, Final Destination 2, or Darkness Falls. Just avoid Wishmaster 3: The Sword of Justice (or Beyond the Gates of Hell, whetever the Hell they decide to call it this week) like the plague!

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5 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
bad:yeah pretty crappy, 10 July 2003

Author: canadianmovieman from saskatchewan, canada

what this movie needs is a good screenplay, but no they stuck with this piece of crap. on a review i did before on the movie ripper(good=7/10), i said a movie needed to be bloody, gory and fun, they got the blood and gore they just need fun, and that ruined the whole movie, and it's sad because i'm a fan of a.j. cook and horror movies, this just didn't work, sorry a.j. but i must tell the people to skip it.

Bad=4/10 (sorry a.j.)

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8 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
Beyond the gates of boredom!, 17 February 2004
Author: willywants

For the third time, the evil Wishmaster return with more evil and grotesque to wreck the life of more innocents. This time, his victim is a beautiful, innocent and studious teenage girl named Diana Collins who accidentally opened up the Djinn from his tomb and released him. After the freedom, the Djinn went into a murderous frenzy though her college campus and he is trying to find Diana to fulfill her three wishes. Whilst Diana is in the run, she must endeavor to prevent the Djinn and complete the heavy task to free the entire world from Hell's wrath. Really, really lame. Wishmaster was a pretty decent horror film, but part two was garbage and this...Well, words fail me. The acting is atrocious! John Novak is terrible as the Djinn! How he's starred in so many films I don't know. The gore is plentiful but unconvincing (Done by SOTA effects, there kind of like a poor man's KNB FX. They also did the effects for 'Amityville: Dollhouse')and the Wishmaster himself is looking as fake as ever. A very bad, unwatchable film. Proof that you don't have to go to film school in order to make movies. 1/10.

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3 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
An alright film., 9 February 2007

Author: Rautus from United Kingdom

This was the first Wishmaster film I watched on TV and I liked it, it actually got me into the Wishmaster films. I like Andrew Divoff's performance as the Djinn because he gives him a real creepiness while John Novak gives the Djinn a Freddy type character but I still like it.

The only disappointment was that we don't see the Djinn as much as the previous films but it still doesn't make a really bad film. Jason Connery tries hard to live up to the Djinn's performance when his in human form.

Wishmaster 4 is slightly better than Wishmaster 3 but check this one out if you're looking for something to watch on a night.

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3 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Wishmaster goes to college, 14 February 2004
Author: Dr. Gore (drgore@hotmail.com) from Los Angeles, California

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*

I saw this the other day with a friend of mine. He HATED it. Despised it. There was just something about the Wishmaster that rubbed him the wrong way. I think he may have been too goofy for him. The ending was pretty weak too. I didn't think "Wishmaster 3" was that bad. But I was shouted down with "WOW! That movie sucked! I wish it away!" I had to protect the movie before it was thrown against the wall.

The Wishmaster is released from his prison and goes about being all the demon he can be. He prowls around a college campus looking for the girl who let him out. If he can grant her wishes, the world will be destroyed. Of course it will.

The Wishmaster doesn't play fair with his wishes. No matter what you wish for, you will pay dearly. Even the most innocuous wish will result in an extremely painful death. You can wish for a cute puppy and a little dog will spring out of nowhere and lunge for your throat. But he's so cute! Even if the Wishmaster doesn't ask for a wish and you're just standing around mumbling to yourself, "I wish I had some more money", a gold bar will land on your skull. Didn't see that coming did ya?!

Maybe the movie is trying to say we should stop wishing our lives away. We daydream of a better life and the Wishmaster gives us a fatal reality check. I kind of liked the Wishmaster and his unfair Death Wishes. It worked for me.

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3 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Good and Bad..., 11 November 2001
Author: intenseyes from Texas

Ok I can understand that the movie being different than the first 2 is a little disappointing but I also would like to point out a few things, First....who said it was the same Djin as in the first 2?? Is there not more than one Djin in the history? I came to this conclusion when this gem came out of a box that dated back to the persian empire...If they couldn't get Andrew Divoff to play the Djin again than this is a good way of getting around that... Ok now for the bashing...very campy 80's style movie...shows a lot of tits which the first 2 did nothing of. Bad acting from all concerned in the movie, and there was no emotional tie that connected me to the characters. Only problem I have with the different Djins is this....when researching the legends how can each person only come up with the legend of the Djin they are fighting. I just watched the lecture he gave on the Djins and the Trojan war and am pleased with how he mentioned more than one which proves my point of him not being the Djin from the orginals. So in conclusion...bad acting...not too bad story.

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5 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
The series becomes gradually worse., 15 October 2003

Author: Snake-666 from England

Diana Collins (A.J.Cook – ‘Final Destination 2') unwittingly awakes the malicious Djinn (John Novak) who quickly assumes the identity of college professor Joel Barash (Jason Connery). The Djinn then enters a cat and mouse game with Diana in a bid to persuade her to make three wishes and thus condemning the world to an eternity of suffering.

This second sequel is the first movie in the series not to feature Andrew Divoff in the role of the Djinn. Instead, two people play the role, Connery plays the Djinn in human form and Novak assumes the character of the Djinn in demon form. Connery, to his credit, was not as bad a choice as I had first suspected. He managed to portray the Djinn with almost the right air of malevolence. However, Connery's near-powerful performance was let down by the performances of the rest of the cast. Even A.J. Cook, who put in a fairly good performance two years later in ‘Final Destination 2', really failed to impress as she came off as dry, unenthusiastic and generally monotonous.

The movie itself started off reasonably well enough but eventually degenerated into a tedious and overly dragging example of bad horror filmmaking. The plot became very predictable and the screenplay just did not flow well and left the film with continuous moments of pointless, and forced, dialogue. On top of this the script seemed to show little tangency with the previous instalments and, as with ‘Wishmaster 2', the `rules' of how the Djinn can interact with humans was changed. Also added were some unnecessary and (in many cases) ludicrous plot twists that made ‘Wishmaster 3' all that more difficult to watch. There was however some impressive (and plentiful) gore effects, though these were overshadowed by the overuse of cheap looking and unnecessary CGI. Chris Angel's direction was also of a very low standard as it showed little inspiration or creativity. In fact, the scenes stolen from the previous two instalments were robbed of any darkness that was evident in the other movies.

Overall this is a very poor movie and only just on the same level as the previous instalment. Up to now I have not been a fan of the ‘Wishmaster' franchise, and this movie has done nothing to change my mind. Fans of the original might enjoy this more than I did, though many may not be very accepting of the new Djinn. This movie is not one I would recommend and probably only worth watching if nothing else is on TV. Uninspired, poorly directed and generally dull. My rating for ‘Wishmaster 3: Devil Stone' – 3.5/10.

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6 out of 10 people found the following review useful:
What a load of rubbish, 3 January 2002

Author: filmbuff69007 (filmbuff69007@aol.com)

The fist movie i saw at the cinema and enjoyed the second wasnt as good but the excellent Andrew Divoff made it still worth watching.this third movie does not have the star of the first two movies.its like having freddy played by someone other that Robert Englund.Jason Connery is no match for Divoff.I dare say that Divoff didnt like the script,i know i didnt.the acting was lame the fx even worse.i own the first two on dvd but this rubbish will not grace my dvd shelf.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Very silly direct-to-video action, 16 March 2005
Author: (dj_bassett) from Philadelphia

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

I haven't seen the first couple WISHMASTERS -- apparently they play rather close to the traditional notion of the "supernatural wish that takes an unexpected turn" kind of thing. It's essentially a morality tale. Here, though, the wishes are pretty pro-forma, as are the nasty twists: just an excuse to show a lot of gore. Not a bad amount of gore, at that: the director makes wise use of his budget.

The plot is obvious, the solution to the problem pretty easy to spot early on. The characters are all annoying crybabies, especially the men. There's too many fake scares. The Wishmaster ill-advisedly becomes Sean Connery's son sometime during the proceedings, generally not a good idea as Jason Connery looks like a prematurely balding college professor, not a Demon From Hell. There's some nudity, though, which is good.

Generally not worth paying much for, but if you find it for a couple of dollars, the way I did, you might be amused by it.

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