The Ivory is about a family whose friend visits from far off lands and leaves an ivory horn that is said to grant three wishes. The friend's story is a little too much and it hits on many different metaphysical areas for a film about how choices can come back to bite you. Some pet cemetery stuff going on as the new owners of the horn ask for money and the money turns winds up being recompense for their son's death. Then they wish for the son to come back to life and he starts knocking on the door. Why they didn't wish for him to come back as he was before he died, I'll never know. They did some strange editing during an argument where the camera kept flipping between the same two scenes about 20 times, way too much. The acting was good and the dialog was good a solid B+ film.
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Two thumbs down and I only have one hand
mckissack3 June 2007
Warning: Spoilers
The only reason I kept watching was because I was guessing at everything that would happen and of course IT DID. My wife and children (they rented the movie) wanted to end it before it was over but I kept expecting some kind of surprise. It has to be one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Again, as in the previous post... why didn't they wish for their son to come back as he was when alive. Also, who would only wish for 25K if they had 3 wishes? The acting was below horrible and the story was only horrible... the story actually had potential if a few twists would have been thrown in and a completely different set of actors were used (although I am sure that some of the fault of the acting was with the director). You could see everything coming from a mile away. Good lord man.. with all the screenplays and wanna be directors out there, how could they actually release this mess?
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