Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies (1999)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 2010
SYNOPSIS: Remember the plot of Wishmaster? That's okay, neither really did the makers of this movie. They totally changed up the djinn's origin event, where its crystal was housed, the sequence of events required to unleash its vengeance upon the world, etc. So none of that's important, I just wanted to gripe about it. Onward!
A group of thieves bungles a museum robbery, but in the process frees the djinn from its crystal which had been hidden in a statue of Ahura Mazda. The djinn takes credit for the robbery, and is sent to prison, where he trades twisted wishes for souls. It suits him. Meanwhile, the surviving thief is having these weird apocalyptic dreams, so she consults her ex-boyfriend (who is now a priest). Good triumphs in the end, but not before a lot of amusing bad things happen to (mostly) bad people. And of course, Andrew Divoff plays the Djinn extremely well ... I'm disappointed that he did not reprise the role for Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell or Wishmaster 4: Holy Crap They Made Another One.
A group of thieves bungles a museum robbery, but in the process frees the djinn from its crystal which had been hidden in a statue of Ahura Mazda. The djinn takes credit for the robbery, and is sent to prison, where he trades twisted wishes for souls. It suits him. Meanwhile, the surviving thief is having these weird apocalyptic dreams, so she consults her ex-boyfriend (who is now a priest). Good triumphs in the end, but not before a lot of amusing bad things happen to (mostly) bad people. And of course, Andrew Divoff plays the Djinn extremely well ... I'm disappointed that he did not reprise the role for Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell or Wishmaster 4: Holy Crap They Made Another One.
Kevin Hogan