Wishmaster 4 - Die Prophezeiung erfüllt sich

This film essentially begins with an attractive woman by the name of "Lisa" (Tara Spencer-Nairn) voluntarily taking care of her boyfriend "Sam" (Jason Thompson) after he suffers from a motorcycle accident which has left him paralyzed from the waist down. To that effect, it's during this time that a mutual friend named "Steven Verdel" (Michael Trucco) agrees to lend his services as their attorney and files a civil lawsuit on their behalf. As time goes on, Steven gradually falls in love with her which ultimately leads to him giving her a gift that he had purchased a little while earlier. What he doesn't realize, however, is that the gift just happened to have the jewel which contains the essence of an evil "Djinn" (played by both John Novak and Michael Trucco) who is somehow brought back to life once Sam puts the jewel in his office safe. Quite frankly, I'm not sure how this action served as a catalyst, but once revived, the evil djinn quickly goes about seeking to fulfill three wishes from Lisa which will usher in Armageddon upon the entire world. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just that, unlike the first three movies in this series in which the Djinn desperately tries to obtain the third wish from his main victim, he actually accomplishes his primary objective in this one. An interesting step forward, in my opinion. Unfortunately, the special effects were clearly inadequate when other supernatural creatures were introduced, and things went downhill fast from that point. That being said, although this film wasn't quite as bad as its immediate predecessor, it still wasn't nearly as good as it could have been, and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.

Since the third wish is never granted, or the Djinn dies before, I thought that this would be awesome because we finally get to see what happens when the prophecy is fulfilled. But I was so wrong. The prophecy wasn't even fulfilled, so the title is pretty much wrong.

Out of 90 minutes, this has about 15 of unnecessary sex scenes which don't really add anything to the story. Not that I hated it, but it just wasn't needed and the time could've been spent on the story, like the Hunter thing, which I had no idea from where and why he came.

Another bad thing was the special effects. They were just awful. I mean, this movie was made 4-5 years ago and it was like watching an 80s horror flick. Nightmare on Elm Street had better special effects than this load of rubbish.

Just stay away from this horrible movie. If you were unlucky enough to waste money on renting the third, don't make an even worse mistake.

This film is a far better example of a sequel than a lot of other straight to video sequels. Although this is not "Citizen Kane" by any means it is an entertaining and well acted movie, in most respects. Personally, i was impressed by the performance of Michael Trucco playing the human face of the Djinn. His voice in several scenes was an interesting tribute to Andrew Divoff. His performance far surpasses Chris Connery from the third installment. The female lead is sexy, and not untalented. And for the first time since the original, the story is different. What people fail to realize is this is an anthology film series, the others who reviewed this flick keep comparing John Novak's Djinn to Andrew Divoff's original performance. He is not the same Djinn, he is not meant to be the same Djinn. The Djinn both singular and plural are a race of beings created after the angels but before man. There are more than one of them out there. Another factor to consider is that this is the fourth installment of the series, as a writer, director and actor in this film, you inherit three films worth of storyline and baggage, and with the shrunken budget, you have very little to work with. The story has originality, the film is fast paced, it contains some humor and interesting wish fullfillment, and it has new characters and a new dimension to the Djinn mystique. It's a good flick, and i suggest it to all Wishmaster fans. Just keep an open mind.

There are so many things wrong with this film it's hard to even begin. The first two Wishmaster films were quite good, the third was sub-par, but still not terrible. I was thinking maybe there was hope that this one would be somewhere online with the first two films. Was i ever wrong, this one is truly pathetic even as far as sequels go. The first scene is a graphic sex scene, and then they play some MTV "Happy Song" ... first bad move for a horror movie, trendy pop songs ruin the whole atmosphere early. The "Demon" voices of the Djinn and the Guardian (or whatever the idiot angel with the sword was) makes it laughable. I mean, they sound like childish attempts at making normal vocals into demonic vocals. In closing, the first third hour of the movie is the worst, the second third of the movie is tolerable, and the last third of the movie is just plain moronic. I'll bet Wes Craven is glad he had nothing to do with this disaster.

It seems John Novak has a better handle on being the Djinn than he did in the previous movie. Wishmaster III was horrible, so I had serious reservations on watching this one. However, it wasn't too bad. Not as good as the first two (Andrew Divoff was amazing), but I quite enjoyed this one. The heroine is nice eye candy and the dialogue isn't too hammy. Even a Djinn can find love!