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Makes NO SENSE(help?)=== (SPOILER CITY!!!)


Okay I have seen all the movies and this one is NOT the worst but IS the oddest to say the least. I was curious if someone could help clear up some things.


1. HOW does she wake the Djinn?
I mean she ONLY touches the stone. She doesn't rub it or leave any "life force"(breath- 3rd movie) on it at all. ESSENTIALLY the lawyer would be the Waker because he has more contact with it then she does and actually rubs it. I'm thinking the essential task at expectation is being a female...maybe the fire opal is a menstruation metaphor and the djinn is a representation of sexual desires.

2. Granted the script in these types of movies is cheesy(at best) and horrid(at worst) but the writing/acting was the worst part of this movie for me. (3rd one lacked all around, but kept with the IDEA of WishMaster). Explain these:

A. Girl gets out of shower and AFTER trying to get close to her boyfriend...acts SHOCKED that he's gawking at her naked body. What was that about? Why not embrace his pervy desires?

B. At breakfast the boyfriend CLEARLY shows his jealousy of the lawyer YET she wears something sheer to go see the lawyer. Sheer SOMEWHAT has a sexual energy no matter what is under it(or not). I mean she skips out on trying to TALK and WORK with her boyfriend to go be with the lawyer. Granted she must be emotionally drained but she doesn't seem like she wants to WORK on her relationship.

C. When Doug is butchering his nose, tongue, etc...the acting by his staff is so horrid. They are like "hey, whatcha doin?..do you want us to stop you or get you a latte?" Its something right out of high school theater. I mean is there anything keeping them from going into the office? Is it just me or are they miming the hitting of the wall?

D. The lawsuit gets resolved, Sam gets a check for 10M, and all he can do is act like his girlfriend brought him a cold breakfast sandwich from McD's? THAT MAKES NO SENSE!!!!

E. During the "Kiss Wish" scene... why is it that only the guys go full mouth-on-mouth and the girls just do side cheek? I mean she wished for SOMEBODY...not a JUST a guy....and the guy who kissed his girlfriend did NOT do a side cheek. For (VERY) soft core porn there wasn't any girl on girl. Wish NOT granted!

F. What happened to the pain that was associated with the Djinn granting wishes? I mean WishMaster 1-3 ALL had the women in pain when a wish was granted. In ALL the Djinn was scary and wanted to get those wishes made. Its like this movie should have been called "WishMaster 4: Djinn Gets Lucky" because the ENTIRE movie he was all over this girl. He didn't even bother granting that many wishes.

G. ON the wish note. In the movies that came before the Djinn could refuse a wish(Ex:going back in the stone). However, THIS is the movie where he cannot refuse a wish? He is practically a slave to this wish. In part three the Djinn tortured a girl until the Waker wished. It would have made SO MUCH more sense if they went FULL 'Beauty and the Beast' and MADE it a plot point for him to find a woman to love him and bring his brothers in through conception or sacrifice. I mean it would have been more interesting if it wasn't necessarily the Waker.

Final Thought: THE WISH(Sam made)

WHY NOT JUST WISH TO NOT HAVE HAD THE ACCIDENT IN THE FIRST PLACE??????I mean if the accident didn't happen- then the lawyer wouldn't have came into the picture- he wouldn't have given her the box with the stone- and THUS the Djinn and his damage would have NOT happened. Granted it goes back to the plot of the first movie, but in this case that REALLY would have been THE BEST ending.

Thoughts?

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I actually thought the fourth movie had the Djinn act in the most realistic way of all the movies, comparatively. He exercises his intentions stealthily around the waker, and seeks/grants her wishes subtly. He never shows his true form until absolutely necessary. And while nobody can come close to Divoff, the lawyer was at least better than the teacher actor in the 3rd movie, which was the worst of them all. In fact the lawyer kind of reminded me of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.

But I agree with all your points, I was confused at the same things. The way the Djinn acts and is wakened is entirely contradictory to every other movie. In the third movie, all a guy has to say is "blow me" and this counts as a wish. The girls 3rd wish could have just been "I'd like another glass of wine" or something to that effect and that SHOULD count as a wish and hell would be unleashed on earth. Instead he waits (more patiently than ever before) until she says "I wish" and makes a very direct specific wish.

Also in all the other movies, if the Djinn can't grant a wish, he would simply torture them into making another one.

There are many other small gripes I have with this movie. After the second half of the movie things get juvenile again, and it takes us back to the third movie with angels and plastic toy swords and horribly choreographed sword fights. Not to mention the lack of creative kills (at least 4 characters are just killed with swords), the boyfriend's insufferable annoying attitude, and that annoying rock music playing to beginning of the movie which was just a softcore porn clip.

It's funny how they make the whole movie about how "love is more than just great sex" meanwhile the ONLY backstory into the couple's relationship is... a silent sex scene. Brilliant.

"Hep" - Skippy

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