StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

bartacus1 This easily falls into the 'so bad it's good' category. If you believe in that phenomenon, add this to your list. If not, avoid at all costs - you will hate it.The special effects are out of this world bad, the plot line is super silly. The love story is laughably inappropriate. Divoff plays an amazing creep in this awful romp - he looks like a cross between Phil Hartman and Jim Carrey with his perpetual goofy grin. Some of the deaths in this movie are just hilarious to watch. My favourite thing is the actors' reactions to them, and how the extras in this movie don't seem to notice anything going on around them.That casino scene was just epic.

JoeB131 After a kind of underrated first appearance, the Wishmaster got consigned to Direct to Video Perdition, where he is handled by a less talented director and less talented co-stars.This was before Divoff had the good sense to get off the crazy train, as like every movie monster from Frankenstein to Freddy Krueger, each sequel kind of diminishes you a bit.It's more or less the same plot as the first one, with a smaller budget and less talent.The change is that instead of a kind of nice girl gemologist, the protagonist here is an art thief who frees the Djinn from a different statue of Ahura Mazda, the Persian God of Plot Device. He gets sent to prison, where he kills a bunch of his fellow inmates in ironically themed wishes.It's good point. The actress playing the lead is smoking hot. And lies in bed in her underwear a lot.

GL84 Freeing the dreaded Djinn from inside his prison, the only surviving member of the art-thief group who freed him must stop his rampage through a prison collecting souls which makes him grow stronger before he can inherit the world.This here turned out to be a bit better than the rather routine and run- of-the-mill sequel it could've been. As in the first one, this continues to provide the goods here as well with some cool deaths and some nice gore mainly in the manner in which the wishes from the genie are granted, which are turned into their most malicious and makes for a really fun time here. From the harvesting done here in the prison settings to the encounter with the Russians once freed, this goes through some great gags here of corrupting the wishes exactly like the original where the wishes turned out to cause such vicious, violent deaths from getting pushed through steel jail-cell doors, being skinned alive and having their bodies switching with others after giving their wish to corrupt so there is an ample amount of gore in here, much more so than the first one, and is indeed the goriest one in the series. Also, there's some good stuff here giving this one a lot to like more in the numerous, constant action scenes here which comes along nicely throughout here as the film moves very fast and showcases all sorts of fun scenes here. The opening jewelry robbery is quite nice with the actual stealing and the police intervention capturing the guy, the fine prison riot where he takes over the whole prison, capturing them and imprisoning the two into the interior of the stone where the Djinn holds them in a freakish scenario that's quite impressive, though there's the centerpiece scenes here in the massive, lavish casino as the different games and contraptions get supernaturally charged and begin flying through the air taking them out or even just destroying them outright in even more gory attacks throughout here which makes for a really enjoyable sequence here. By resulting in these grand set-pieces, including the rather freaky visuals that tends to pop-up when he goes for a kill mixed alongside these other scenes, this all comes off really nicely here, and really carries the film. Loaded up with some more dark humor in the quips and some rather impressive facts about their back- story found in the investigation scene, and it manages to overcome its mild flaws somewhat. The main problem with this is the fact that the majority of the film consists of the genie running around granting the wishes that are obviously doomed and the ones who have come before him are clearly knowledgeable of this part, yet there's no reason to continually feature scenes showing them completely unaware of his past and then meeting an unjust end simply for his power to grow. This facet is run through its course far more than expected and makes this feel way too familiar and similar when these are repeated throughout the film. The only other flaw here to this one is the really lousy special effects for everything other than the dead bodies, for the CGI here for the locusts during their casino attack is just pitiful or the transformation of the Djinn into his different identities being rather obvious changes here based on the lame flashing effects done to signal that change, though there's other small examples here. These here are the film's main problems.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity, a sex scene and pervasive drug use.

Sandcooler If anyone in the world knows writer/director Jack Sholder by name, it's probably because he directed "The Hidden" and more infamously, "Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge". Apparently he's somewhat of an authority on lackluster horror sequels, because as it turns out he's also the uhm, creative force behind "Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies". I have to say though, there's one truly good thing about it: Andrew Divoff is still on board in this installment, so it's not at all a complete waste of time. His performance is significantly less subtle this time around, but it's still consistently entertaining. The biggest problem with the movie is Sholder's weak script, which lacks inspiration and just feels very far-fetched and forced. I know the Wishmaster can bend pretty much everything people say to him into a wish, but here it just gets ridiculous. At one point a cop yells "freeze!", which somehow ables the Djinn to freeze him. How does that work? Little illogical things like those are all over this movie. It's not all bad though, because from time to time there are some cool scenes. I actually liked quite a few of the prison scenes, the deaths looked very good. This is not the worst of the bunch, but definitely not the best either.