Adeel Hail
Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
Andres-Camara
More than anything because it has not arrived yet. It's not that it's a bad movie, it's that you're going to forget it already.
We could say that it is a film of university students rather than terror. Where a girl not very intelligent asks desires of small girl.In no time the film gets to start, so it can not fall. There is no tension, no fear or nothing.It's a movie without a photograph, it does not help anything, it's not scary or anything.Its director, does not know how to take it, or print tension or fear. He does not know how to use the camera. He only knows how to bore.
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The story is your prototypical dark, genie-in-a-bottle one, but without the hassle to make an interesting genie who explains and delivers the wishing-system. Instead, the genie happens to be a curse-like, omnipotent spell that fulfills wishes and forces sacrifices. And who gets their hands on such power? An unlucky, ordinary girl with a tragic past who is unsatisfied with her current social standing. Cliche, I know. Her garbage-diving dad finds a mysterious hexagonal jewelry box in a trash container. Claire Shannon, the ordinary girl, gets her hands on it and figures out that 7 wishes can be made with it. Since she thought she had nothing to lose, she decided to give it a test. Not surprisingly, the wishes work, but someone dies for each wish granted, Final Destination style. She wishes along until she realizes that her wishes are not without consequences, and then she out-wits the wishing-system designed to be nothing but doom, and gets away from the doom.I call this a chick flick because it is. Take a female lead with a miserable past and existence, give her a dead mother and an impoverished father, and make sure that she gets her fair share of bullying and contentment from other people, because reasons. She gets back at people who "are better than her" in the most torturous of ways. Give her everything (low-bar) that she wants, and then take it all away from her to make her a victim again. We must sympathize with her. Oooooh we must sooooo sympathize. Frankly, I totally hated her guts.And what about the implausibility of certain situations. For instance, the school hunk doesn't exhibit feelings of fear of rejection. He's confident he's got the upper-hand about their relationship she wished for. News flash for the women out there: A man who is in love with a woman, not lust, love, will not be confident at all. He'll act like a dork, regardless of how you rate him; it's about how he rates you. But since this is a female fantasy, and that most women prefer to be bottoms, he's purposefully haughty to be as attractive as possible. He has to "own" his social standing, and make her "feel small", because that how women like it. To me, this situation in the movie is unrealistic, and that is how I know this is a suppose to be a chick flick.I don't find the queen-bee bully compelling either. She's too over-the-top psychopathic narcissist to be believable. Or how about how the main character is so ashamed that her father is dumpster-diving that she walks up to him and greets him near school grounds, where everyone can see her talking to them, and take pictures of it. If I were in her place, I'd turn my head and walk away as if I didn't know or see the guy, social-media-age or not. The Final-Destination suspense scenes were decent. The one where you guess/hope who will be the next victim of her wishes was nice. You know, the one between the greedy friend in the elevator or the compelled, handy boyfriend fixing his car? Guess who I picked? High-five.In many ways, I feel like this story is more of a social commentary about how power corrupts. She lies, is callous, and even has schadenfreude. Even when she knows about the causal link between the deaths and her wishmaking, and even when she knows other people know about it, she still wants to make more wishes. Horrible movie secretly designed to be some sort of dark Cinderella/Alladin/Wishmaster/Final Destination story for women.