Movie Trailers Wish Upon (2017)

Wish Upon Movie Review & Film Summary (2. Joey King (. Claire grew up into an unhappy teenager who feels like a pariah and gets bullied. Kill Me Please (2017) Movie Rating.

1. Movies The latest movie news, casting updates and rumors, trailer sneak peeks, and expert reviews on MTV.
2. Wish Upon - Jonathan Shannon (Ryan Phillippe) gives his 17-year-old daughter Clare (Joey King) an old music box that promises to grant its owner seven.
3. Read reviews, watch trailers and clips, find showtimes, view celebrity photos and more on MSN Movies.
4. Be the first to check out trailers.
5. It's barley even summer yet, but that doesn't mean there aren't a whole bunch of scary movies to see before Halloween. In fact, it often happens that the best horror.

A teenage girl discovers a box with magical powers, but those powers comes with a deadly price. A tedious horror fantasy about being careful what you wish for, or something.

She's also humiliated that her father, Jonathan (Ryan Phillippe), dumpster- dives all over town, even across the street from her school. Then her dad finds a mysterious box inscribed with Chinese characters. It's a wishing box that gives its owner seven wishes. The downside is, every time a wish comes true, somebody dies. And we're off! Advertisement.

That sounds like a decent setup for a schlock horror flick, but it's hard to tell what director John R. The screenplay made The Black List, an annual film industry survey of the . But it's tough to discern from the evidence onscreen that anybody could see something remarkable in this material, besides the possibility of making money from people who thought they'd be getting a great or even good horror film, as opposed to one of those here- and- gone time- wasters that I used to watch at the dollar theater when I was a kid.

The best thing you can say about it is that the acting is alright, there are a few decently executed moments of nastiness, the whole thing is in focus and you can understand what's being said. There's not much internal logic to the way the script sets up Claire. She's made out to be a pariah, but she has two spirited, funny, attractive friends (Sydney Park and Shannon Purser, aka Barb on . The characters speak in outdated '8. The conception of all the young characters feels like an older screenwriter's idea of what it means to be young and American at this point in history. This all matters because originality and specificity would've set the story apart and made it seem special. The box exudes The Ominous Mystery of the Far East, and Claire has a crush on a Chinese American classmate named Ryan Hui (Ki Long Hee of .

The script thinks that if it makes the Asian characters cool, and includes a couple of lines shading Claire for stereotyping Chinese people, it won't seem like it's wallowing in the same cultural cliches that drive older horror and fantasy films. This is also the kind of movie where one of the heroine's friends chastises her late in the story for wasting her seven wishes on popularity and personal riches when she could be using the box to solve world hunger; this comment plays like a preemptive strike against criticism, and only serves to remind us that the movie can't or won't explore its central idea in anything but a perfunctory way. Nobody ever dies in an unremarkable way, only through chain reaction slapstick mishaps that involve garbage disposals, chainsaws, deadly bathtub spigots and the like. Even routine car accidents are staged to make the impact seem at once tragic and silly. But the kills aren't enough to distinguish the film, much less save it. The violent scenes might play as outrageous, in midnight movie fashion, if the direction were capable of putting an intention, any intention, across. Instead, the bloodletting plays as leaden and self- important, as if we're supposed to be deeply horrified by what the film shows us and come away thinking about it.

I laughed at it, not because it's disturbing or deliberately hilarious, but because the movie seems blissfully unaware of what it wants to do, or could do. Here, at long last, is the bone- chilling horror you were waiting for.

Wish Upon (2. 01. Movie. Release Date: July 1. DVD Release Date: October 1. PG- 1. 3. Skeptical at first, Clare becomes seduced by its dark powers when her life starts to radically improve with each wish. Everything seems perfect until she realizes that every wish she makes causes the people who are closest to her to die in violent and elaborate ways.

Leonetti. Genres: Horror, Thriller. Production Co: Orion Pictures, Busted Shark, Broad Green Pictures.

Distributors: Broad Green Pictures. Keywords: Mystery, School, Revenge, House, Rivalry, Temptation, Brash, Growing up, Love, Friend.