Wish Upon (2017)

Directed by John R. Leonetti.  Written by Barbara Marshall.  Starring Joey King, Ryan Phillipe, Mitchell Slaggert, Shannon Purser, Ki Hong Lee and Sherilyn Fenn.

Plot: a teenage girl, Clare, gets a mysterious Chinese box from her father and it carries magical powers and a deadly price for using them

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Clare (King) is a moody, little teenager in love with the wrong boy, bullied and fighting with her father all the time  She makes one wish on the box and it comes true, but someone she cares about dies.  So, what does she do?  She makes 6 more wishes.  She’s an unsympathetic character.  Even after she knows about the curse, she continues to use it anyway because she wants to be popular more than anything.

Oh, she was so stupid.  And even the dog ends up paying for it with his life.  It’s like she’s never heard the Monkey’s Paw story.  The rules were shit in that case, too.

The best things about the movie are the cast and the innovation.  Most everything else sucked.  We wanted more from this.

Our score: 32.

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