This followup to the 1992 movie isn’t that bad. Tony Todd returns as the excellent Candyman, and we learn more about his history.
Sure, we already knew that if you look in a mirror and call his name five times, you’ll soon be visited by him, and he’ll be only too happy to split you from groin to gullet – not a pleasant experience.
In this release, the third installment of the series, the action gets more gruesome (as you would expect), but the basic premise is the same: A bunch of people are affected by the visions of one person. That person gets nervous about an event that is about to happen, and as such those people don’t die as they are supposed to, thus circumventing death’s design and laying the groundwork for the rest of the movie.
This movie loses touch with the first two in that there isn’t any connection, other than the fact that those who got off of an ill-fated roller coaster just before it plunged several students to their deaths manage to look up the initial incident on the internet (there is only a brief mention of the second group). But it stays fairly close to the basic premise of the series.
I don’t know why, but I always seem to like productions from Jerry Bruckheimer. Cat People was probably the first film of his that I saw, but I think that it was Days of Thunder that was the first film that really had his “feel” to it. I’m not sure what it is, exactly, either – I think it is likely the score, usually quite powerful, but not enough to overpower the video. In any case, this one was square in his busy period.
Starring Sean Connery and Ed Harris, the film is set almost entirely on Alcatraz island, currently taken over by Harris’ band of Marines, intent on securing honor for their fallen comrades who have managed to miss out on military recognition because of the circumstances surrounding their deaths. Oh yeah, and they’d like $100 million too.
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