Leprechaun 3 (1995)
It was a normal night in Las Vegas, Nevada, all the lights were flashing brightly, until a man with one hand, one eye, and one leg walks into a pawn shop with a statue of a hideous looking Leprechaun. The owner claims it's a good luck charm. The statue also wore a medallion around it's neck. The careless pawn shop owner took off the medallion setting the Leprechaun free...
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The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
OK so this is easily the best movie in this entire series and that's because this is the movie where the series embraces the fact that these movies are just so freaking terrible that they actually end up being entertaining, which is probably why all of the movies in this series after 1 and 2 were released direct to DVD
In Las Vegas, a man with one hand, one eye, and one leg walks into a pawn shop with a Leprechaun statue and a medallion. He sells it to the shop owner for $20 and warns him not to touch the medallion. Of course, he takes the medallion and the Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) comes to life. The Leprechaun loses one of his coins and the medallion keeps him at bay. Scott McCoy is new in town and almost runs over Tammy Larsen. She's a magician at a casino with a broke down car. She's an assistant to incompetent magician Fazio.None of the characters are appealing or sympathetic. The acting is lackluster. Scott is a loser with no charisma. He is annoying in his cluelessness. Tammy is sassy for no reason. Their story has no drama until Scott shows up at the pawn shop. Speaking of the pawn shop, the owner's battle with the Leprechaun is silly. I don't care about the shop owner and the fight has no rooting interest. The only good is Warwick Davis despite the bad jokes and the ridiculous outfit. This continues to be lower level camp and an unscary horror franchise.
I decided to take a look at this movie again because I saw it as a kid on TV. I started to watch it and thought some of the humor was pretty funny.So a pawn shop guy gets a statue and a medallion, of course the guy who brings it in says "Don't touch the Medallion" so what does Pawn Shop guy do: EXACTLY THAT! There are 2 showdowns with the Leprechaun and the Shop Owner, with the Leprechaun victorious at their last meeting. Their meetings happen because 1. He's the shop owner and 2. There's one piece of gold missing. Then there's the convenient thing where the shop owner was looking up Leprechaun lore on the computer, that plays into the next section At the casino, Scott--our hero--is having a losing streak, then goes to pawn the watch and finds the dead shop owner dead. The next thing Scott does is accidentally going up to the computer and unpausing it at the time that the gold shilling is told to have magic powers: Granting a wish. He makes his wish: A winning streak.That's where it all gets complicated. The gold coin shifts hands so many times and the Leprechaun keeps killing until the final showdown; which has something to do with Scott not feeling quite like himself.All in all, it's a farce, a decent but predictable farce.
When watching a series of films you always hope to see it improve. The more movies, the better it gets. With Leprechaun that isn't the case because how further you get watching it the more terrible it gets. And with a third movie you know what is going to happen, the jokes are getting old. It isn't that funny anymore.It's great to see that Warwick tries to get out of it as much as possible. But the other actors where terrible. I hated it that the Leprechaun had such few scenes. It was only focused on the main characters and the characters in the casino. This did created a great character development, but these films must be focused on the Leprechaun like in the first film and that wasn't the case. And when the Leprechaun comes in he's beaten so easily. So I was disappointed and hated this film. Though I do give my compliments to Warwick Davis, such a talented actor on that age. In Leprechaun films he actually shows how great a actor he actually is, and what his strength as an actor is.Don't be surprised for the bad vote I give this film, once you read my review. I give this film 3/10 Bad acting performances, bad scriptwriting/storyline, bad Leprechaun scenes , though a good character development, and great performance by Warwick Davis.