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1/10
DIRE
lemmyhead6 February 2021
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I hate writing bad reviews. I'm British and like British films. I like low budget films. Jackpot! A low budget British film. Let me point all the good points about this film first. No, can't think of one. The acting is dire. If any of the actors taking part are thinking they can make a living from acting, sit down, give yourself a good talking to and have a re-think. The directing is a step above point and click. Just. So, the story must make up for all the bad stuff, right? No. A couple of thieves get together, with friends, to search for a crock of gold at the end of the rainbow. They're hired by a collector of oddities to find it. He offers them 100k if they find it or 1k if they fail. Any sensible thief would go home, make a cuppa and watch Netflix. Leave it for a week and go and collect the 1k. No, these dummies actually go and look for it. For some reason the end of the rainbow is in a wood, apparently. They lift up a few leaves, nothing. Hang on! It's over here. This is the time that the plot actually gets things right. They decide that the pot of gold is worth more than 100k and split the gold between them. As it turns out the gold belongs to a leprechaun. He's a little miffed at the theft and hunts the thieves down. Now, we all know that a leprechaun is it little guy who's Irish, don't we? Not now. He's now a six foot Jamaican. And who would have guessed that the leprechaun masks that you can buy at Halloween are 100% accurate? At about the half way mark I was thinking that I might have got things wrong. This is meant to be a comedy but nothing funny had happened. This was reinforced when one of the characters investigates a noise outside. He arms himself with a garden trowel but then decides on a clothes line prop. I'm at a complete loss by this time. Is this meant to be a comedy/horror or a horror/comedy or just a horror or a comedy. Which ever of these options, it fails miserably. The only redeeming feature is that it's only 80 minutes. I've wasted 80 minutes of my life so you don't have to. Seriously, give this a big miss. Ignore my advice at your peril. Don't say I didn't warn you.
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3/10
No one cares where his gold is...
paul_haakonsen9 February 2021
I must admit that I wasn't harboring much of any high expectations for the 2020 horror movie titled "Vengeance of the Leprechaun's Gold" (aka "The Leprechaun's Game") given the movie's cover actually. But still, with it being a horror movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I managed to find the time to sit down and watch it.

Well, it was a waste of my time and effort really, because this wasn't a particularly enjoyable or entertaining movie. And with it being in the horror genre? Well, let's just say that you will not find anything scary in the movie. Well, unless you count some dubious acting performances and the make-up on the leprechaun scary...

The storyline in "Vengeance of the Leprechaun's Gold" was pretty straight forward, and required absolutely no involvement from the viewer, so you can just lean back and watch the movie and switch off the brain. Not that the movie's storyline offered much of any worthwhile entertainment, though.

For a horror movie then "Vengeance of the Leprechaun's Gold" was really weak. There was nothing scary about the movie, as I mentioned earlier. It felt, at best, like a home project to make a horror movie.

You might want to skip on this 2020 movie from writers Shannon Holiday and Louisa Warren, as your time, money and effort is better spent elsewhere. I am rating "Vengeance of the Leprechaun's Gold" a mere, but generous, three out of ten stars.
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3/10
Oh man...
kbtoys1007 May 2021
Yet another cheaply cranked out British 'horror flick' that's 90% talk and 10% horror.

Here we have a leprechaun (a fully grown man in a Halloween mask and costume) who comes after a group of thieves led by possibly the worst actor ever. Seriously, this guy seems to be phonetically repeating his lines, so unless he is def or doesn't speak English... yeesh.

Director Louisa Warren churns out multiple of these types of films a year, and I must be a sucker because I've watched most of them.

If you're looking for a fun leprechaun film, stick with the titular series. Leprechauns Game offers little fun apart from a few minutes chuckle at the audacity.
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4/10
Pretty Silly 🍀
rotini-5258627 March 2021
Guess it wasn't to be taken very seriously anyways. "Where's my pot ".....needed plenty of weed to finish this movie. If I wasn't stoned....don't think I'd be able to finish it. Leprechaun needed a ton of work. But....all in all....kinda of a fun movie.
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1/10
Bad movie
gfirman5813 February 2021
Absolutely horrendous I turned it off after about 10 minutes it was horrible the leprechaun wasn't even a little guy and so phoney not even worth watching
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1/10
Gravity Defying
brianod-2112628 March 2021
This movie defies gravity, as it both sucks and blows at the same time.
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1/10
Nonsense story with an underwhelming villain
Hayden-860553 August 2021
I wouldn't bother with this film, the villain's completely dull and has no personality unlike Warwick Davis's version where he's at least fun to watch. Plot is rubbish and moves at a snail's pace, kills are lackluster and uninventive, there's no appeal to watch the film.

1/10: Awful all round.
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1/10
Why does this exist
delahayalex6 March 2022
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This movie was so bad, is it supposed based of the Warwick Davis leprechaun horror movies. Plus why is the leprechaun in this like 5 or 6ft tall. Plus the leprechauns face is clearly a bad mask. The acting was so bad, this movie is actually surprisingly more worse than leprechaun origins. Why does this even exist, if you want to watch a terrible horror movie for some reason, watch this.
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1/10
Just awful awful awful
jt_boricua198111 May 2021
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I cant even believe what i saw when viewing this garbage. That thing was not a Leprechaun. It was tall and the costume was so fake and stupid. The acting was terrible, especially from the "Leprechaun" i use the term loosely because THAT WAS NOT A LEPRECHAUN! He had no magic powers except turning his eyes green. He made a girl blind in the begining of the movie but i dont consider that a curse. She was blessed that she didnt have to see anymore of that fake looking Leprechaun or the rest of this atrocious movie.
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2/10
Cue card acting
danebay-9268728 April 2021
The black dude in this horrendoid movie is the worst actor on planet earth. Clearly reading off cue cards the whole movie. A Mannequin could act better, a cactus, a rock. Other characters not as bad but this specimen takes the GOLD🥇☘

not as bad.
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10/10
Hoping for a Sequel!
giftofinnocence18 February 2021
This was a very fun movie. Being a fan of the Original American franchise, I knew that I was definitely going to love this one. Great job to all the cast and crew! 🍀
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2/10
Where's me gold?
nogodnomasters9 April 2021
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Karl (Daniel Sawicki ) and Marshall (Marcus Brooks-Henderson) are hired to find the Leprechaun's gold. They get a small group together and find the gold. The Leprechaun will kill to get it back.

The acting and dialogue were really bad. The leprechaun was a man with an ugly rubber mask that didn't seem to fit properly. The kill scenes were not great. I fell asleep once.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.
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1/10
Pretty bad
Kremer-Thomas2 April 2021
I've seen a few leprechaun films over the years, but this one is by far the worst.

The actor of the eponymous creature does a poorly imitated accent. If you remember the good old films with Warwick Davis, which were bad in a good way, then you can only shake your head at this one. The leprechaun here is boring and sounds more like a bear with a broken voice. The plot is very predictable and hardly offers any amusing moments.

This film managed to make me turn it off halfway through. I was hoping for a sequel to 2018's Leprechaun Returns. That film was not to be taken seriously either, but offered much more fun.

My advice is to stay away from this film and watch the old ones from 1993 instead.
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1/10
More of a spinoff or spoof of leprechaun movies
stylegamer27 March 2021
Do not waste yr time on this. The earlier leprechaun movie was better than this.
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1/10
Poop
ersrule-419286 September 2021
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Just plan horrible the other people said it great so I'm not gonna waste my time to write anything. Hi uy guy.
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1/10
Worst film
This is a terrible film and I wasted my chemo money on this. Daniel Sawicki is the worst actor I have ever seen and the plot makes me wish I didn't spent 2 hours of my limited time on this asinine excuse of acting. This film must be some kind of financial tax relief scheme as there's no way in hell anyone would make this out of earnest.
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2/10
Suddenly Warwick Davis is Shakespeare
bowmanblue21 January 2024
Seeing as most of my favourite films are cheesy B-movies which are either horror/sci-fi, or both, I have a special place in my heart for the (original) 'Leprechaun' franchise, starring Warwick Davis as the titular nasty little fella, always hell bent on getting his greedy supernatural little hands on his mislaid gold. Yes, as the franchise went on, generally audiences tuned out and the sequels were less and less impressive, compared to the original.

Now, I knew that this 'Vengeance of the Leprechaun' had nothing to do with that franchise and so wasn't expecting any of the cast or crew to spill over. But I was at least hoping the film-makers would have a decent take on the mythos and produce something that was at least entertaining (and I will always take 'entertaining' over 'good').

Sadly, all I got was a cheap, nasty little B-movie which could have been made for the price of a postage stamp. The actors (and I can just about call them that loosely) are pretty awful and some of the scenes are directed poorly and the edits drag scenes out making the dialogue even more shoddy than it already is.

Don't get me started on the special effects - they're really not that special, if they ever come at all. The inclusion of a slight green filter is about the high point of the film-makers budget. The creature himself is little more than a bloke in a mask and he's not even a little person, making his status as 'leprechaun' almost comically - in a bad way.

This is a bad, cheap film unworthy of the 'Leprechaun' name. I know it's probably not anything to do with the old Warwick Davis franchise, but if you're into cheeky black comedy horror films with little nasty supernatural bad guys then go for one of them over this pile of tosh.
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1/10
WORST MOVIE EVER
mqtmwnvw23 May 2021
Okay so the leprechaun wasn't even tiny and the acting was so bad, I was laughing so much!!! It didn't even show them getting hurt like it did in the original movies. I do not recommend at all... Kinda looked like a bunch of high schoolers filmed this on there phone and just added affects.
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3/10
Get Drunk To Enjoy This One!
icocleric5 April 2023
I love bad horror, which lead me to be amused at some points of this film, but honestly overall it was terrible, with terrible acting. Some actors kept looking off to side like they were reading from que cards even. Even if you are the type of person who enjoys bad films, get drunk with friends to help you enjoy this one.

For some reason there was a need to add a bunch of terrible lore to the leprechaun myth too, a lot of it didn't make sense, and was a bit over the top. At least it wasn't boring, it was just mainly a bit weird.

Four leaf clovers are meant to defeat them. And leprechauns collect souls or something?
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1/10
So many inaccuracies
emilylisabanting15 April 2022
Not one person ever recies a penny.. yet they all act like they have money..

Not one person can act..

The director who lets face it, no man would pull let alone main cast.. cannot act.. she was a no one in a Harry Potter film ..
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