When I was planning to watch this film I was thinking "Halloween Kills was really bad, they must have been saving the good story for this one, I mean the original is still one of the best films of all time." Then a day before I was going to watch it I saw that Michael Myers was in it for 12 minutes..........12 minutes in a 1 hour 51 minute film about....that's right, Michael Myers. Alarm bells started ringing.
What transpired was in fact a farce of a film, the perfect example of how best spoil a franchise, the game of thrones effect if you will. Where do I start.
Laurie Strode, absolute bad ass in the last 2 films, who's daughter was literally murdered in the last scene of the last film, has become a self healed, writer only 4 years later. Surely she should be on the war path destroying everything in her way.
Then there's Corey, the films protagonist, the person who has had no connection with a Halloween film ever, who all of a sudden is front and center of the entire film, until oh wait they killed him off so what was the point. He wasn't even a very good character
If you were to watch the first 45 minutes or so without seeing the titles or knowing what you were watching, you would think you were watching some kind of romance drama, no horror at all.
The middle is a none event, Corey and Michael teaming up after Michael somehow gives Corey evil powers, romance between Corey and Laurie's granddaughter, some crap kills that you don't see all off, more romance and a few good one liners by the only likeable character (Corey's dad)
Then there is the end, the death of Corey seemed a strange one, they had built him up to be a new Michael Myers and then he just dies, but will come back to that in a moment. Here it is, The final battle between good and evil, the part that has been 43 years in the making, and it was just nothing, Laurie gets thrown around a lot, then pins Michael down, taking his mask off (don't even show his face), and slitting his throat. Ok grinding him up at the end is a good touch but it was all just a bit crap.
Then the end. Laurie has continued her book *yawn* and mentions that evil just changes, there is abother romance bit and then it ends. Wait.....evil changes, why not bring Corey back there (yes even though he was a bad character) and get him to kill Laurie off, giving another director in the future new possibilities because let's face it, there will be more films in the future
Halloween films were built on suspense, then they had to adapt to the times making this trilogy, not in keeping with original themes, but required to get the audience's in, which I can get onboard with. It just seems a shame that the "END" seems more like a spin-off.
What transpired was in fact a farce of a film, the perfect example of how best spoil a franchise, the game of thrones effect if you will. Where do I start.
Laurie Strode, absolute bad ass in the last 2 films, who's daughter was literally murdered in the last scene of the last film, has become a self healed, writer only 4 years later. Surely she should be on the war path destroying everything in her way.
Then there's Corey, the films protagonist, the person who has had no connection with a Halloween film ever, who all of a sudden is front and center of the entire film, until oh wait they killed him off so what was the point. He wasn't even a very good character
If you were to watch the first 45 minutes or so without seeing the titles or knowing what you were watching, you would think you were watching some kind of romance drama, no horror at all.
The middle is a none event, Corey and Michael teaming up after Michael somehow gives Corey evil powers, romance between Corey and Laurie's granddaughter, some crap kills that you don't see all off, more romance and a few good one liners by the only likeable character (Corey's dad)
Then there is the end, the death of Corey seemed a strange one, they had built him up to be a new Michael Myers and then he just dies, but will come back to that in a moment. Here it is, The final battle between good and evil, the part that has been 43 years in the making, and it was just nothing, Laurie gets thrown around a lot, then pins Michael down, taking his mask off (don't even show his face), and slitting his throat. Ok grinding him up at the end is a good touch but it was all just a bit crap.
Then the end. Laurie has continued her book *yawn* and mentions that evil just changes, there is abother romance bit and then it ends. Wait.....evil changes, why not bring Corey back there (yes even though he was a bad character) and get him to kill Laurie off, giving another director in the future new possibilities because let's face it, there will be more films in the future
Halloween films were built on suspense, then they had to adapt to the times making this trilogy, not in keeping with original themes, but required to get the audience's in, which I can get onboard with. It just seems a shame that the "END" seems more like a spin-off.