FILM REVIEW: Halloween Ends

Cliched and lackluster Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Rohan Campbell, Andy Matichak, Will Patton, Rating: 1/5 Halloween Ends is as lacklu...

Cliched and lackluster

Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Rohan Campbell, Andy Matichak, Will Patton,

Rating: 1/5

Halloween Ends is as lackluster and boring as the worst kind of slasher film can be. For a film about Michael Myers, this film hardly features Myers and only focuses on Rohan Campbell who plays Corey Cunningham who isn’t particularly bad but isn’t good either. Jamie Lee Curtis honestly looks tired of playing Laurie Strode after all these years and it shows on her face though her performance is the best in the film.

Four years after the events of Halloween in 2018, Laurie has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that will force Laurie to finally confront the evil she can’t control, once and for all.

This is a film so bland that even the character of Myer feels tired and uninterested. Michael Myer after such a long time is neither scary nor interesting and his death and coming back to life has become a gag that David Gordon Green embraced and tried to get the most out of it. There are some dialogues here and there that reference it in a funny way, but nothing that is even worth a chuckle, considering Danny McBride is one of the writers. Green’s direction isn’t something that would make such a bland film inherently interesting or entertaining.

A popcorn film’s top priority should be entertaining the audience and this fails in that task miserably. This film along with countless others is a sign from above that we should stop rebooting slasher films from the 70s-80s.

This is the 13^th installment in the Halloween franchise and at this point, even the hardcore fans of the franchise are tired of watching the same old shit again and again through a new incompetent director’s lens. The worst thing about the film is the screenplay itself.

The subplot with the high-school senior bullies is unnecessary and feels like the writers just added it to extend the runtime to what they thought was a suitable runtime for a film like this. One of the high points is the violence which is pretty cool, the other is the cinematography. Thank god this is the end (hopefully) and it’s Jamie Lee Curtis’ last appearance as Laurie Strode.