“Halloween Ends” is the final installment of the “Halloween” movie trilogy. The trilogy picks up 40 years after the original 1979 film “Halloween” and tells the story of Michael Myers returning to his hometown to go on one last murder spree.
This is a spoiler-free review, which is unfortunate because it means you will have to watch this movie to see everything that happens.
“Halloween Ends” takes place four years after the previous movie “Halloween Kills” with a time jump. It’s been four years since Michael Myers went on his infamous string of murders that happened in the events of “Halloween” (2019) and “Halloween Kills.”
The entire town of Haddonfield was left traumatized and now lives in fear of Michael. The movie introduces a new character: Corey Cunningham, played by Rohan Campbell. At the start of the movie, Corey is accused of murdering a child in an accident and gets off in court with simple manslaughter charges. This causes the entire town of Haddonfield to look down on and bully Corey.
The day before Halloween, Corey Meets Michael Myers in the Haddonfield Sewers, and Michael feels sympathetic toward him. Corey and Michael form a strange kind of bond and decide to team up. The slasher Duo wreak havoc one last time, with an epic final confrontation between Michael and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) at the end of the movie.
There are plenty of brutal and over-the-top kills in this movie that are reminiscent of the previous two films and the 1979 original. Also, the acting was terrific, Rohan Campbell really shined in this movie and the overall acting was great.
However, the plot was not. This movie was written very poorly. It felt like a three-hour-long movie that was condensed into an hour in a half. The main plot builds up the idea that Corey could be the replacement for Michael Myers and sticks to that narrative very strongly until the last twenty minutes of the movie. There is a disappointing rug pull, and the narrative shifts immediately.
For Michael Myers fans, I would avoid watching this movie. Michael Myers has as much screen time as an un-skippable YouTube ad, and his presence is barely felt in this movie. For a series that completely revolves around Michael, I don’t know why Director David Gordon Green would choose to do this.
What this movie is great at is wasting an hour and a half of your life and being the disappointing youngest child of the series. You are better off Watching “Scary Movie 5” or staring at a blank wall for two hours. “Halloween Ends” is the extremely disappointing ending to a very promising movie series. With any luck, they’ll just reboot “Halloween” in five or six years, and it might be better.
I give this movie a solid 5/10.
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