The good news is Halloween Kills is better than the 2018 film. David Gordon Green returns to direct , and Jamie Lee Curtis is also Laurie Strode again. I can not say stars as she does not get a great deal of screen time. This affects a shift in tone that plays into this being a better movie. It picks up right where the 2018 film left off. Not only does it do that but it back tracks to 1976 so the night He came home. This director wants to feel like he has left a thumb print on the ore of Michael Myers so goes back to retcon things to meet his vision. This is where Hollywood allows things to go wrong with legacy franchises. There is a story to be told here. This does not offer the final chapter you think it is going to. Hollywood needs to understand that if it is not broken it does not need to be fixed. In some ways they do grasp this concept and work off a theme that makes Michael Myers great, though in terms of storytelling this film has a lot to be desired.
This film marks the first time I have ever fallen asleep while watching a Halloween movie for the first time. The beginning is pretty decent and makes you think the film might have promise, then it wanders off in the middle. The girl power theme of the 2018 film is not only nowhere to be found but this movie shows they never get the job done right to begin with. You think Jamie Lee Curtis is a bad ass who stands a chance against Myers? This film says think again. It is also worth noting that whenever Myers is on screen the movie is at least decent. Instead we get some character being developed that we really do not need. Most of the time this knife fodder is trying to get their neighbors to band together and hunt Micheal down for what he did to their town.
The end is worthwhile and this movie would have been good if the middle section had been handled better. It is a good thing this is Cutis’ last movie , as she spent most of it in a hospital bed looking haggard. There is not much about the characters to make you care if they live or die, that is aside from Micheal who I found myself rooting for when the odds were against him. I am a pretty big fan of this franchise , but the editing and script were both a mess, making this movie hard to follow or care about during the middle section. They left the door open for Michael's story to continue. Hopefully they will milk one last movie out , because I feel like he deserves a better ending.
