“Halloween Ends” limps into theaters (and onto Peacock) with its head low and its attitude repentant. Film critic Katie Rife reviews the end (or is it?) of David Gordon Green's trilogy.
For this writer, the greatest sin of "Halloween Ends’" isn’t that it makes no sense, or that much of the dialogue plays like it was written by an A.I. that needs a couple more updates before it sounds fully human. It’s not even that it has none of the courage of the previous film’s convictions, as wooly-minded as they may have ended up being.
No, its biggest problem is that it’s boring. While Michael is hiding out in the sewer, "Halloween Ends" spends most of its time developing a chemistry-free romance between Allyson and Corey, which Laurie opposes on the grounds that his eyes remind her of Michael’s.
In a more competent — or at least, less compromised — director's hands, maybe this attempt at a franchise-ender might have worked. As it is, theHalloween" movies go out on an unfocused, insecure note. Aimless and careless, "Halloween Ends" is the opposite of John Carpenter’s straightforward, impeccably crafted original, and it arrives DOA. Cause of death? A thousand cuts.
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