The third and possibly final film in the Halloween Reboot trilogy- Halloween Ends is coming out this year. The original film released in 1978 and since then 12 Halloween films have followed, Halloween Ends being the 13th overall. All these films tried to recreate the magic of John Carpenter’s original film. The cinematography, music, offscreen violence, etc. did wonders for the original that no one is able to replicate since. The films that followed always wanted to capitalize the original’s success which is not wrong but when a product is simply banking on nostalgia and doesn’t offer anything else in quality, that’s a problem. Somehow all the Halloween films were worse than their predecessors. Considering this in 2018, a slight reboot was given to the franchise.
The 2018’s Halloween was a direct sequel to the 1978 original film, the only film that mattered. It ignored all the movies that were there. To everyone’s surprise the film was decent, rare for a Halloween film. The box office success of the film kickstarted a trilogy plan. However, the 2nd film in the franchise- Halloween Kills couldn’t follow through with the success or quality of the 1st. The film was a massive disappointment but somehow better than some of the other Halloween films. However, as it has the Halloween name, the film performed well at the box office. The final instalment in this David Gordon Green trilogy will release very soon and naturally critics were shown this film beforehand but due to the embargo, they couldn’t express their thoughts freely.
Well, that changes today as the embargo Halloween Ends is lifted and now critics have come out and talked about the film. Let’s what they’re saying about the final film of the Halloween Franchise.
Halloween Ends: Two movies crammed into One?
Critics have mostly lamented the unsatisfying conclusion in their comments. The film doesn’t have an IMDb score or a Rotten Tomatoes rating so for now we’ll have to go with the comments of the critics. One of the criticisms I’ve hear about the is that it feels like two separate movies crammed into one. This will be in a long time that I’ll be covering reviews round-up which is negative, as all the recent films that have come out have mostly gotten great reviews. Amsterdam was the last film where the reviews were bad.
Ben Kendrick
Screenrant
“Halloween Ends is a satisfying enough conclusion to the H40 trilogy and, overall, the three films provide the strongest Halloween sequel continuity of the franchise’s twelve post-Halloween 1978 follow-ups. For that reason, even if Green rolled the dice (and lost) on an underwhelming central premise for Ends, a satisfying conclusion to Laurie’s story from Halloween 1978 to 2022 was worth any missteps that plague Kills and Ends.”
Tom Jorgenson
IGN
“Halloween Ends concludes the Myers/Strode rematch trilogy with an ambitious, if somewhat confused, final chapter. Despite dialed-in performances from Jamie Lee Curtis and franchise newcomer Rohan Campbell, David Gordon Green’s larger exploration of evil and trauma expands on the conversation he started in Halloween 2018 and Halloween Kills at a rate that Ends doesn’t quite have time to keep up with.”
William Bibbiani
Yahoo! Entertainment
“Perhaps “Halloween Ends” doesn’t work because — going back to that title — “Halloween” isn’t supposed to end. John Carpenter left the original with an almost complete lack of closure, which played less like a sequel tease and more like a threat. Michael Myers is still out there somewhere, literally or figuratively, and he’s going to get you. If he’s not, then this whole enterprise comes across as rather pointless. If evil can truly end — and especially if it ends this anticlimactically — it must not have been that powerful to begin with.”
Scott Mendelson
Forbes
“Halloween Ends works as a mournful and somber epilogue for the Michael Myers/Laurie Strode franchise. It’s almost a dare to folks complaining that Halloween and Halloween Kills were just the same old thing and/or just Michael killing people for 100 minutes, offering up a Halloween sequel that works (at least initially) as a drama first and a slasher second.”
Brian Truitt
USA Today
“That’s how “Ends” rolls, though: It’s a denouement that ventures too far afield from familiarity, a good-vs.-evil slugfest more complicated than it needs to be, and a “Halloween” flick that should go out with a roar but instead closes with a masked wheeze.”
Kate Erbland
IndieWire
“If there is one lesson that “Halloween Ends” — hell, that this entire trilogy, this entire franchise — easily imparts, with blood and guts and terror to spare, it’s that horror never really ends. It just takes a different shape. This story surely will, too, but for now, it’s concluded in fine fashion.”
Along with the franchise star Jaime Lee Curtis, the film also stars Andi Matichak, Will Patton, James Jude Courtney, Nick Castle, Rohan Campbell, Kyle Richards, Michael O’Leary and Omar Dorsey.
Halloween Ends is slated to release this year in theatres near you on 14th October 2022.
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