Halloween Ends Review: Misguided, Disappointing & Unsatisfying!

October 17, 2022October 26, 2022 Billy Lawrence 1 Comment Andi Matichak, David Gordon Green, English Movies, Halloween, Halloween Ends, Hollywood, Hollywood Movie Reviews, Hollywood Movies, James Jude Courtney, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kyle Richards, Nick Castle, Rohan Campbell, Will Patton

Man, I was holding out for Halloween Ends, I remember when Halloween Kills came out, I was like, “Okay, I’ll see how it concludes, how it’s set up, before I determine whether or not it satisfies this movie’s existence,” and this one proves that these last two Halloween film should have just been combined into one film. Directed by David Gordon Green, this film marks Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle’s final appearances as Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, respectively.

So, Halloween Ends really let me down. The primary complaint I have is the lack of Michael Myers. The storyline opens with a direction on a new character, played by Rohan Campbell, and he does a remarkable job with this character. Aside from maybe Jamie Lee Curtis, he’s probably the best performer in the film. But the focus around him is forced on us, and his arc was unclear to me. It seemed like they wanted to go in one direction with him wanting to prove his innocence as a psycho, but they really go off the deep end quickly with him.

As for Jamie Lee Curtis, she’s great, as usual. However, she is really only in the final act as her badass self. And the same with Michael Myers. He gets sidelined for pretty much the whole movie, and the final showdown does not really commence or is even teased until the last thirty minutes. Additionally, Myers doesn’t even show up until forty minutes into the film.

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If you ask me, I think they should have combined the last two films into one. Or leave it at the 2018 sequel. Halloween Ends is not completely a disappointment. Yes, there are a few good kills, which are satisfying, gruesome, and a bit more reserved than Halloween Kills, and the final act is pretty exciting. I wish that this film should have focused way more on Laurie vs. Myers rather than just tacking it on at the end. It has a great opening sequence but is super disappointing as a conclusive product. If you like the ending of Halloween (2018), maybe it will satisfy you as the climax. But it doesn’t make a good case for itself as a trilogy.

David Gordon Green is not an incompetent horror director—I’d argue he actually does a decent job with the tone—but I think he just needed to spend more time crafting better scripts rather than rushing these films out. Halloween Ends, the final instalment in the new trilogy, is misguided, disappointing, and unsatisfying.