I was probably too hyped for this movie which made my expectations too high but with that said I pretty disappointed.
The kills were plentiful and very well done in their brutality but for the most part none of the victims mattered and this movie veered into Freddy Krueger territory where you would find yourself rooting for Michael to kill as many of the awful citizens of Haddonfield as possible.
Also the decision to sideline Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie in favor of a wild-eyed Anthony Michael Hall (behaving like a conservative anti-mask mandate parent at a school board meeting) and Laurie's granddaughter taking the lead on facing down Michael was a colossal mistake.
Judy Greer did more than her fair share of the emotional heavy lifting in this movie in the (frankly unnecessary and way too long) scenes where the townsfolk took out their pitchforks against the wrong person and then at the end of the film where she finally embraced her mother's mantle as the person to take down Michael. But instead of having a triumphant new Final Girl (or Final Mom) moment, the movie starts intimating at the supernatural origin aspect of Michael Myers that helped make the original movie series go completely off the rails and then we get an incredibly dumbass "shock" ending where Michael not only slips unseen into a house crawling with police but kills a screaming woman with seemingly no one noticing.
Halloween was a disappointing mess that had more of the Rob Zombie Halloween films DNA in it than what David Gordon Green gave us in his first film. And being similar in any way to Zombie's Halloween movies is a not a good thing at all.
Also the decision to sideline Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie in favor of a wild-eyed Anthony Michael Hall (behaving like a conservative anti-mask mandate parent at a school board meeting) and Laurie's granddaughter taking the lead on facing down Michael was a colossal mistake.
Judy Greer did more than her fair share of the emotional heavy lifting in this movie in the (frankly unnecessary and way too long) scenes where the townsfolk took out their pitchforks against the wrong person and then at the end of the film where she finally embraced her mother's mantle as the person to take down Michael. But instead of having a triumphant new Final Girl (or Final Mom) moment, the movie starts intimating at the supernatural origin aspect of Michael Myers that helped make the original movie series go completely off the rails and then we get an incredibly dumbass "shock" ending where Michael not only slips unseen into a house crawling with police but kills a screaming woman with seemingly no one noticing.
Halloween was a disappointing mess that had more of the Rob Zombie Halloween films DNA in it than what David Gordon Green gave us in his first film. And being similar in any way to Zombie's Halloween movies is a not a good thing at all.
that nikka don’t care about you, woman!
