{"id":97139,"date":"2022-10-14T18:05:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T18:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/halloween-ends-review-they-did-jamie-lee-curtis-laurie-dirty\/"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:05:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T18:05:02","slug":"halloween-ends-review-they-did-jamie-lee-curtis-laurie-dirty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/halloween-ends-review-they-did-jamie-lee-curtis-laurie-dirty\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Ends review: They did Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie dirty"},"content":{"rendered":"
2021’s Halloween Kills <\/em>was the Infinity War<\/em> of the contemporary Halloween <\/em>franchise \u2014 an ambitious movie that expanded the scope of its predecessor, but ultimately felt like an incomplete story. But instead of bringing things home with an Endgame<\/em> equivalent, Halloween Ends<\/em> <\/em>play out more like game of Thrones <\/em>season 8: a rushed entry that skips over important character development, kind of just forgets about plot points from the last two movies, and ends up betraying what made this reboot worth watching in the first place. David Gordon Green’s trilogy-capper does<\/em> feel like a definitive ending to the Halloween <\/em>series led by Jamie Lee Curtis, but fans might be begging for someone to take another stab at it rather than ending Michael Myers’ reign of terror on such a sour note.<\/p>\n Did you remember that Michael was a kid who stabbed his sister, killed a few babysitters, left one survivor who spent decades preparing for his return, then found himself trapped in her burning house, but somehow survived, and escaped to murder the survivor’s daughter? Green and co-writer Danny McBride, working this time with Paul Brad Logan and Chris Bernier, assume you don’t, as Halloween Ends<\/em> kicks off with a whole flashback sequence recapping the entire story so far. The trust issues only get worse from there, as the horror movie constantly reminds viewers not just of moments in Halloween history, but of things that literally happened minutes before, and of character relationships that should be obvious by now.<\/p>\n Everything that isn’t bluntly pointed out is swept under the rug. Michael’s slaying of Karen (Judy Greer)? Don’t worry about it. The whole town enacting mob justice against Michael Myers at the end of Halloween Kills<\/em>, then losing miserably? What matters is everyone’s still scared and paranoid. Instead of resolution, Halloween Ends<\/em> picks up four years after the events of kills<\/em>, with everyone having forgotten about Michael, and the Strodes mostly on the sidelines. Green and his cohorts reframe the action on an unrelated character, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell). And as for the Shape, he’s been in hiding, until Corey stokes his thirst for blood.<\/p>\n