Review of Halloween Ends (2022) by Okottekoneko — 15 Oct 2022

What a let down after the first 2 movies in this modern sequel trilogy to the original film. Halloween 2018 was great, Halloween kills had its flaws mostly the irritating/cringe chanting of "evil dies tonight", and the shoddy end sequence that's got no follow through. And that's one of the big issues with Halloween ends, it doesn't pick up where the last one ended, like kills did. Instead you get out of place music, and an introduction of a new character who's entire presence in the film is what ruins it, its unnecessary, and it takes up 95% of the plot, there is almost zero Michael in the film, and does nothing to build lore or background or even explain how the hell he is even still alive after being beaten, stabbed repeatedly, and shot no insignificant number of times. And the new characters ark is not even interesting, his character is annoying, his ark is worse, and we are supposed to care about his inclusion in a movie about Michael Myers.

His addition renders the iconic slasher protag to a short cameo in his own film, and the climax fight, was short and very one sided against him. This finale is akin in quality to season 8 ending game of thrones, it takes what was set up, and all the potential, and just throws it away, Halloween ends ruins this trilogy, and sends it off with a stinker of a whimper. The only enjoyable moment for me, was the way they killed the radio DJ, I thought it was amusing, and had great effects, but again was not even MM doing the kill. If you need closure, watch the film, but in my opinion its not worth the time, and better just assume MM dies off camera of his injuries, after kills.