Halloween Ends : Just saw it. Had its flaws, but unique; I didn't hate it. No spoilers.

Just saw it. Had its flaws, but unique; I didn't hate it. No spoilers.

No spoilers.

The story itself is intriguing. One flaw is that Corey's character arc seems rushed. If they only had preordained this when they were making the other two, Corey could have been Alison's boyfriend in the first movie, and not be killed in Kills.

Halloween Kills did nothing major to advance the story in this trilogy. It's 90 minutes of Michael killing randoms. Contrarily, Halloween Ends tries to fit in an entire trilogy's worth of story into one movie. Again, if only they knew where they were going with this, they could have taken some of the elements introduced here, and put them in Kills, to distribute it more evenly.

This is a completely different genre than the first two in this trilogy. The first two are horror. The second is straight-up slasher. This is a character study. Think Joker. I don't even think there are kills in the first hour of the movie.

This is not necessarily a negative, but it feels like a low budget movie, especially, by comparison to the scale of Kills. There are no expensive set pieces like there were in Kills, and it makes me wonder if the studio wouldn't allow them a budget.

If Kills' budget is Lord of the Rings, Ends is Before Midnight. Kills opens with the firefighter sequence, and then the flashback to the recreation of 1978, and the hospital sequence with numerous extras, and one kill after another. Ends has nothing up to that level, budget-wise. There's not a single scene in here where you'd think, "oh so that's where the money went." The deaths are much more like the original movie, and mostly off-screen. It's entirely character and dialogue-driven.

The 3rd act arrives too quickly. Something unexpected happens, and it feels like this would be appropriate for the middle of the film, not the beginning of the 3rd act.

There's an unexpected death you don't see coming akin to Josh Brolin in No Country For Old Men.

I had my doubts about this when reading the synopsis, because I suspected they were going to explain too much about Myers' evilness which is a mistake in some of the other sequels made. But they don't. It's never CONFIRMED that the THING that happens is from the THING or if the THING was the THING all along. You get me?

The actor who plays Corey is FANTASTIC. This kid is going places. He gives the best performance in the movie. Jamie Lee Curtis also dials it up from the other two.

The opening scene is excellent. When you see that something in the foreground, you will gasp.

It definitely has a conclusive end. There's no way to continue from here unless they pretend this movie never happened. Or…

Photography wise, this is the best looking Halloween film, ever. It's like similarly to the movie Drive, with blue and pink neons contrasting each other. There's elements of liminal space and architectural art. Some of the background shots look like this:



Monster, how should I feel? Creatures lie here, looking through the window.

Re: Just saw it. Had its flaws, but unique; I didn't hate it. No spoilers.

Finally, a positive review! I thought it was very unique. The most original take of the (Myers) series. Very genre-bending.

Happiness is a warm… yes it is… GUN!

Re: Just saw it. Had its flaws, but unique; I didn't hate it. No spoilers.

Twiz watched it last night and said it's the greatest horror she's ever seen

Thank you for talking to me

Re: Just saw it. Had its flaws, but unique; I didn't hate it. No spoilers.

I did not!
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