Halloween Ends

Jamie Lee Curtis always the best. Good ending of this saga.

Each to their own I guess. I thought this was a fitting end to a decades-old storyline. The series had just run out of steam but this last installment made up a bit on some of the previous dour entries.

So much better than Halloween Kills! Was very invested in everyone's story and damn, that was a helluva of an opening sequence!

Halloween is potentially my all time favorite series. So when something is advertised as the final showdown between Michael and Laurie, I expect a heavy emphasis on just that. When the movie goes a totally unexpected route, it is bound to be controversial. With this being said, so much care went into this movie and it’s apparent. Certain shots, overall filmography, many kills, it’s all great. But when it’s not the movie people want, it’s gonna catch some flack. I think this movie is easily the weakest of the new trilogy, but what it tried to achieve, it did achieve. It may been better if they did various things, but it will age decently and I think time will heal the bitter peoples opinions.

Rating: 3.5/5 - 8/10 - Would Recommend

This film has had a lot of hate, well it wasn’t has good as Halloween kills but it did give it a good go and don’t go into it thinking it’s going to be your normal Halloween film because it’s definitely on a different level and unexpected but with it still having it’s bloody action that was decent with some good effects, it’s average cast and plot that wasn’t bad but not brilliant I enjoyed it and happy it lived up to it’s title and I’ve got no hate for it

A little too disturbing of a beginning that doesn’t even have anything to do with Michael Myers himself. Plus they love violently killing kids too much in this new trilogy. Which is even a bigger turn off than killing dogs or cats in Horror movies.
Also a little late in the game to introduce a new character named Corey wrongly accused of murder. With everything more about him than Michael. It feels like a Halloween movie but a slow one with not enough Michael Myers.
It’s more about Allyson falling for Corey as he loses his humanity more and more. Sorry, but for the last of the series. We want Michael, not a poser.
The movie isn’t the Laurie and Michael centered movie we wanted. You’d think it would be one big revenge movie since Michael killed Laurie’s daughter. Instead I am not sure Laurie even mentions her daughter once.
Halloween Ends doesn’t remember it’s about Laurie and Michael until like the last 10 minutes. It is a decent but totally unfocused movie. That tries so hard to be not what you expected it to be. However you might wish it was predictable and the movie you were hoping for.

My favourite of the most recent three, if not of them all.

'Halloween Ends' gave me more than I was expecting, if I'm honest. After the solid if slightly underwhelming 'Halloween Kills' I thought this may fall further adrift but, happily, it doesn't. I think that I like this the most of all twelve entries after the original, which is probably still a jot above this one in my mind.

I won't repeat myself too much as I've summed up my overall thoughts on this franchise in prior reviews of those other flicks, but in short I enjoyed this release more consistently throughout and the characters actually interested me a fair amount.

Jamie Lee Curtis is, obviously, the star of the show, but Rohan Campbell is a great addition and Andi Matichak gives her best showing of these David Gordon Green films. In previous installments the cast behind (or sometimes in place of) Curtis have failed to truly entertain me, perhaps aside from the first one and (minimally) 'Halloween H20: 20 Years Later', but here I was happy to follow the scenes involving those behind Curtis.

I will say that the third act lost me a little in terms of interest, though that's only ever so slightly as all in all I had a good time with this. Let's hope they end this franchise here but I highly doubt that they will - gotta catch that £!

Given most comments here, I would say I’m I. The minority! The first one in the new trilogy was excellent. Halloween Kills was ok by comparison and I’d put Ends somewhere in the middle.

Likes: I thought the passing of the torch approach was interesting. They’ve always toyed with MM being “just a man…” bordering on super natural, and I think this approach fit that narrative.

Liked the approach with Corey and Allison but it felt rushed. I would have like them both to go a little more psycho together.

Dislikes: clunky screenplay and pacing, like others have mentioned here. Given they really only focused on the 4 main characters for most of it, it could have been a little more engrossing.

Also, not many (any?) new and creative kills and the angry Simpsons mob didn’t really float my boat.

Otherwise, I had no expectations or thoughts of how they should have ended it so I was entertained.

Much better than Halloween Kills, and it gives the franchise a nice (temporary?) ending.

Better than Kills for certain. The cinematography is the best thing about it for me showing Haddonfield on a much grander scale. The dialogue is also a lot better than Kills bar a couple of scenes. I liked the Corey character but felt they could have took a lot of aspects from Ends and used them in Kills instead and had this one mainly about Laurie and Michael. Not brilliant but at least it's a bit different.