“An unsatisfactory ending” the first reviews of “Halloween Ends” come to light

After long months of waiting, as the Halloween season approaches, on October 13th came the premiere of the end of one of the most popular horror film sagas “Halloween Ends”. The film closes with the trilogy of David Gordon Greenas well as marking the end of Laurie Strode’s character after over 40 years of fighting the fearsome Michael Myers.

The latest Halloween movie focuses on how Strode, played by the ever great Jamie Lee Curtisshe is tired of being afraid, so she decides to face the incarnation of the evil that has plagued her for four decades, and thus putting an end to this nightmare once and for all, but only one will survive.

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Just a day after its theatrical release, the first reviews of “Halloween Ends” have already surfaced, and unfortunately for Laurie Strode fans, they’re not very good, as most film critics rate it as What an end “unsatisfactory”although they highlight Jamie Lee Curtis’ performance, qualifying it as flawless.

Critics point to Curtis’ performance but reject the film’s entire script

With over 70 critics on the specialized film and TV review site Rotten Tomatoes, David Gordon Green’s “Halloween Ends” has a 46% acceptance and a negative score of 54%, a rating below acceptable, mostly qualifying it as a weak film, with some interesting points, but which is not entirely pleasant.

Many of the critics have commented that, despite having a strong start, Gordon Green’s film ends up wanting to be framed in a metaphorical journey into Michael Myers’ nature of evil, which ends to be boring and even ridiculouswith ridiculously embarrassing moments that could have been erased altogether.

It’s an attempt to connect this slasher franchise with a deeper contemplation of the nature of evil, which creates ridiculously embarrassing moments in all the wrong places. ”-Brian Lowry, CNN.com

Others, for example, cited the work of Gordon Green’s writing team, to whom they said they don’t finish giving the film’s story a spin, with lots of unnecessary or superfluous subplots and characters, which do not contribute to the film. It seems that among the various hands that have written the script, they have not finished agreeing on which or what would be the leitmotif of all the ‘Halloween Ends’.

Halloween Ends seems to have too many writers at the keyboard, juggling too many unnecessary subplots, themes and characters. “- David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle

On the other hand, among the positive comments, more than one did not stop praising Jamie Lee Curtis’ work in the role of Laurie Strode, calling it a brilliant and passionate performance, worthy of the talent of the actress. Being one of the points, or the strong point, of the whole film. On the other hand, there are also those who said it is the best Halloween movie outside the original movie.

Curtis is the brightest star here and he makes his character proud. ”- Allison Rose, Flick Direct

Now it will be the fans of the saga who will have the last word, ending up deciding if this is, or not, the ending they expected from the latest confrontation between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers. The film has just been released in selected cinemas around the world, we invite you to see it and corroborate the opinion of specialized critics, before the end of one of the most important sagas of horror cinema.