Some questions about Halloween Part 13: Halloween Ends, directed by David Gordon Green:
Why the sudden emphasis in Halloween Kills on Michael's obsession with staring out his childhood window? Never comes up in Ends.
At the end of Kills, Michael is fully healed and returns to full strength. Why does he then go hide in a sewer for four years and allow himself to become so weak in Ends?
It's repeatedly stressed that Michael is just a man, but also he can do the Ghost Rider Penance Stare, apparently?
Laurie spends 40 years traumatized by a guy who once chased her for 10 minutes but after the same guy murders her daughter and escapes she finally adapts to a normal life?
Why was Hawkins such a major character in the first two films then he all but vanishes from the third? What happened to the subplot of his guilt over accidentally killing his partner and needing to redeem himself? Why did they even bother bringing him back to life in Kills after killing him off in Halloween 2018?
Why is Allyson immediately so into Corey? From the moment she first lays eyes on him she throws out her entire established characterization trying to get with him. It was like a bad YA romance author wrote this subplot. Extremely weird and off-putting.
The third film in this trilogy backseats most of the returning cast to focus on a new character, which is weird and unsatisfying. But they do it for thematic reasons, to show how a community's unhealed trauma can infect its individual members or whatever, so maybe it can work. But no, it's not being ostracized by the town that turns Corey bad, it's being put under a spell by a supernatural force that erases his agency as a character and turns him unambiguously Evil. Then it's all for nothing anyway because he just dies pointlessly because in the last ten minutes the movie remembered that it was supposed to be a Halloween sequel so they had to shove Laurie vs. Michael in there.
No movie in this franchise will ever come close to surpassing the original. The best we can hope for is A Decent Halloween Sequel, but Ends was more interested in doing its own thing than trying to be that. If that story needed to be told it either could have been its own original IP or else been better adapted to fit with what people expect of this franchise and what the previous two films set up the third one to be.
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