An average movie

Since this movie had been rather poorly received, I had some rather low expectations but, since it was directed by David Gordon Green, I still wanted to check it out though. Well, pretty much like with ‘Halloween Kills’, I didn’t think it was so bad but probably because I had such low expectations from the start. I think I also appreciated the fact that, instead of following the same storyline built up from ‘Halloween’ (2018) and expanded in ‘‘Halloween Kills’, they actually pretty much dropped everything and picked up the same characters a few years later. Seriously, after killing about 30 people, including Laurie’s daughter, they didn’t chase Michael Myers through the city and they basically… just let him go? To be honest, it didn’t make much sense. But, then, another bewildering choice was that Michael Myers was not even really the bad guy here. Indeed, for some reason, they focused on some random dude who had killed a kid by accident. His story was actually quite sad and it was intriguing how the people of Haddonfield would ostracize him while Michael Myers was gone. But, then, again with some other bewildering development, this poor young man did become a serial killer somehow while Myers became his mentor and all this happened so randomly. If you thought the damned thing didn’t make sense at all, I’m not even done yet. Indeed, Allyson, Laurie’s granddaughter, who had lost both her parents in the previous installments, actually fell in love with this new serial killer. Seriously, this romantic relationship just started from nowhere (actually, it was even started by Laurie somehow). While I’m writing all this, I can imagine that it does make it sound all bad and, sure, I’m being super generous here. I have to admit that I was also seriously unfocused when I watched it, I had some other personal stuff going on at the same time but I guess I gave them some extra points for all the bold decisions they kept making with this movie, even if most of them barely worked at all. Anyway, to conclude  you should probably ignore my rating here and only watch the 2018 version of  ‘Halloween’ or, even better, watch instead the classic 1978 version by John Carpenter.        

6/10