David Gordon Green's trilogy-concluding film Halloween Ends never quite lives up to the promise of the 2018 franchise revival.
Contents Filmmaker David Gordon Green’s revival of the Halloween franchise, which started out strong with 2018’s Halloween before stumbling with 2021’s Halloween Kills, wraps up with this year’s appropriately titled Halloween Ends, a film intended to be the swan song for both his trilogy and original Halloween star Jamie Lee Curtis’ involvement with the franchise.
It also makes for a somewhat clumsy, heavy-handed exploration of grief and the quest for closure, as well as the transitive nature of anger, set against a gruesome tapestry of murder. Whether this conflict is a product of wanting to please a divided fan base or an effort to cram too many ideas into a single story, Halloween Ends never feels settled in the type of experience it wants to give its audience and feels like two distinctly different visions that are repeatedly smashed together until they become a singular, messy pulp of a movie.
In her big farewell to the role, Curtis continues to remind us why Laurie Strode is still one of the greatest “final girl” characters of all time. After delivering a wonderfully tough return to the role in 2018’s Halloween, then going off the rails in Halloween Kills, she manages to find a much more nuanced happy medium in Halloween Ends that feels like the glue holding the rest of the film together.
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