Set up to be the grand finale of the Halloween saga, Halloween Ends missed the mark in every possible way until the very end of the movie. Released on October 14, 2022, from the well-meaning but ultimately misguided director David Gordon Green. Green directed the previous two Halloween sequels. From failing to resolve plotlines to introducing a new main character in the last movie of the franchise, this movie was a hot mess.

  I’ll start by giving the movie credit. The opening scene is absolutely incredible. The creepy vibe and the shocking moment at the end gears you up to watch a much better movie than what we got. Also, the ending of the movie is pretty great and is the only moment of closure in the entire film.

That’s pretty much all there is to this movie that I can praise. I was about halfway through the movie watching this with my dad when I said out loud to my father, “This movie is not good”. This was the first time I had ever disliked a movie while watching it. I’ve been disappointed in retrospect but never have I felt such hatred for a movie that I said it aloud while watching it.

  The most glaring issue, however, is that Michael Myers, the main antagonist of the entire franchise and one of the most iconic horror movie killers of all time, doesn’t show up until almost halfway through the movie. You kinda forget that this is supposed to be a Halloween movie. It’s just people talking about Michael Myers and how evil is an “infection”. They say the word infection about 300 times over the course of the movie and by the end, it’s lost all meaning.

  This movie is more pointless than the second Joker movie. Instead of the epic showdown between Laurie Strode, played for the final time by the legendary Jamie Lee Curtis, and Michael Myers, We got about an hour and forty-five minutes of the Corey Cunningham show. This character, played by Rohan Campbell who did a good job with what he was given, comes out of nowhere. When I watched him in the cold open I assumed he was just there for a cool opening scene. But then he kept showing up. He eventually becomes one of the main antagonists. He gets lost in a sewer and Michael Myers grabs him and infects him with the power of evil it seems. But then he is made meaningless by the fact that Michael Myers kills him after the movie spends its entire runtime building him up to be the next villain.

  While I respect the filmmakers for trying something new, the last movie in a franchise is not the time to introduce a new main character and give him all the screen time. This movie should have been a clear slam dunk. The only requirement was a satisfying conclusion to the last three movies in the timeline. An awesome final showdown between the two protagonists but instead we got that for about five minutes. This movie didn’t need to be great, it just needed to be a conclusion that made sense.