As a long time fan of Halloween I'm always very excited to see a new Halloween film being released especially with Jamie Lee Curtis. I understood going in that this is supposed to be the true sequel which in it of itself was a little hard to wrap my brain around because being a true Halloween fan I've seen all of the Halloween movies. Having to pretend that those other films never existed and that this movie left off where the first one ended would be difficult, but that was just the beginning. Next we need to believe that Michael Myers, a man that was portrayed as superhuman in the original movie is now just a man. Not just a man, but an old man. Sure, he may still be strong, but without that supernatural element that we are so used to Michael Myers in turn lost his magic-his ability to terrify. He's just not as scary in this movie. If you add all that to how disjointed this film felt it's a huge disappointment. The editing was horrible. The sequences felt out of order somehow and things were drawn out too much. A lot didn't make sense, the kill scenes had no build up, and as I mentioned before Michael just wasn't as scary. Did it have moments of momentum? Yes, but just barely and they were few and far between. I'm so confused as to how so many true Halloween fans can be so thrilled with this sadly disappointing film. I think making it a "true" sequel was a very bad idea.
Review of Halloween
