I'd like someone to edit this movie down to just the parts where Michael is actually part of the story and watch that 12 minute short. Everything that was fun about the first 2 'Halloween' films is eliminated. I'm taking an educated guess that Director David Gordon Green was facing "too many chefs in the kitchen", because this was a sloppy mixed up story. 'Halloween Kills' flips back and forth from 1970's to present day as if the audience didn't know there was a 'Halloween' movie made in 1978. There's also the notion to humanize the tale by focusing on the people in the town of Haddonfield. I'm perfectly okay with that, but the direction skips between humanity and the classic "Michael is the boogeyman" all the way to the end. Both of those strategies don't work together ... Either Michael Myers is the personification of evil or he's just a guy in a mask, he isn't both. I was BORED. Too much attention was focused on developing the under-developed characters; we're talking about characters that would usually be killed off without any dialogue. For instance what was so important about Tommy Doyle (played by Anthony Michael Hall)? If he was meant to represent someone or some concept, then it didn't come across that way ... he just seemed like a plot twist that never arrived. It dragged on and on, showing townspeople reacting to Michael's return more than the actual murders they were so scared & angry about. It's solely a film about humans being afraid of an escaped mental patient. Michael is barely in the movie and I couldn't stand watching poorly scripted dialogue in a film that should have remained a slasher genre. Don't bother seeing this. I hear it has a different ending for the Blu-ray anyway. I certainly don't care (at all) about the 3rd installment coming next year, because this movie sucked.
Review of Halloween Kills
