Halloween Ends: Movie Review

Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween Ends (2022)

It's all come to this, evil dies tonight as Laurie and Allyson try to move on with their lives. That is until a new threat and Michael comes back and Laurie must try to end his reign of terror once and for all.

If you read our review of Halloween Kills or Halloween, you would know this trilogy is not...the best. The story wasn't very fleshed out and it was hard to really see the point of a new trilogy. Halloween Ends proved it.

What should have happened didn't happen when they turned a new, sympathetic character into the new "villain" only to get rid of him quickly and easily. I was looking forward to Allyson and Corey defeating Michael and moving on with their lives. Instead, Allyson got more trauma to unpack in therapy.

Halloween Ends didn't feel like a Halloween movie. Michael was almost an afterthought and making Corey his protege was unnecessary. It seemed like Corey was going to become the new boogeyman but was defeated too quickly.

Speaking of defeating too early, we spent so many movies with Michael taking hit after hit and now he goes down like nothing? It was anti-climatic. I'm happy for Laurie and Allyson but I was expecting more.

By the end I was glad Halloween was ending. Evil sure did die with this unimaginative cop out.