Halloween tue

Un départ si prometteur et une « conclusion » si imbécile ! Le potentiel de redémarrage de la série, intelligemment conçu pour satisfaire les fans, a été jeté aux ordures ! (17/10/2021)

Halloween Kills est un film problématique, car il souffre du syndrome du milieu de trilogie (il n’a ni début ni fin), sans parler du fait que le récit est dilué par l’intermédiaire de nombreux personnages secondaires, lesquels n'ont malheureusement pas été présentés dans le film précédent. Ajoutons encore à ça une légère impression de « rembourrage », un fan service agressif et les innombrables – et inutiles – flashbacks. En gros, les créateurs en ont fait trop et le résultat est quelque peu chaotique. Loin de moi l’idée de médire, surtout que j’ai passé un excellent moment, mais je me demande simplement si l’équipe créative entourant David Gordon Green n’a pas perdu de vue la raison d’être de la trilogie (à part bien sûr le profit). (19/10/2021)

A film as pointless as Mynář's press conference. It doesn't bring anything new to the genre, a soup reheated so many times that it’s inedible, and when it does come up with something unusual, which I consider to be the "popular uprising" of Haddonfield residents, it's as silly as Ovčáček's tweets. And Michael Myers here strikes me as an immortal cyber version of the T-1000 from Terminator and not a flesh-and-blood creature. (19/10/2021)

I was looking forward to the new Halloween even after the mixed reviews from Venice. I thought the attendees of that festival just couldn't appreciate a simple, blunt, but fun, brutal and atmospheric slasher ride. The whole campaign, after all, had been hyping that Halloween Kills would be mean and evil; the biggest Halloween ever with a massive body count. And that’s what dominates even in the responses here: that it's decent carnage and that the main problem is the illogical behaviour of the characters. That, for me, it’s just the bullshit that the campaign has drilled into our heads. Halloween Kills is awfully boring and very poorly constructed conceptually. It tries to psychologise the collective trauma of Haddonfield and spends an incredible amount of time with annoying characters that no one has ever cared about or can care about. And Laurie is stuck in the hospital the whole time, doing nothing. The kills are fine, but they don't take up much screen time, and I certainly don't think Myers is on screen more than in other instalments of the series. If only! At the expense of Tommy, Lonnie and those other annoyances. With each successive "Evil dies tonight!" I wanted to throw the monitor out the window more and more. (16/10/2021)

Michael Myers escapes a fiery inferno and goes back to mowing people down. This time, however, he is confronted not by Jamie Lee Curtis, but by a town full of people who have suddenly remembered that this serial killer exists and has somehow hurt them all. And so Myers mows down one anonymous person after another, only to have it all come to an end. And the film leaves a rather uncomfortable feeling that David Gordon Green and Danny McBride may have meant well, but unfortunately in execution they negated the entirety of the previous installment and made a mediocre at best murder mystery built on an ambitious but completely misguided idea. This franchise can do better than that. And so do these filmmakers. (19/10/2021)

Evil is not dying Tonight. I'm not as pissed off as others, but I definitely expected more. The Halloween from 2018 was a level above in almost every way. When Michael Myers is on set the film is an effective horror slasher with cool kills and decent gore, a 4 star flick, but when he's not on set, which unfortunately is most of the time, it's pretty boring for and 2-star worthy. There are lots of uninteresting and weird characters dealing with some kind of urban trauma which I was absolutely not interested in, I'd rather watch young teenagers going house to house and Myers killing them one by one than watching this bunch of grown ups dealing with boring adult stuff, oh yeah drama is already here too! We've known for 40 years that, Myers comes back to life and it's a wonder anyone is surprised about it today, it's like walking into a strip club and being surprised there are strippers. Also illogical character behaviour has always been a part of slashers. The original movie from 1978 wasn't some deep story mindfuck with philosophical overtones and abstract thinking either, after all there's a woman screaming before Michael even pulls a knife out of his pocket, so Jokes on you Bitches! I, on the other hand, will complain about the lack of murders and Myers, who spends maybe 30 minutes on his rampage, and the downright unsatisfying finale that lacks atmosphere and suspense. I can still remember the atmospheric finale in the house. Ironically the best gore scene of the film is from a dude who jumps out the window by himself, and the firemen had bigger balls in the trailer. So Malignant is unthreatened so far this year, maybe Antlers or Last Night in Soho? Story 2/5, Action 3/5, Humour 2/5, Violence 4/5, Fun 3/5 Music 4/5, Visuals 4/5, Atmosphere 3/5, Suspense 3/5, Emotion 1/5, Actors 2/5. 6/10. (16/10/2021)

How is it even possible that the same people who thrilled me so much with the previous film three years ago, this time shot something this... Strange and bad. About half of the runtime is taken up by unintentional jokes, a few intentional jokes, the rest is carnage, because Myers is raving nonstop this time and soon it starts to get old and annoying. The very beginning was great, and yes, the retro atmosphere was successful and the (quite one-sided) fight with the firefighters was good, but then it started to get worse and worse. I didn't care about the new characters and I was sorry for Jamie Lee Curtis getting pushed to the sidelines. In the end, I almost lost my head. A pity. (29/10/2021)

The worst Terminator sequel ever. Slashers have always flirted with a certain supernaturalness to their evil, and Carpenter's first Halloween was a pioneer in this regard. But he used the apparent inscrutability of Myers as a mysterious framework to which he cleverly subordinated the style, staging and behaviour of the desperate characters. In Halloween Kills, everything is turned upside down, the mysterious killer becomes nothing but a ripoff of Terminator, the focus is on brutality instead of atmosphere, and the story of vulnerable teenage girls is turned into a community-wide uprising, ending with a twist straight out of old sci-fi. If you don't look at it as just another Halloween, you're at least left with a fairly brisk and bloody slasher that occasionally tries to stylistically reference the classics, but even then it's no picnic. Laurie is just a number and the attempt to spread attention among a dozen characters fails miserably. 45 (19/10/2021)

Is it so much to ask for a slasher film to have at least a basic plot, character interaction and a touch of logic? Nothing big, just basic elements that won't make you tap your forehead every five minutes wondering what the hell those smart guys have come up with. The same old song, Myers, who dodges bullets, who doesn't get burned by fire and who miraculously manages to survive his death by stabbing, burning and shooting for the umpteenth time, wanders from house to house, killing whoever comes his way. Isn't that exactly what we saw in the last episode? Yes, it is! This one is exactly the same without the slightest innovation or addition! The stupidity of the characters knows no bounds and I can safely say that I have never seen a worse film in terms of character behaviour, and the dialogue is absolutely stupid and appalling. Die-hard fans of the franchise and slasher aficionados will gush about how awesome Halloween Kills is, but aside from the occasional juicy gore (which, by the way, could have been a class better and more original) and John Carpenter's soundtrack, there's nothing worth mentioning. You can polish a turd, but it’s still a turd, there's no better way to sum up this film, and I'm sick of what filmmakers are able to unleash on the world and what some viewers are able to eat up. Huge disappointment, awful and I'd rather throw my money out the window than go to the cinema to see this. I don't think I'll be watching the next one. (15/10/2021)