Halloween Ends's reviews
Media reviews
New York Post
What I love about Green?s style is he has both a sense of the grand ? he gives Michael?s mask the cinematic weight of Moses? Ten Commandments slabs ? and the goofy.
Indiewire
If there is one lesson that ?Halloween Ends? ? hell, that this entire trilogy, this entire franchise ? easily imparts, with blood and guts and terror to spare, it?s that horror never really ends. It just takes a different shape. This story surely will, too, but for now, it?s concluded in fine fashion.
Collider
The final showdown between Laurie and Michael Myers is pretty thrilling, perhaps because we know that this is the last time we will ever see the pair face off (supposedly). Whichever side you land on, whether you are Team Laurie or Team Michael, you won't feel cheated by the conclusion of the film, which makes what preceded it a lot easier to forget about and made the movie, in general, a lot more palatable.
Time Out
It?s just got enough fresh ideas, laughs (mostly intentional) and queasy jump scares to make for a raucous Friday night at the movies.
Slashfilm
Halloween Ends settles the series' score, but it does so in a way that lacks a central logic and that spends an inordinate amount of time on things that fail to matter.
The A.V. Club
Halloween Ends is almost passable as a nondescript sequel?a little blood pumped into the carcass of an indefatigable slab of intellectual property. But for somebody who has fought and lost and survived for so many years, it?s less vital a finale than Laurie Strode deserves.
The Wrap
The film eventually provides some memorable gore but the ultimate conclusion is unconvincing and perfunctory.
Screen Daily
Jamie Lee Curtis brings a regal bearing to her performance, but the prevailing feeling is of a cinematic series that?s probably best left for dead.
Empire
The Michael versus Laurie showdown delivers ? but for the most part, Halloween Ends is an unsatisfying closing chapter for this continuity. In trying to grapple with the horror beneath Michael Myers? mask, it gets lost up its own abyss.
Los Angeles Times
Halloween Ends has the feeling of dour obligation, and it?s clear that no one?s heart is really in this anymore, the limits of narrative possibility in Haddonfield stretched beyond their max.
The Guardian
It can?t end well. In fact, it ends badly. In every sense. The mystery of Myers has long since become deflated and inert, and when he is unmasked, the camera can?t quite be bothered to show us his pointless old face (unlike the unhelmeting of Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi, which did at least show us what the great villain looked like). The only thing that?s scary is the thought of how long this has all been going on.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote