‘Halloween Ends’ gives the knife one last turn in the latest Michael Myers trilogy
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Forty-four years, 13 movies and innumerable corpses later, it sounds naïve to think “Halloween Ends” will really mark the end of anything
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but like the holiday for which it’s named, it’s fun to pretend. The producers do seek to bring finality to this latest trilogy featuring Jamie Lee Curtis
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although that turns out to be the only original idea they conjure in an odd, tedious film.
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Indeed, movie No. 13 turns out to be not so lucky, creatively speaking, as director/co-writer David Gordon Green takes his third consecutive turn in that chair.
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Part of that has to do with an attempt to connect this slasher franchise to deeper contemplation about the nature of evil
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which merely yields laughably awkward moments in the wrong places.
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That’s not to say those who go to the theater (or tune in via Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service) won’t be treated to jump scares
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twists, an homage to director John Carpenter’s “The Thing,” and moments of extremely over-the-top gore.