everyone likes a good scare.
The operative term there is “good”. Unfortunately, I’m watching Halloween: Resurrection, and I don’t think there’ll be anything good about it. I mean, I’m glad that Jamie Lee Curtis got back involved with the Halloween series and all, but H20 sucked a lot. Even with the pretty of Josh Hartnett.
But seriously, when your headliner in a movie is Busta Rhymes, the bar is not set so high. Though, at least they didn’t lead with Tyra Banks’ involvement. And, it’s two minutes into the movie and they’ve already told us that Jamie Lee killed the WRONG dude at the end of H20? What?
Now, I’m used to the retrofitting of story points in order to make a sequel even the slightest bit plausible. But come on. And after all this time, I want to know how Michael Myers can continually find his freaking sister. Is she LoJacked or something?
I’m gonna settle in and see just how bad this movie gets. The mask in this iteration of the series looks slightly effeminate. I hope that the kid from Rookie of the Year doesn’t get killed off too quickly. Oh look. A head in a dryer. How original. Instead of being chilled to the bone, my cynical, desensitized brain just wishes the filmmakers could find more originality than what they stole from the movie Identity.
And also? Characters in Halloween: Resurrection have called Michael Myers a serial killer. And really, he doesn’t fit the profile. People who work in a psychiatric facility should probably know the difference.
Oh, come on. Jamie Lee really thinks she can KILL this thing. He’s not even human. Sure, he’s got anthropomorphic form, but he’s pure freaking evil. Isn’t that the whole point?
So now she’s dead. But Michael Myers still wants to kill? And Haddonfield suddenly has a university? With a girl on a Vespa who will probably somehow end up being a Myers?
Not sure I’ll be able to suspend my disbelief for the whole movie. And someone needs to give that cute boy from Save the Last Dance a REAL job. All of these characters seem like they were written for actors popular 10 years before the film was made.
Vespa girl can break glass with her screams? Please. We won’t even discuss the guy with the bad Christian Slater impression. This movie is half over and the only person to die so far is Jamie Lee Curtis. Brilliant pacing, folks.
Save yourself the two hours. Even Rob Zombie’s remake of the original is better than this dreck.