Halloween Mata

Halloween Mata é um filme problemático, que sofre tanto da síndrome do terceiro filme da trilogia (falta-lhe início e fim), quanto com o esquema escolhido, onde a sequência de cenas é diluída entre muitos personagens secundários que infelizmente não foram apresentados no filme anterior, além de parecerem um bocado de "enchimento". Além disso, os criadores exageraram no seu enorme serviço para agradar aos fãs e inúmeros (e desnecessários) flashbacks. Por outras palavras, é um bocado caótico. Eu não quero ser malzinho, diverti-me razoalvelmente durante o filme, mas tenho um certo receio de que a equipa criativa em torno de David Gordon Green não saiba para onde (além da sua própria carteira) toda a trilogia se dirige. (19/10/2021)

Um começo tão promissor e um «final» tão estúpido! O potencial do anterior reinício da série, razoável e satisfatório para os fãs, acabou na sanita! (17/10/2021)

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)

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)

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)