Rewatching all the franchise, I can now compare this with all the other films and it is curious that this film works much better when it does something totally different, when it's not "so Halloween".
The first half of the film is fantastic. It's more like a thriller, a violent thriller. The second half starts well but it goes too far in the very ending (in fact, I'm not the biggest fan of films with multiple endings).
Either way, this is never a bad film. It's a totally different approach to the characters and story and I really like that (hate remakes shot by shot). It's much more violent, more brutal, more raw. It's less suspenseful, less atmospheric, less mysterious. Above all, it's different, but still good and much better than most of the sequels.
As positive notes, the "why Laurie?" works much better than in the original version, overall the acting is also way better, Loomis is as good as the first one (if something, even more credible here) and all that part at the hospital is fantastic. Negative...well, Laurie, unfortunately, is much less charismatic than the original one (the film is also much more about MM), the film sometimes feels too heavy and too long and and the score - still a masterpiece - is worse used, not creating the same level of suspense.
The first half of the film is fantastic. It's more like a thriller, a violent thriller. The second half starts well but it goes too far in the very ending (in fact, I'm not the biggest fan of films with multiple endings).
Either way, this is never a bad film. It's a totally different approach to the characters and story and I really like that (hate remakes shot by shot). It's much more violent, more brutal, more raw. It's less suspenseful, less atmospheric, less mysterious. Above all, it's different, but still good and much better than most of the sequels.
As positive notes, the "why Laurie?" works much better than in the original version, overall the acting is also way better, Loomis is as good as the first one (if something, even more credible here) and all that part at the hospital is fantastic. Negative...well, Laurie, unfortunately, is much less charismatic than the original one (the film is also much more about MM), the film sometimes feels too heavy and too long and and the score - still a masterpiece - is worse used, not creating the same level of suspense.