Here we finally hit the wall in the Halloween series. Even with the misfire of the third installment, this franchise has a great villain, a great hero (Loomis), and a great soundtrack. That's really all you need for a horror franchise, but in this one, it finally gets stale.
After a pretty great setup for more shenanigans by the fourth installment, you'd think that this one would have delivered something more, but the whole affair is kind of bungled. You can tell that there wasn't a whole lot of effort put into this one. Even the little girl, who was transferred Michael's evil at the end of the last installment, is just a weird seizure-having mute through the first half of this one and just a scared, helpless victim in the rest of the flick. They don't really surround her with much help, either. The stereotypical greaser asshole and the clowny guy are both played by guys who look old enough to not need to steal beer anymore. The main female is killed off early and unenthusiastically and immediately replaced with (I assume) a cheaper actress.
The only new plot point in this flick is the 'man in black' whose identity and motives remain a mystery... well, completely. Somehow I don't think that it was some grand scheme to have something pay off in the next installment, but we'll see. The only thing that they used from the set up that 4 offered was the climactic fight at the end of the piece, and in 5 it was just used as the opening action sequence. Lazy.
Oh, well, in the next one at least we get some pre-awesome Paul Rudd.
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