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2 Aug 20th, 2008  (Aug 17th, 2008)

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Following straight on from where the original finished is where Halloween 2 starts off, Laurie Strode injured, Micheal Myers (I'll be calling him MM from now on) escaped even though he was badly injured & Dr Loomis still in pursuit. In case you'd forgotten the ending of Halloween there is a brief reprise here from when Laurie sends the 2 kids to call the police onwards.

MM should have been caught as he was watching Loomis talk to the cop, there were a load of children walking down the alley and in the amount of time he was watching Loomis they would have reached where he was standing. I've debunked the film in the opening 10 minutes.

The 2nd pretty HUGE goof is the guy they've got playing "The Shape" AKA MM, he is no-where near as big as the guy in the previous movie, he's too short and way too slim built to be Myers. If he's going to be lifting anyone up and throwing them around like the original it won't be believable at all. The story of the murders and the killers escape makes the TV & Radio news FAR TOO QUICKLY! This type of story back then would have taken days to be released, for fear of causing a local panic. The fake scare with the cat was very predictable (outside the hospital). It is amazing that none of the mob outside the Myers house tried to burn the place down (you'd think at least 1 person would try!).

Now we only find out Laurie & Micheal are related in Laurie's dream sequence so that could have been a whole red herring. It's also obvious that both the nurse and orderly are going to die as they've had sex. Would anyone like to explain how Laurie went from unconscious and catatonic to escaping down a corridor in mere minutes? And MM would NOT be able to lift that nurse up on a tiny scalpel the way he does, the blade or handle would snap!

Loomis put 5 rounds into Myers in the foyer (so he's now been shot 11 times), I assume the empty 9mm he points at MM before he gets stabbed was a gun he took off the Marshal in the car. Laurie manages to fire 2 shots from a revolver that only had 1 round left in it hitting MM in both eyes (a shot that even a marksman would struggle to make at close range in the dark and she was firing with a bad shoulder!). Our final look at Myers sees him face down on fire (having somehow survived a gas explosion but he was already blind anyway) and almost certainly dead and Laurie Strode being taken to an unknown destination.

Weak ending and awful sequel, especially the idea of Laurie being MM's sister. 

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lesleyanne18 20.08.2008 13:08

i love the halloween movies

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