Wow what a weird movie.  Starting with a lame jump scare and lackluster cinematography, and a first act that just feels like it was deliberately designed to be bad, the film actually finds its footing halfway through, delivering a compactly crafted barrage of brutality and unsettling terror — only to finish with what feels like a tacked-on ending.  Green & McBride just seem unfocused and uninspired at this point.  It’s really odd cause I feel like it wouldn’t have taken all that much work and attention to get the rest of the movie up to par.  
      Tone is all over the place in this, with no feeling of cohesion, and there just doesn’t seem to be any directing voice at hand — which is a shame given the run that Green had at the beginning of his career.  The film also needed a much better screenplay, as it just feels lazily put together.  
       While a slight improvement on Halloween Kills, this is a pretty disappointing conclusion to the promising film that began Green’s trilogy, and the overall franchise created by Carpenter himself.