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Halloween: Twenty Years Later
Seventh entry in the holiday horror series, although the third had nothing to do with the intermittent killing sprees of Michael Myers. The whole idea of a resumption is so tiresome beforehand that the thing could easily be ignored if not for some idle curiosity over the return of Jamie Lee Curtis. (Absent since number two.) But hasn't she been through enough already? Hasn't she earned the chance to show whether she can play an ordinary human being with ordinary problems? The scenes in which she is laying down the law to her unruly teenage son suggest she very well could. The scene in which she passes up an opportunity to escape by car in order to face the monster one-on-one, axe-against-knife, suggests she is resigned to being Queen of the Amazons. With Adam Arkin, Josh Hartnett, Michelle Williams, LL Cool J; directed by Steve Miner. 1998.
— Duncan Shepherd
Reader Rating:
- MPAA Rating: R
