So now I can ruin part of the movie for you. The biggest, and really only problem I had with Halloween: H20 is this: The entire movie basically takes place in the last 20 minutes. Maybe that's what the H20 means. Anyway... Michael gets introduced immediately, and he kills three people within the first 5 minutes, steals a car, and heads to California. No problem there. There are some flashbacks to the original movies, the other characters are introduced, and we get a sense of the surroundings. But for an entire hour, nothing happens. There is a lot of those "almost" scares where you think Michael is there, but it's someone else, and the music comes in with a bang trying to get a cheap scare. The killing starts with 20 minutes to go, and that's when all the action takes place. As soon as one kid dies, the next one dies quickly, a few mintues later someone is shot, another guy dies, then a few minutes after that Laurie has a one-on-one showdown with her brother. Then like that it's all over. Throughout the movie, Laurie has these visions of Michael, in reflections, walking towards her, things like that. But she nevers sees Michael until he goes after her son. Everything just seemed to be in her mind.
Then the resolution was just way too quick. There was little buildup. I'd like to have seen one of the kids die early, then another one dies after that, and they're spread out a little more. Here, all the major kills happen in too short a span. There isn't a whole lot of suspense as far as the showdown between Laurie and Michael. Like I said, she has visions of him throughout, but from the time she seems him, to the time she kills him, about 10 minutes go by, and that's it. Then she just beats the crap out of him, and not much happens to her that she doesn't do to herself. Then boom, she chops off his head and the movie is over.
Overall, I just wish there was more suspense and tension between Laurie and Michael, rather than just her imagination going wild.
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