Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

Halloween 5 is a waste of time. Donald Pleasance is not very good in this film. It was due to the director telling him to be cynical and unempathetic. He shows no remorse or sympathy when Jamie Lloyd's older sister is murdered. Jamie Lloyd is seemingly mute. Danielle Harris does give another great performance though, I must say. The ending is dumb and dragged out. The darker atmosphere is depressing (in a bad way), but not terrible. It does add to the film. Since Jamie Lloyd is mute, the focus is on the new batch of teens, for the most part. They're TERRIBLE! So unlikable, disrespectful, and obnoxious. They're really what kills this movie. Speaking of kills, they're actually pretty good. Some of my favorites in the series. The movie is just such a drag, and I don't really think it's worth 90 minutes. Overall, this isn't a truly terrible film, I just really don't like it. Good kills, good atmosphere, TERRIBLE characters, pacing, and plot devices. A very disappointing movie.

This movie suck out the fun out of this movie and make it boring. Like ever since the ending of HalloweeN 4 sucks, this film went down hill including part 6. This is the first one that feature the whole pointless cult thing. Like I said in my HalloweeN The Cashgrab of Michael Myers review "It almost ruined Michael Myers character" and why they use the cult as why Michael been brought back to life over and over? I have no idea. It's worse than the first remake like I espect the same rating like the remake but I didn't enjoy this one more. The story is bad including the plot and pace. This is one of those movie that you watch once and forget about. This is my review on HalloweeN 5 (1989), this movie sucks.

A great example of how to really mess up a great idea, and recycle it into complete stupidity. Halloween 5 is as dumb as you can get in a horror franchise, the ending in part 4 was a unique way to take, the franchise in a different, but clever direction. But no, let's just forget about intelligence, and go right for redundancy. Well as you may now know, Michael Myers has survived, what a shock!, not really. And now little Jamie played again by Danielle Harris, has a strong connection with her uncle, a psychic connection, are you kidding me, what in the world did that come from? That has absolutely nothing to do with the ending of the last movie. So it looks like we will ignore the ending of part 4, we'll talk about it a little bit, and than move on to a dumb, never explained story line of psychic links, because the producers really don't want to do nothing else, but continue with Myers as the sole killer, forget that his niece nearly killed her stepmother a year ago, let's move on, how dumb is that. Plus, this maybe the first Halloween movie to drag like crazy, yeah, Michael kills a few people here and there, but who cares, it just feels boring watching him do it, and the deaths aren't really gruesome to start with, they're just fast shots and we move on, boring, especially in the first hour. Stupid characters all over the place, including 2 of the dumbest cops in movie history, and they even have their own wacky music playing every time they show up, it's not even funny, to tell you the truth, what were the creators of this movie thinking. The most annoying character is named Tina, she's always talking, always wants to have fun, please lady just shut up and stop laughing all the time. Believe me, you'll be rooting for Michael to these people as soon as possible. And please tell me, why would Michael stop for cigarettes, the weirdest part of the movie. And how did that hermit help Michael in the beginning of the movie, it makes no sense what so ever. Even Donald Pleasence, who is usually good in these films, the bright light as I call him, is just extremely over the top in this one. But putting all of this nonsense aside, Harris gives once again a strong performance as Jamie, and is the one true bright light of Halloween 5. Bad directing, boring story line, stupid characters, bad acting except for Harris, and an ending that is in my opinion, not really effective, even though, the man in black is interesting, the ending to me is just predictable. And for a movie this is about 98 minutes long, this movie felt like it was more than 2 hours long, very boring. Halloween 5 is just basically dumb, and a real waste of time. Skip it if you can, but because the story does continue in part 6, I guess you can't, sorry.

I know why this movie isn't as good as the others,it was rushed,it came out less than a year after the previous one.But,on the positive side,I'll start with the pros,Danielle Harris and Donald Pleasence,they are still great,and the best characters in the movie.I also like how(although it ignores the twist ending),it pretty much picks up right where 4 left off,this is great as it shows how much the characters have changed and the town of Haddonfield itself.I also think that some moments are very suspenseful and well done.Michael Myers,I like how he still toys with his victims,and when he's angry,you feel it.I thought that Jamie having a psychic connection with Michael made slight sense,and it shows that they tried something new,and I thought it worked.I also thought that one kill was pretty cool.Now,the cons,the supporting characters,they all are unlikable,annoying,and feel very dated by today's standards.The pacing,well there is some great slow suspenseful scenes,I think the movie goes by too fast,but it feels slow at the same time some how.The kills,I thought they were(excluding the one I previously mentioned)very generic,and not very well done.I didn't like how Michael killed for no reason(it doesn't fit his character),and the ending was very unbelievable and stupid.My last and the biggest con,the comedy,I feel like there was a unnecessary focus on having as much humor as possible,in one scene that's supposed to be intense,they just throw in three random jokes,plus the humor isn't even very funny,it falls pretty flat.Halloween 5 is a mixed bag,for every suspenseful scene,there is an unfunny 80s teen stereotype,I'd say it'd be better if more time was taken.