In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Halloween 4 is a decent film. Halloween III was actually a very enjoyable film but of course, fans craved for Michael and what we got was another run in the mill slasher film. Don't get me wrong, there are good parts in this film. Danielle Harris was great as Jamie and Donald Pleasence was once again fantastic, even if he was getting a little tiring and repetitive. I didn't like Rachel's character at first but she eventually grew on me. The music is fantastic but this film lacks the suspense of the others. Michael no longer looks menacing, instead he looks like a football player in a jumpsuit with a mask with the face of confusion. In the end, this film was fine, but could've been better.

Halloween 4 is one of the best films within the franchise, with its simple storyline and great scenes, matching the basics of the original. Danielle Harris shines as Jamie, and Ellie Cornell is amazing as Rachel becoming the hero in the end. Donald's plesences returns as doctor Lumis and does one of his greatest performances in this entry. The plot flows nicely, and the cast and characters are highly likeable, which makes you root for them in the end, making the movie more suspenseful and engaging. Some of the best scenes are the rooftop chase, the gas station scene, the truck scene and the cliffhanger ending.

Yes he has returned, because that's what the fans wanted, but Michael Myers has returned in a pretty average, but still kind of satisfying sequel, that could have been better, if John Carpenter or Jamie Lee Curtis, were involved, they are not, and the movie sort of sufferers for it. Danielle Harris is very good in the lead, and Donald Pleasence is always fun as Dr.Loomis. The problem with movie is probably the director, really didn't know what he was doing. The idea of putting Michael Myers hiding in the backseat of a car, and the guy driving doesn't notice, is pretty ridiculous if you think about it, Michael Myers is not a small guy. Also some of the slow motion shots are unnecessary, and sort cheesy, and some of the characters are pretty dumb, especially the vigilante group, who turn out to be worst than Myers. Halloween 4 is not scary at all, but it's still kind of fun to sit through. Some deaths are good, some deaths are even pretty gruesome. But the film still feels kind of empty for some reason, like the guy behind the camera is not really excited about directing a Halloween movie. It doesn't really have a style like the 3 Halloween movies before it, nothing inspired in its look, it just looks bleak, period. I don't like the Michael Myers mask look, the gun shots sound weird to me, the explosion at the gas station should have of been louder, instead it sounds, like it went mute there for a second, and no one bothered to fix that problem, very strange. And how do the cops know if Myers is in one place, if they are clearly in another, and no one can tell them that Myers is over there, this happens close to the end, I just don't get it. But Harris and Pleasence's performances are truly worth watching, and the one thing that really stands out here, is the very haunting, extremely effective ending that really sells this movie here, and if the producers had any brains, could have made a really great part 5 of it,using this exact idea, instead Halloween 5 is downright terrible. But Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers, is still entertaining, and sort of fun, see for what it is, which is not much. This could have been better, but I still liked it.

After the failed experiment that was "Halloween III: Season of the Witch", the series returned to its Michael Myers-based roots with this fourth installment. Unfortunately, the end result couldn't have turned out more bland.For a basic plot summary, "Halloween 4" opens with Myers having been in a coma for the ten years after the explosion that ended the second film. However, while being transferred to a new institution, Michael wakes up and begins a new killing spree, this time targeting Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris), the niece of Laurie Strode.Yep, seriously...that is the plot of this film, easily illustrating the most glaring fault of this "comeback" effort: the series was creatively exhausted after "Halloween II", so all the rest is just an excuse to make some money.Add to this the fact that the movie really isn't even scary. Whatsoever. Heck, even the Friday the 13th series had 3-4 films that were decent. This one, though, does nothing to re-establish the character of Michael Myers and eventually descends into a combination of slasher (which at times is laughable) and suspense (let's just say it ain't Hitchcock). Plus, to add insult to injury, the Myers mask isn't even the old "Bill Shatner mold" from the first two, instead featuring a cheap knockoff that isn't nearly as spooky. The final nail is driven home with the most insipid, cringe-worthy ending of perhaps the entire series.About the only redeeming factor in this movie whatsoever is the performance of Harris as young Jamie. She really does an excellent job and deserves a lot of credit for creating the only human drama element in the movie at all.Thus, though this film tried to resurrect (quite literally) the character of Michael Myers, it eventually only serves to provide 90 minutes of blandness. I wasn't expecting greatness out of the third Halloween sequel, but I wasn't expecting total boredom, either, and that is exactly what I received.