For Curtis's sake, I hope that the paycheck cleared.

This was...not good. So much stupidity. First among the biggies is the table setting of it all, which required some rocket scientist to decide that just before Halloween would be the perfect time to transport Michael by bus to a new facility. And let's do it at night just for fun! And with a bunch of other inmates along for the ride and only a guard or two to ride along on the bus. And no support vehicles to accompany the bus. Golly gee whiz, what could go wrong with *that* plan?

Then fast-forward to the end and there's the fact that Laurie had 40 years to prepare for a showdown by building a safe room and stockpiling guns and rifles, but her first move when the time comes is to leave the safe room with only one weapon and hunt room by room in the dark. Hunt for Michael. Who somehow magically knew where she lived after 40 years. Then they get him in the safe room and instead of emptying every weapon of its supply of bullets into his unconscious body, they just leave and, in typical Halloween fashion, he revives. Because of course he does. But at least he doesn't escape the fire. Or does he? By not putting a few hundred bullets into him before torching the place, they leave room for a sequel that I won't be watching.

In the end, they still haven't come close to equaling the original, let alone surpassing it. And it doesn't seem like it's going to happen anytime soon if this is the writing quality that we can expect at this point.