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Meh
I've watched it twice now and although I enjoyed it more the second time around I still don't think it was great. I can't remember now if they explicitly said Laurie was Michael's sister or if it was just implied but neither make sense going back to the original there was never any mention of another sister nor that Laurie was adopted. That's not a deal breaker for me but as a couple of people have commented, it's much better to have Michael just going after her because he needs to, nothing else. An unstoppable evil force. That's all the reason that we really need. This is definitely a situation where less is more in the story line.
I liked the idea and structure for Laurie's character, I just didn't like the "Home Alone" vibe of her house with all of the traps. I would have liked to see a more direct confrontation where she ambushed him or something rather than trapping him in a rigged basement.
As for the other inconsistencies in the Halloween story line, this is just Halloween 2. The only real question (as others have mentioned) is how they captured Michael although that's a forgivable plot sin I think as the details of that aren't terribly important to the current plot. Michael needs to escape so he can kill Laurie. End of plot.
Overall, meh. It was better than most of the previous sequels but that's not a high bar.
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