Director: David Hartman
Year: 2016
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Supernatural
Plot:
With his friend still enslaved, the lone hunter still left trying to fight off the Tall Man finds that the quest to stop him is complicated by a deteriorating mental condition and forces him into a desperate last-ditch effort to stop the fiendish being from unleashing his true plans.
Review:
This was quite a slightly flawed ending to the franchise. What it manages to get right include a lot of the elements that managed to be worthwhile in the other efforts, which starts with the fine action scenes. This one really offers quite a lot to like here in that regard which starts from the very beginning as the opening escape from the balls in the desert is a solid chase sequence, the later ambush at the hitchhiker's mountainside lodge home offers some rather strong stalking and gun-play alongside one of the most vicious animal attacks in the genre and the big attack in the old-age funeral home where they utilize several impressive foes to try to stop him. The series of escape attempts in the different dimensions further this with some stellar ideas that include some ravenous confrontations with the deformed minions, full-on apocalyptic battles that include numerous big battles within the destroyed ruins, and plenty of ferocious gun-play that gives this some strong and thrilling moments.
Also, the fact that this one manages to really bring the series around full-stop with the inclusion of the final stand against the invading army which is carried out in several different dimensions gives this a fine bit of finality to it all. With this one going back and forth in the timelines not only featuring the main storyline of fighting off the Tall Man and his spheres but also the future with the rest-home sequences and the events in the past coming into fruition through a pretty ingenious storyline that wraps it all together. Once it starts with the concept of being unable to determine the different realities from each other and traveling through each of the different dimensions including the post-apocalyptic version of the future that features their final manipulations to stop the invasion.
As well as the strong gore on display, these here manage to hold this one up over its few minor but still detrimental flaws. The biggest detriment to this one is the rather obvious and cringe-worthy CGI that is continually employed here, making itself known obviously with the use of the Silver Spheres floating through the area as well as for the backgrounds in the hellfire-drenched apocalyptic communities that are prominent in the final half. It's distracting and really downplays the scope of the scene. The other big issue is the rabid quick-cutting that occurs during many of the action scenes, effectively moving to a new scene rather abruptly right at the point where the action is getting going and tends to make for quite jarring interruptions to the flow of the story. These issues here are what hold it down.
Overview: **.5/5
An underwhelming entry that attempts something interesting at times but is sorely missing several key elements that have been integral to the franchise beforehand that lower this one. Only get this one if you're a completionist of the series while most of the others out there should steer clear and stick with the others in the series.
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