Dylan Ramsay This one would be for absolute hardcore Phantasm phans -- anybody who's seen the first four films are in for a treat with surprise guest appearances. Although it's a bit tedious and, at times, confusing, it did have good moments.

Platypuschow It's hard to believe that the Phantasm series started back in 1979 and sporadically released it's 5 movies across the decades.What's even harder to believe is that every major player from the franchise has stuck through it and is right here in 2016 for the final chapter.Reggie returns one last time to reunite with his friends, fight the forces of evil and go toe to toe with the Tall Man for the ultimate confrontation.Now I don't think that the Phantasm franchise is that great, I think they are original titles and I applaud them for lasting as long as they have but they've tended to be confusing disconnected movies.Alas this is no different, in fact I have to say it's the most confusing of them all. Regardless it's a nostalgia trip, everyones along for the ride including the films original creators.Though the sfx are ropey and the plot makes very little sense Ravager isn't that bad, it's just not a fitting finale for a series that has lasted this long! What makes it worse is that the highly ambiguous finale does it no favours.I'd say this is essential viewing for fans of the series but all things considered it should have been considerably better.RIP Angus ScrimmThe Good:Nostalgia filledSome new and interesting ideasThe Bad:Plot isn't greatPacing is a bit of a messFinale is terribleThings I Learnt From This Movie:Reggie Bannister is immortalWhen a franchises sfx haven't improved since the 1970's you need to have serious words with your sfx guys

GL84 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.This was quite the fun if 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. As well, 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 in on 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 it's 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 be 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.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

tvsweeney-39052 Having seen all the others films in this series, I felt this one was a big disappointment. The acting and effects are good but definitely not the script. Though it was a novelty having an entire cast stay together long enough to make this many movies, and seeing a montage in which they age, this, as the final film in the franchise, went out not with a band nor a whimper, but simply...went. With all the switches from one dimension to another, soon the audience is apt to soon be as confused as Reggie.No explanation was ever given in any of the movies for why all this was happening and it isn't given here, the little speeches of "loyalty" which should really read "friendship" notwithstanding. Although the actors do a credible job, and the special effects are well-done, along with brief glimpses of black humor, the plot is a confusing mess leaving nothing but disappointment in its wake. This movie doesn't tie up any loose threads or offer any explanations. Technically, it's not even a final entry since the story merely stops...with an open ending which could conceivably herald another episode, if the "Tall Man" himself, Angus Scrimm, were going to be around. Once wonder if perhaps since this film was dedicated to his memory, everyone thought it would be too difficult to replace someone fitting that role so aptly.Whatever the reasons, I felt it was time wasted and was left with the feeling the spirit as well as the fright of the original film had long since fled.