It features a few briefly sketched but
still sympathetic characters who we feel a tinge of grief when they're snuffed, but the film's obvious and frivolous attempts to turn the original's psychological terror into a series of well - executed but hollow set pieces for mass consumption is unfortunate.
Not exact matches
However, with so much else going on and so many other
characters sharing the screen, Thanos
still fails to be a fully developed and
sympathetic antagonist.
The best of those
characters is undoubtedly the horny motel purveyor and artist played wonderfully by Larry Fessenden who is brilliantly creepy yet
still sympathetic.