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Jason X

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: the long awaited sequel holds it's own
Review: It's about time someone made a movie to continue the series aside from the pathetic Jason Goes to Hell film. Jason X may not be true to the usual formula of Friday the 13th but that's what makes it good. Just like Part8:Jason takes Manhattan, you have a new idea in which a good sequel is made. Jason X takes place way in the future and all I will say is that the modification done to Jason half way through the movie makes him to be what I would call "Terminator Vorhees". Check this movie out for yourself. You will most likely enjoy it unless you are one of those Jason fans that has to have all the movies take place at Crystal Lake. As I said in my review of the first Friday the 13th movie, the only sequels I recommend are part 2,3,4,6,8,and Jason X. Would I go out and buy these movies? No, but I would record them on television just to watch them during the month of Halloween or during a sleep over.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Jason X Suits Generation X
Review: I mean, wow! What a comeback for the old guy. He's been shot, stabbed, skewered, burnt, hung, electrocuted, squashed (Part 7 mask scene with Tina), buried, chopped, showered with toxic waste, drowned, fried, rammed by a police car, a balcony collapsed on him, and now frozen for 500 years, and gone into space. This movie in the F13 franchise was like Red Dwarf meets F13: Maybe the old saying "there are many ways to skin a cat" applies to this film, sure you can stab a man, or a woman, but Jason has showed us so many ways on how to do it. It was fresh and original. All we need is Jason to be in a spoof of Big Brother meets Survivior, only this time, when someone gets evicted, it involves Jason carrying out the dirty work. Hell, my mum works in real estate, she would put a sticker up once Jason was finished with the victim - "It's Gone Now!" I'm not going to give away the plot - i'll let you the viewer, judge it for yourself. Enjoy....

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: COOOOL!
Review: Very Fun, Kool extras, Kool effects, good gore! A must see for horror fans!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: jason is back
Review: having been a long time fan of the seris i was getting bored with the seris until new line cinema bought the seris and revamped it, jason X is one of my favorites to date, the movie mixes great sci fi effects with a lot of gore and cool kills (the blond girl who gets frozen and her head smashed is my favorite of the seris) The dvd comes with a great documentary all about the history of jason and slasher movies. Forgot what the skeptics say about this movie, go pick it up for 9.99 used and you will watch it over and over agian, This is the movie that in my mind could save the franchise, true horror fans will love how they poke fun at the usally elemets of slashers movies, "hey lets smoke some dope and have some prematerial sex" says some hot holograms they also bring back the infamous sleeping bag kill. this movie wont disspany

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Big, sorry joke.
Review: I loved the original Friday the 13th movies, even Jason goes to hell, but I thought this was the sorriest movie I'd seen in a while. This movie was like a train wreck; you wanted to look away but it was so horrible you couldn't. I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: GOOD
Review: This movie was very entertaining and it gave a new take on the series and a change for once. i dont understand u people who say this movie is bad - they at least did somthin diffrent this time unlike all the other times when jason is in the woods and comes to kill everyone in thier cabins or in the city. considering this movie was in space it was good - i was very suprised - i didnt know what to think when i first popped it in cause the concept did sound a lil strange but suprisingly it was good and they had tons of killings! u wont be disapointed with the killings and the new unique ways jason kills his victims. i recomend this movie to rent or buy and its about jason vorhees and he gets cryogenically frozen and then comes back 400 yrs into the future and hes really mad - he kills more people in this movie than any other friday the 13th film! it was a new idea and fun to watch and i recomend this. i cant wait till freddy vs jason comes out since i love them both.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Let the bodies hit the floor
Review: Boasting seven kills (including famed horrormeister David Cronenberg in a cameo appearance) in the first two and a half minutes and twenty-eight overall, Jason X delivers the goods to those of us who love nothing more than a good slasher film. While other mad serial killers, almost all of whom I like, worry about finding more innovative ways of inducing horrible death to those around them, killing only when they have a good dumb cliche to accompany the coup de grace, Jason prefers the good, old-fashioned, traditional methods of murder. Sure, he has been known to use some innovative implements of horrible death, but only because they happen to be handy. Jason's hands, even after being cryogenically frozen for four and a half centuries, still quiver for the feel of his trusty machete. Jason doesn't waste any time, either; he just kills people. Yep, with a total body count now exceeding 250, Jason Voorhees is an unstoppable killing machine that refuses to let such silly things as countless bullets, drowning, body-ripping explosions, head-obliterating kill shots, or anything else man can think of stand in the way of doing his job. Somewhere, even in the future, there are young people having sex, acting silly, or delivering sometimes awful dialogue in bad acting performances; adults are planning to sell him to the highest bidder in hopes of studying him like some lab animal; or Terminator-aspiring androids are making fools of themselves and just begging to be taken to his school of hard knocks; and Jason is there. He can't be stopped; he can't be reasoned with; he can't be bribed; he can be sidetracked, but nor for long; he is here to kill, without remorse, without any sign of emotion, and that is why some many of us love him so much.

Let's forget the script for a moment and look at what is really important. Jason kills a lot of people in this movie, as only he can do it. After a Houdini-like escape and quite satisfying instant bloodbath, he finds himself cryogenically frozen; he breaches the hull of his little unit in an attempt to kill again, leading our intrepid group of future student researchers into believing he is far beyond the help of the nanotechnology that revives his last intended victim. Yet, after 455 years of inaction, he has no trouble whatsoever adapting to the futuristic technology of the spaceship he finds himself on, making one of his most satisfying kills immediately after arising from his metal slab. Soon afterward, the ship's grunts are after him, hauling around the type of goodies that as yet exist only in the world of Duke Nukem and Quake, but we laugh for Jason (since he can't laugh for himself) as he makes mincemeat out of the tough men and women. That leaves only a disgusting professor, his silly and horny students, an android, a few of the ship's essential nobodies, and his cryogenic travel buddy Rowan left alive. You never have to worry about waiting long for each death, as the filmmakers rightly decided not to let some of the awful plot elements get in the way of the carnage. Eventually, Jason is upgraded to uber-Jason, and that only adds to the fun.

The special effects are generally quite impressive here; some of them are a little silly plot-wise, but they look pretty darn good. The super android whose upgrade goes to her head is a pretty stupid character, yet she does bring some new toys to the party, forcing Jason to rise to the occasion of upstaging her. It was quite interesting to watch the DVD featurette on the making of Jason X. This movie is fully digitalized, and all of the cutting edge work that went into this film makes me think I should have been a little more impressed than I was, but everything definitely looks and sounds pretty darn good. The acting ranges from the good to the bad. Lexa Doig is great as Rowan, Kane Hodder is perfect as Jason, and Peter Mensah wins high praise from me for his portrayal of Sgt. Bronski; he is the only worthy foe Jason faces here, and the man knows how to make an exit. The professor and students are just plain silly characters one and all, but since all that really matters in this type of movie is that they all die as quickly as possible, I have decided not to let the cliched, silly dialogue of these folks detract from my five-star rating.

Not only is the featurette on the making of this film a great addition to the DVD, the half-hour documentary on The Many Lives of Jason Voorhees is wonderful. It does my heart good to see both knowledgeable folks from the actual movies and horror fans express the true joys of watching slasher films. Best of all, the documentaries introduce us to the man behind the mask, the only man to ever play Jason in more than one movie, Kane Hodder. A former stuntman reveling in the role of horror's most productive serial killer in the last four franchise movies, Hodder is a credit to the character he so enjoys playing, boasting a special tattoo on his inside lower lip to prove it. Jason X is not a good movie script-wise, but don't let that stop you from watching Jason Voorhees do what he does best in this final sparring practice before his impending, highly-anticipated showdown with Freddy Krueger.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: What a waste
Review: This movie is sooo not worth buying, my suggestion is that you rent it only if your a harcore fan.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: pretty good but not as good as the others
Review: This is a really good jason movie but i like the other ones better.This movie takes place in a space ship where everyone thinks jason is dead.Then when he wakes up he's just regular jason. Then later on in the movie a robot blows him to pieces.But he regenerates and comes back as a metal robot called jason x.this is a really good movie with some funny parts in it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: its called entertainment
Review: saw this in theatre. i rate this as the second "best" movie i've seen in the past couple years. (triple xxx being #1 and ghost of mars #3...its that kind of "best" movie =) jason is just a bad [man]. i mean how many people do you know that can chop a guys arm off when frozen. HOW MANY. Watch it with friends. You'll laugh. Might not be something you'd want to buy unless your really into the series.


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