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Summary: If you're a fan, well worth the retnal
Review: There are those fans that want a slasher movie where Jason just hacks people up, and those fans that enjoy seeing the traditional slasher film (you know, the one that's been done nine other times already) with a new twist. Jason Goes to Hell was a throw away attempt that was semi-successful in its creativity. This time, Jason X gets a juiced up budget and a serious attempt at doing something new with everybody's favorite hockey masked serial killer. It's telling that Jason X doesn't have Friday the 13th in the title. Jason's killings were only loosely connected to Friday the 13th anyway. Now, Jason has taken his rightful throne as the lead character. This movie is for fans that like Jason. Just as Jason Goes to Hell took the ludicrous and made it sane by having a SWAT team blow Jason away in a trap, Jason X does the reverse: Jason has been captured, a logical outcome given that the government is aware of him, and sentenced to death. But he doesn't die. Thus, two different government factions attempt to deal with Jason in their own way. One group, at the Crystal Lake Cryogenics Facility, wants to freeze him and "shelve him away." The other group, led by the military, want to examine Jason for his regenerative capabilities. Of course, the government gets the upper hand and Jason escapes, only to be locked into cryogenic hibernation Rowan. But Jason is unstoppable and manages to shove his machete through the steel door, wounding Rowan and causing a leak that cryogenically freezes her as well. In 2455, the Earth has gone to crap. Exploring this barren wasteland are an archeologist and his class of attractive students, who discover Jason and Rowan and bring them back aboard their ship. Using nanite technology, they revive Rowan. Using Jason technology, he revives himself. Slice, kill, repeat. By moving Jason into space and using futuristic technology, there's a lot more possibilities to spice up the film. In fact, there are so many possibilities that the movie turns into a parody of Alien, right down to the EX-Grunts (Colonial Marines) and oily bureaucrat who wants to sell his find to get rich. If you're going to mimic a horror movie in space, Alien is the one to copy. The EX-Grunts die first, then the adults, then the students. Along the way, we see more nanite technology in action, witness a female andriod's nipples fall off, see a holodeck in action (like Star Trek: The Next Generation), watch really big guns have no effect on Jason, and see spaceships crash into each other. By far the most hilarious part of the movie is when the resident techie uses the holodeck to slow Jason down by creating an illusionary Camp Crystal Lake, complete with two naked teenage girls who proclaim "we love pre-marital sex!" as they climb into their sleeping bags. You know what happens next... Ultimately, Jason gets an upgrade, when nanite technology rebuilds him into a bigger, stronger, nastier version of himself. And then he falls through the atmosphere into Earth 2. And you know what happens next... I haven't seen all the Jason films, but I do know that they long stopped being scary and turned into campy fun at least around Jason Goes to Hell. Jason X is no different, with humorous nods to the genre and homage to Alien. The only movie that has more fun than Jason X is Freddy vs. Jason. If you're a fan of Friday the 13th or a fan of Alien, it's well worth the rental.
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Summary: Could be alot better.
Review: This movie is really a movie that you can only see once and say "we'll it wasn't bad". The movie could have been alot better, it takes to long for jason to get his up-grade, leaving the audience waiting with boredom. And one thing that really got to me is that Jason has a different hockey mask this time around, i liked the old hockey mask better. If theres a sequel and it's set at camp crystal lake it should be pretty good, but all the orginal "friday the 13th" movies were better than this.Maybe if this movie wasn't set aboard a space ship it would have been better.To improve this movie they should have made Jason get an up-grade quicker and half-way through they should end up at camp crystal lake. So if you're going to by this movie,don't. Just go and rent it out.If you do make the mistake of bying then you'll watch it once and never lay eyes upon it again.
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Summary: Not too bad
Review: The plot is a bit slow, but the appearances by the robot girl and her cute creator make this watchable. Uber-Jason doesn't show up til the last few minutes of the film and the ending is a bit anti-climactic, but this film is light years ahead of Jason Goes To Hell.
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Summary: "Jason X: Crap From The Future"
Review: "New Line Cinema" continues to beat this series like a wounded dog & the fat lady is still singing. For anyone who cares, Jason is finally captured by the U.S. Government and is under biological study for his superhuman recuperative healing abilities. Jason, the big mouth that he is, has his say by killing all the guards and agents in the room. A female agent, however, lures Jason into a cryogenic freezing chamber & tries to freeze him. Of course this doesn't fit well with old hockeypuck and as he tries to break out of the chamber the room goes into automatic lockdown freezing everything in the room including the female agent and Big J. Fast forward to the year 4255. A group of high school students on a galactic field trip find the frigid female and the Jason-sicle intact. Things turn grim when its decided that both "specimens" should be brought back to their starship and thawed out for examination. This installment has the most special effects in any of the previous "Friday the 13th"'s but, the film as a whole just plain sucks. No character developement (like there was any in any of the earlier films with the exception of say, "Friday the 13th Part 3-D", where Jason donned his hockey mask). The last half of "Jason X" is just plain ludicrous (Uber-Jason?!, come on, people) The problem with the "Friday" films is this - with all the sequels & all the imitations ("Nightmare on Elm Street", "Hellraiser", "Scream", "Cabin Fever", etc.) it gets harder and harder to make a scary film. Because, its all formualic (kids go to destination to get layed, high, whatever + killer on the loose + gruesome deaths - character developement + scary ending = original "Friday the 13th"). In other words the films are getting old & some not all ("Friday the 13th", & "Halloween" are still great movies) do not stand the test of time. However, this film shouldn't have been given a chance. Avoid like a scorching, chaffing case of V.D.
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Summary: HUMOR
Review: The studio decided to do the thing that was needed, mock the franchise, poke fun at it and make the fans laugh. This film makes you laugh quite a bit and is just a fun silly film to enjoy tongue in cheek.
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Summary: Wait Almost A Decade For This?!?
Review: Popular bogeymen Jason Vorhees terrorizes a group of nubile astronauts five centuries into the future in this sci-fi update of the Friday the 13th franchise. Early in the 21st century, Jason (actor/stunt man Kane Hodder, filling the role for a fourth time) is experimented upon by army technocrats who hope to turn his supernatural invulnerability into a military application. Most of them meet a swift and bloody end -- except Rowan (Lexa Doig), a beautiful functionary, who traps the killer in a cryogenic stasis chamber. Unfortunately, she takes a machete blow in the process, gets frozen herself, and wakes up on a spaceship in the year 2455. The earth has long since been rendered uninhabitable, but the survivors include a group of archaeological students headed by Professor Lowe (Jonathan Potts), who hopes to make a quick buck by selling the corpse of the historical serial killer. The kids re-animate Rowan with the help of nanotechnology. Little do they know that a mere thaw job is enough to resuscitate Jason and reawaken his bloodthirst. Soon, the comely students and their space-marine protectors are being dispatched one by one. Help arrives in the form of a holographic chamber and an android named Kay-Em 14 (Lisa Ryder). Soon, though, Jason himself gets an upgrade -- just as the spaceship is getting ready to self-destruct. Try on another "Friday the 13th" flick for fun, this one is simply a pathedic attemt to make more cash. Don't be fooled, this entry is terrible. The only people I suggest this to is original fans who loved all nine, plus FvJ, just to complete your viewing of all eleven films.
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Summary: X MARKS THE SPOT!
Review: Jason X is excellent. It delivers gore and sex and nudity and even more gore. Why is this attacked so much? It's great to see that our killer is a threat even in the future. The deaths are very well done, but I'd of killed them a lot more gruesomely. You have the MPAA to thank for not having extremely gory films nowadays. This title is great to add to your collection to watch with friends or just see some dumb teens and adults getting killed. Why ain't that fun? Pop some popcorn and sit back with your friends and/or your girl/man and just watch the blood fly. I felt great after this. People think that it's trying to copy Leprechaun 4: In Space, but it ain't. Now they should do Jason in tha Hood, or Jason's Vegas Stakes, or better yet Jason's Iraqi Irridacation. How do those sound?
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Summary: LOL ... It's different, I'll give it that ...
Review: Collectivly, I'd like us all for a moment to reflect on the irony that the very minute this franchise stopped taking itself so seriously, we get two wildly entertaining movies in 'Jason X' and 'Freddy vs Jason.' Is this reinventing the wheel? Oh god no, not by any stretch; but there's MORE then enough tongue-in-cheek humor to keep things entertaining. Although it's extremely violent, I'd still probably argue that this is more of a satirical look at the "Jason franchise" then it is a horror movie. You could tell the tone of the movie in the first ten minutes when director James Issac killed off David Cronenberg (Issac spent years as an assistant director and understudy to Cronenberg). It's just a refreshing movie, it really feels like someone finally breathed a little life into what had been a horribly stale franchise that really had damn-near nothing left to offer. The only drawback is that this seems to be a movie that was made for fans of the Friday the 13th series. Some of the people I've spoken to, who weren't firmilar with the franchise, didn't really "get" a lot of the fun that was poked at the horror movie cliches that Jason help to establish. Anybody that complains "Well, it just wasn't scary" just doesn't get it ...
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Summary: C'mon, it Jason flippin' Voorhees!
Review: If you saw this, or are contemplating buying it, then you already know what you're getting into. Yep, it's Jason in Space. For those of you following the storyline of the Friday the 13th franchise, this really has nothing to do with it. It doesn't follow Jason Goes To Hell, and you will find no mention of it in Freddy Vs. Jason. It seems like the creative team behind this basically answered the question "what would happen if you put Jason in the future, in space, with cutting-edge technology?". Sometimes you almost forget you're watching a slasher movie (except for the kills, which are plentiful and fun). There are, inevitably, elements of the Alien movies threaded throughout the film, as well as nods to the franchise history. Despite coming from a 9 picture legacy, Jason X comes across as somewhat fresh, if not very original. Just sit back, crack a beer and enjoy; that's what these movies are for.
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Summary: Best Of Them!
Review: I own every one of the Friday the 13th films, and finally the makers, and writers come up with something different than the old Camp Crystal lake theme. This movie is great for sci-fi horror lovers. Rent or buy today!
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