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Summary: F13 part 8 is an average installment.
Review: F13 part VIII is an average movie. Though I am not an obbsessive super-fan of the series, I do enjoy the movies. I have not yet seen part V which most people say is THE WORST in the series, Probably so, because Jason is not in it, so it is most likely abominable an has no place in the series, just as the attrocious Halloween 3. Of what I've seen so far Part 7 is the worst.Part 8 is an "Okay" movie. The premise ( like part 7 ) is good, an insane psycho killer on a boat, condemming all on the " voyage of the damned " to doom. The list of characters is interesting, and appropiate ( Though pretty much the norm ). This could possibly have the most realistic charactters ( except for Jason, but excess and sheer unbelieveability is kind of the point with him.). The movie makes a rather wise choice ( though the immortal part 1 did a better job of it ) in itroducing us to the characters. If this had NOT been a horror movie are the characters still interesting? Is there still a decent story line ? YES. This could be a good movie even without the horror plot. The only particularly out standing thing about this movie is the acting. The performances of the Ms. Van Duesen character is excellent & I particularly enjoyed Peter Mark Richman as Rennie's [ our heroine] up-tight uncle, the responsible chaperone, trying to keep exactly to shedule ( I can almost imagine him yelling " Damn it Jason, hurry up, we're behind shedule! " ). This is a pretty decent movie, by itself, but as part of the F13 series, it is not ( AND NEITHER IS THE UPCOMING JASON X!! ). One of the supposed BIG SCARES becomes a BIG LAUGH. I am reffering to Jason's face, maskless. There is a scene in which Jason scares a group of hoods away by showing them his face. This would actualy work. They would drop dead. OF LAUGHTER. As soon as I saw his face, I could not contain the laughter relizing the monstrosity was intended to be FRIGHTENING ! I will not describe it, you have to actually see it to get ( you must be open-minded of the series. Not many people saw this one, partialy because they were jaded by part 7. There is one problem I have. I have directed ( ammaturely of course ) and written scripts, and the movie simply slices up the original script ( in the script the opening sequence is a bit shorter, but more dramatic and effective ( at least as I envisioned it ) than what it actually turned out out be. I know this because I downloaded the part 8 script to my desk top. This is NOT the worst in the series. Enjoy.
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Summary: some arrests should made for releasing this mess!!
Review: the people responsible for this have scraped the bottom of the barrell on this ...!granted,this is a work of fiction and im willing to accept the unbelievable.BUT COME ON NOW!!...HOW IN THE WORLD DID JASON BECOME A KID AGAIN??...to be honest,this series,for me atleast,died after part 4.part 4 was ok considering ....but it is immensly superior to all that follow.jasons resurrections become more hysterical each time around.a lightning struck pole to his chest while in a coffin!a psychic mistakenly awakens him from a lake!so on and so on.so now jason is in outer space on a ship full of teenagers.has hollywood no shame?
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Summary: manhatten has one BIG problem
Review: in my opinion,this is the best [darn] fridaythr13th flick out there[me being a halloween fan]best story,cool jason,and has a lot of charactor development,unlike the others which is just kill,kill,and oh,more killing.the stupit film board cut a LOT of stuff,this movie was WAY bloodier than how we saw it,damn mapp or whatever they are
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Summary: Jason takes Manhattan the misunderstood Friday
Review: For some really strange reasons most Friday the 13th fans dont like this one. The mood in this one is perfect for Jason. Yeah some parts are kinda dumb like why does Jason seem to teleport everywhere. Besides that this a good entry in the series the rock tune in the beginning is cool and didnt we all cheer when Jason killed that guy who was going to kill Rennie. this is a good movie and is one of the better entrie s so go see it
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Summary: One of the best Friday-movies.
Review: After seven movies more or less set in the forest around Crystal Lake, the eighth Friday the 13th movie has Jason killing teens on a boat and, as the title indicates, on Manhattan. "Jason Takes Manhattan" doesn't have any more plot than the other movies, but the new setting is a nice change of air after all the movies set around Crystal Lake. In the beginning we wonder what kind of visions it is our heroine is having, but this is explained later in the movie, but it should have been explained earlier, so it would make more sense. However, that is the only major flaw this movie has. Overall, I would say it's one of the best Friday the 13th movies. Some of the last scenes are pretty good.
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Summary: THIS IS MY FAVORITE FRIDAY THE 13TH MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: There are a lot of people who hate this movie. That's because it's so clever, not just slash 'em up style. The murders were EXTREMELY creative!! The hot rock in the boxer's chest; Jim Carlson (the captain's first mate) getting a harpoon through his back; Miles getting impaled on a radio antenna; it's brilliant! This film is so unlike its predecessor, which I find one of the worst and most sadistic and stupid in the series (forget anything I wrote about Part 7, I'm just impulsive sometimes). Kane Hodder was SUPERB as Jason, and Rob Hedden is an EXCELLENT director and screenwriter. If Kane Hodder isn't directed well, he will simply overact and disgust me. ... Peter Mark Richman is a marvelous actor (he played a great bad guy)! The whole story is extremely intellectual: Rennie's fear of the water, her hallucinations of Jason drowning as a boy; that's one thing I love about this film: you actually feel sympathetic for Jason, and he only kills the people who he should. I would only recommend this film to an intellectual Friday the 13th fan. I also like the idea that Jason leaves Crystal Lake for a change! Crystal Lake gets boring after a while. The only thing I didn't like about this film was that New York City was made to look like nothing but a sewer. I was born in New York, and it's a wonderful city. You've got to see this movie! It's great for anyone who can sympathize and watch Jason kill people; but only the RIGHT people! This film is an A-10!!!!!!
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Summary: More hot chicks!
Review: My fave was the rock n roller with the purple Flying V guitar. Too bad Jason uses it as a bat against her head. The Asian cokehead chick is pretty hot, until she gets strangled on an empty dance floor. Then of course you have the blonde prom queen who blackmails her teacher with her biology project. Yummy. Best Kill - Jason takes the science teacher and drowns him in a trash can of toxic goo. Honorable Mention Kill - The boxing match on the roof.
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Summary: ~The Best~
Review: I belive that this film is the best in the Friday The 13th series.It starts when Jason is coming out of the water and jumping on a boat.He kills the two people on it and gets his masked.Half of this video is filmed on a ship,the other half is filmed in NYC.Kane Hodder is back and he plays a great part!
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Summary: Not as bad as fans claim, but very weak.
Review: Jason Takes Manhattan is an OK movie in this very good series. What I think holds this film above others is the fact that it tries to twist our usual plot up a bit. Taking Jason away from Crystal Lake may be veiwed as good, or bad. I don't know. I thought Crystal Lake was getting very dull after Part 7. It didn't have the eerie atmosphere, the closed in feeling, the feeling of a small climate, or the isolation. Part 7 is actually my almost least favorite (Part 5 my very least). Either way, taking Jason out of the camp was a clever turn. Jason does only take Manhattan for precisely (I looked at my VCR) 32 minutes, but these scenes deliver enough goods, especially the doomed boxing match between Julias (VC Dupree) and good ol' Jason (Kane Hodder, reprising the role from 7). Another highlight is stabbing a drug dealer with his own needle. Also, the scenes on the boat are pretty good. The boats tiny hallways and bedrooms give it an even more isolated feeling. I mean, in the middle of the ocean, in a storm, on a boat, in a small room, stalked by a vicious, gigiantic killer (who looks even more gigantic in the ships small space). I like that idea. But, the movies also full of holes in plot (strange how the small, maybe mile long, lake turned into an ocean going to New York) but as the purest of silly entertainment, the movie hits the mark. Some actors are so unbeleivably horrible that you won't beleive it (all the Friday films have bad acting, but none of the other actors ever smiled while they were being stalked by Jason, as that Susie chick does). Jensen Dagget is awful as the disturbed teen, Rennie. She plays the charecter in such an amazingly dull fashion you don't [care] if she lives or dies. But, Peter Mark Richmond (Naked Gun 2 1/2 The Smell Of Fear) is real good as the paranoid, maybe evil (no question needed) uncle, and Kane Hodder posseses Jason with such brutal strenth and evil.... oh, he's great. Also, Sharlene Martin's really good as the... teen, Tamara, I was sad when she died. Also worth watching for is Martin Cummins as a video friek. The movie opens with Jason being brought back to life by an electric shock from an anchor. He kills two teens who can't act, and makes his way onto a boat of graduating teens who are heading for New York, New York. The murders begin, on every two, three, minutes or so. He disposes of a rock star chick with her own guitar, as well as a boxer with a suana rock... and so on. But the problem is, NO GORE! MPAA (Motion Picture Association Of America) really chopped this movie (and the others) up more than Jason could do in all his movies combined. So, all the deaths with the possibility of extreme gore are cut down to pretty much nothing. Fortunately Jason Goes To Hell would go to extremes to make sure that the gore was endless. Anyway, the movies not on DVD yet, but the video's your typical Paramount thing. Fuzzy picture, bad sound. When this comes to DVD I'll get a copy, but for now, this is the only version there is, so it'll have to do. I'd say Jason Takes Manhattan is a good overall entry in the series, very cheesy, badly acted, lots of obvious messups. Rent it. It's better than credited. If you found my reveiw a help, please generously donate your votes to me, thank you lots. If anyone out there wants to talk about Jason, the Friday The 13th series, or just horror movies, please E-Mail me.
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Summary: Fady Ghaly's reviews
Review: Remember when I said that it wouldn't hurt to have a little change every now and then, toward the seventh installment? Well, not when it comes to this one, which hurt plenty. Some may like the drastic step this one took, but not everyone can be considered an actual fan of the series. I mean, I guess it's fair to say that it was interesting seeing Jason in this new environment which somehow struck his desires, and, in a sense, somewhat entertaining, but beyond a particular point, you don't have humor, you simply inhabit a state: the results are of unbearable endurance. The mere title is even lame enough to have even the biggest fan recoil away for fear that after having laid his eyes upon such a terrible film, that that may forever affect his outlook upon the entire series! It clearly gives the "slasher" subgenre a bad name, but it, sadly after that, no longer seemed to be financially viable. The principle of it, regulations that were initially informed in the original as to how each sequel, let alone itself, shall reach its bloodshed, if you will, were completely misrepresented and patronized in this excruciatingly senseless and inadequately scripted, acted and directed piece of trash that really has you yearning for an answer as to how such inane filmmakers can be so blind? Where the seventh left off, which of course was in a remote environment in which we all grew up watching our favorite mass murderer prowl throughout and fell in love with, this one departed from and rather headed toward the most unsuspecting, most inappropriate environment you could possibly ever imagine: New York City. And if that didn't sound bad enough as is, director Rob Hedden apparently wanted us all to assume that Jason was merely an average individual, as he actually has the nerve to have him stroll through not only the streets of Manhattan without anyone realizing that there was something definitely wrong with this very deviant picture (unless Jason himself was to bump into citizens while in pursue of his victims), but also through C-Trains and shopping malls... And in the synopsis on the back of the VHS package, they try describing Manhattan as this allegedly "remote" and "dreary" environment by merely mentioning its subways and sewers; as if to say that this abnormal-looking madman wasn't seen making his way past others through flights of stairs that just happen to be within shopping malls. As if to say that. Hell, maybe they were too embarrassed to, for all I know. I mean, it would make sense-one word this film was unable to adapt to its circumstances. Another disappointing thing about this film was the lack of effort that was put into Jason's face, which especially looks feeble when the ever so monstrous and inexorable one in the end of the seventh comes to mind, for a real impact was something it was able to adjust upon.
One of the greatest, most anticipated things with regards to each sequel many, including myself, are always up for is its conclusion, for it is a time when Jason's facial features are then revealed from behind that mask of his (except for the consideration of the sixth installment, which exposed of what has become of it right in the beginning.) But when it came to his in this one, it was just downright ridiculous. Here, we merely have a robotic-looking face that is low on detail, which means that it is low on scares. So, in others words, there was nothing good about this film, except for of course the exciting sensation that develops within you as you watched Jason in Manhattan, but that even ultimately went to hell. And yet to think...I once thought it was the most terrifying one of all-a thought I guess you might as well say practically taunts me, but hey, I was thirteen-years-old (if I remember correctly), things were much different then. As to the way many feel about those good old cult classics such as The Creature From the Black Lagoon and The Fly: they might have once scared you, but now you merely watch them for a good laugh.
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