Jason X

[dh1989]

Jason X



Starring: Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, Chuck Campbell, Lisa Ryder, Peter Mensah, Derwin Jordan, and Jonathan Potts.

Directed By: James Isaac

Written By: Todd Farmer.

Plot: "Jason Voorhees returns with a new look, a new machete, and his same murderous attitude as he is awakened on a spaceship in the 25th century."



My Review: Jason X has a very big task. New Line wanted to give vital signs to the horror film series. And, in parts, it does, but as a whole, this film only puts another nail in Jason Voorhees' coffin.

The cast? Do I need to talk about the cast? After all, this is a Friday The 13th movie! They aren't looking for the next Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep, they just want attractive young people that can wear skimpy clothes and look good with fake blood all over their body. They get that here, although a few cast members warrant attention. Lisa Ryder is sexy and cool as Kay-Em 14, a female android, who is the star of one the film's best action sequences: Jason Vs. Kay-Em 14. Peter Mensah has a gruffy old veteran quality to him as Brodski, a gruff security guard, if you will, who likes to kick ass. And stunt man Kane Hodder is chilling as the big hockey mask slayer himself.

The directing is perfect. The film DOES move at a kick-ass pace. There is enough set-up (creepy noises, far-away screams, a passing shadow, etc..), gore (mostly slicing and dicing with a machete, but there is a neat "frozen face"), and aftermath (screaming reactions, bloody rooms, etc...) to keep all horror fans happy. Also, for a relatively low-budget film, the effects rock. Very futuristic and exciting.

Todd Farmer's screenplay is where the film falters. It is just SO bad. I mean, we all know there are some films where they are so bad, we like them, but this is so bad we think it bad. The dialouge is so damn corny, I cringed, and a few of the plot devices are too random and lack inspiration. Thumbs down.

Overall, this is fun film with some sexy woman, cool fights, neat-o kills, and okay acting due to a few of the performers, but the script brings it down to bargain bin level.

5/10

[The Delfonics]

Jason X - (6/10)

My freinds and I saw this because along with seeing the good flicks we love to see the campy ones too. Halloween Res was terrible (4/10) but I couldnt help but like this flick. It was fun and wasnt nearly as good as the other ones but the camp crystal lake falshback scene and the hot chicks made it a treat.

[Sad man]

JASON X
RATING: 4/10

Rated R
Director: Jim Isaac
Starring: Kane Hodder, Lisa Ryder,
Lexa Doig, Mellysa Ade
Running time: 1 hour 32 minutes
Year of realease: 2002

Wow! number 10!, not every day you can make 10 films about the same thing.But Jason X is here to prove us that we are wrong and that part X can be good enough just to make a part XI.

Actually, the first time I saw this movie was on a night before the official opening.It was Sunday, at 1:30 in the morning and I was getting ready to see the very awaited Jason X.
After the movie was over, the first thing that came up my mind was: What a BAD MOVIE, and my rating for it was a 4/10.After it was realeased on DVD and I rented it, I thought, Ah, it´s a 5/10.But after I saw it like over 6 times in a roll(Yeah, I was really boring) I thought It deserved a 4/10.It´s not a movie for everybody, just for gore/slasher and Jason fans.That what I used to think, but then I realized that I´AM a Jason fan.So I should like this movie.I think it should have been a straight to video movie.This film was not made for a theatre.

The plot: The year is 2455, hot babe Rowan(Lexa Doig) gets frozen in time with our partner Jason Vorhees in the year 2010.A bunch of college students and it´s professor discovers them, and take the two cold bodys in to their ship.
After they bring back to life Rowan(With new cool and unrealistic technollogy), Jason prepares itself to use the machete and slice and dice almoust everybody on the ship.

I had some fun watching this movie, It´s better than Halloween: Resurrection(4/10), but don´t get me wrong.This movie have some serious flaws.It´s too stupid, too unbelivable(I don´t know how to write it) and visual effects sucks on some scenes.
Sarcasm is great, Janessa was my favourite character on the whole movie.After Jason of course.
The biggest thing I hated here, was that stupid version of the terminator called KM-14.God I hated her!.The other teens were stupid too, but Kinsa was the lead.She was such an asshole(*Spoiler warning*) I mean, What the fucked happened when she tryies to scape and she crashes against the spaceship???, What a asshole!(*End of spoilers*).

The movie is a fun flick if you don´t think about it that much, but It surrelly deserves that 4/10 I gave it before.But, I just love Jason too much,, Although I think this is one of the bestmovies of the Friday the 13th series.
The worst one is withot a doubt Friday the 13th part 5: A new Beginning(1/10), that´s the worst movie I have ever seen.

Jason X...check it out if you want some cheesy fun.(I mean really really cheesy)

[VicVega]

Jason X (5.5/10)
Info: (2001) R, Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig
Runtime: 1 hour 32 mins
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
Tagline: “Evil gets an upgrade”
Comments: The only really good thing about this tenth installment into the “Friday the 13th” series is Jason himself. It’s great see veteran Kane Hodder step back into the boots of Jason for the fourth time. Everything else in this movie is horrible: the acting, the special effects, which reeked of CGI, the suspense, and, of course, the plot. This whole science fiction spin to the long running horror series pretty much sinks it into the ground. The year is 2455. A class aboard a spaceship accidentally lets loose maniac Jason Voorhees and he (shock!) goes on a killing spree. Some of the kills are inventive only because they have CGI backing them up. I very much prefer the old school Friday kills to this garbage. But the thing that really pissed me off the most was the horrendous acting. The actors didn’t believably react to the situation they were thrown in to. Jason fuckin’ Voorhees is chasing after us with a fuckin’ machete, I think we should stop when we have free time so we can make out. What the fuck? Not one bit of logic is present in this movie at all. However, next to ol’ Jason himself, the second semi-cool thing occurs later on. Without ruining the scene, I’ll just say that Jason steps back into an environment he is more familiar with and some laughs are produced.
Dialogue- 5.5/10 (Pretty cheesy stuff. And the only intelligent dialogue written was fucked up by the moron actors)
Violence/Gore- 7.5/10 (We get a few good kills, but like I said, they are mostly all CGI. We also get too many “cutaway” kills, which only allow us to see the aftermath of a dead body)
T&A- 6/10 (A sex scene and a few really good tit flashes later on)
Date viewed: 3/21/03

[urbanlegend23]

JASON X

Okay, I appreciate that some people out there are Jason fans but I don't understand how those people can give it 10/10's and such high ratings like that. One must simply ask himself if garbage like this film can be considered high art, or in other words, 10/10. I've read reviews stating how 10/10 this movie is because it has "great gore scenes" and "is good." Are those really justifiable reasons for a high mark such as this? But of course it's not my decision. And I didn't HATE this movie, I just found it to be very...

DISAPPOINTING!! I have been wanting to see this movie for ages ever since I saw the poster on the internet somewhere. When I saw it had finally hit the video stores I grabbed a copy quick as a whistle, estactic to watch it. When I was watching this film it was kind of like...OOOK why was I anticipating this movie so much?

The film did have its good points, but first lets run through its bad. I just have to note that this film had zero suspense. Even though I hated Friday the 13th (3/10 or D) I even considered it to be quite suspenseful at times. This movie has really no suspense in the film at all. It basically "slice n dice as quick you can, you can't catch me in Jason, man." Everyone just gets killed off and there's no mystery or intensity behind it all. And the murder scenes aren't even that gory. The one good killing is near the very start of the film with the girl who gets her face frozen and then smashed to little bits. That rocked the house down!

Another enormously huge problem I had with Jason X was that it seriously lacked in the musical department. Both score and soundtrack suck big fat monkey balls here. The score is pretty much nowhere to be seen. Jason enters, there is little to no score. And then fucking Uber-Jason enters, and there's nothing. Oh wait, maybe I can hear air. How scary. This is frickin JASON VORHEES and then frickin UBER-JASON VORHEES can I please have some effective dramatic music? And where are the rock tunes dude? Did they run away?

A couple of other things I didn't really like here were certain scenes in particular, like most of the scenes that try to be funny (except one of them which is HILARIOUS and I'll mention later). Umm, let's see, almost all of the comedy fails here. "Its alright! He just wanted his machete back!!" How totally fucking stupid is that? I mean no-body is going to go jumping of buildings because of the bad "comedy" in Jason X but come on...they must be able to do better!! Or maybe not. Another thing I didn't like is how all these commando dudes go carrying around guns and shoot frickin' Jason, and they've already shot him like 40 million times before and they keep shooting him....um, guys, he obviously can't be killed with a gun, so why don't you just drops the big weapons and run for your life dudes? And Kay-Em's little shoot-em up scene - can someone else join me when I call out LAME? And some scenes are just boring overall, and the film as a whole is a little too long.

There was some good stuff here though. Most notably (and this is the good comedy bit) the happy campers scene. Holy crap, I'm still laughing from that! In fact I would probably quite happily watch Jason X again to see that scene all over again. "We love premarital sex!!!!" AHAAHAHAHAH!!!

Another thing I liked in this movie was the space setting. Most horror flicks these days are afraid to change the setting but this movie tries to do something really different with the slasher genre and I really respected that. The space setting doesn't ALWAYS work but it successful for the most part and much more original than most slasher films these days. Some of the ideas contributed here are actually really neat and very smart, like those worm things, first shown at the beginning of the film, and then they return to give us Uber-Jason. Coolio.

As for Uber-Jason, the dude really needed more screen time to be effectives. Okay, the red eyes really creeped me out and the mask rocked the house down but he only was in the movie for about 10 minutes max. I was expecting much more. Perhaps in the 11th and "final" instalment we'll see more of him.

The acting...well not much really can be said. The characters are basically there to be killed. Just go along and watch Jason slashing some serious ass, if you're a fan of the series you'll most definitely enjoy this film.

5/10

urbanlegend23 ©

[dh1989]

I found this film to be great right up to the point that Jason wakes up on the ship and makes his first kill. Everything after that is mediocre.

[Hannibal21]

This film is just a rehash of the past 'Friday the 13th' movies, the killings were cool but it's not scary at all, it's funny actually. 5/10

[blankpage]

I thought Jason goes to Hell: The Final Friday was really going to be the final friday!

Well, it wasn't.

I had no real interest to check out this film. I was never really a fan of the Friday the 13th movies. But it was summer, so I thought, why not?

Well, there were reasons for the "not".

The film has NO horror in in what-so-ever. I had this cranked up and still no jumps of scares. The kills weren't even all that great.

I think some people may enjoy this. It was bad, IMO, but it did have a fast pace. Luckily it didn't take up too much of my time.

Jason X was all in all, a pretty bad movie. It was fast paced, which was "okay", but it couldn't save this movie.

4/10

[Could Be Worse]

Originally posted by urbanlegend23
JASON X



Another enormously huge problem I had with Jason X was that it seriously lacked in the musical department. Both score and soundtrack suck big fat monkey balls here. The score is pretty much nowhere to be seen. Jason enters, there is little to no score. And then fucking Uber-Jason enters, and there's nothing. Oh wait, maybe I can hear air. How scary. This is frickin JASON VORHEES and then frickin UBER-JASON VORHEES can I please have some effective dramatic music? And where are the rock tunes dude? Did they run away?


urbanlegend23 ©

I don't know, the soundtrak was nothing great, but there was music was Jason entered, and enough to keep me interested.

[MisterTwister]

My Review for Jason X


Jason X... considered a piece of garbage by some horror fans and almost every critic is not bad to me, but 90 minutes of pure mindless fun. Growing up with the Friday the 13th series and actually liking it more than Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween had me excited to see a new sequel trying something different. The space idea was cool to me and when i heard of a cyborg Jason i was even more excitied. April 26th i sat in a theater with very little people and got ready for what was about to be 90 minutes of Killings, naked chicks and one pissed off horror villian. I walked out with a smile, cause i enjoyed Jason x and thought it was better than the last sequel. My only probelms really were the really weak music score and there was TOO much humor, specially for a horror film and specially for a Friday the 13th film. The film had all the usual stuff- a high bodycount with plenty of violent killings, female nudityand a fast pace. I suggest for those who have not seen it, rent it and than buy it cause it's alot better than most films out today.
7/10 (good)

[Anonymooo]

The Friday the 13th series never really interested me, so I haven't watched any of 'em... but on a whim, I picked up Jason X and gave it a whirl.

Yes, it was corny as shit. Fun, but again, CORNY AS SHIT.

This made me start watching the other movies (so far, only the first two, which were actually pretty good), and I'm willing to go all the way and see just how far it'll degenerate.

Jason X was more action-comedy-shocker than horror, 'cause never once did I feel afraid of Jason. That sucker's like a damn Dragon Ball Z character--he takes ludicrous amounts of punishment and keeps on coming back for more.

The sleeping bag scene deserves a 10/10, but the entire movie gets a big smile and a 6/10 from me.

[Fisting Ackbar]

Guilty pleasure of mine.

And yes, that sleeping bag scene was pretty

[Cronos]

A guilty pleasure of mine, i love it, cheesy fun

9/10

[SLAW]

It was lame, contrived, phony horse shit. This is a terrible terrible movie. JASON movies must really do well in video and DVD sales because given it bombed in theatres, I don't see any reason why these movies are still being made. It's rare that a character in a movie can utter a line that sums up the whole movie, "this sucks on so many levels." 3/10

[The Delfonics]

I enjoyed it in theater but I usually enjoy most things on a big screen. The only really redeeming part of the movie is the camp crystal lake flashback scene.

[Jim H]

I thought Jason goes to Hell: The Final Friday was really going to be the final friday!

Well, it wasn't.

Kind of like Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter... There have been seven sequels since that entry. Or, for Nightmare fans, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare.

I enjoyed Jason X. Like Jason Goes To Hell, it doesn't really feel like a Friday film though. Which is too bad, as I enjoyed several of the others in the series (parts 3, 4, and 6 being the best).

Many of the kills are pretty good, and there are plenty of them, the action is pretty good, and the whole thing is pretty darn funny at times. Like many films of this type, the ending can only be a disappointment, and I really didn't like the concept of Uber Jason. How about, just for once, Jason kills all the kids and that's the end?

7/10