Jason X is a 2001 horror/sci-fi film and the tenth film in the Friday The 13th franchise. Jason X was also the fourth and final time Kane Hodder would the character Jason Voorhees. The film was produced by Crystal Lake Entertainment and Friday X Productions. It was distributed by New Line Cinema. The movie was written by Todd Farmer and directed by James Issac.
The story is it's 2455 and a group of students on a filed trip have found the frozen body of Jason Voorhees. They take his body onto there ship then when Jason is unfrozen he goes on a murderous spree. Now the teens must get off the ship before their all slaughtered.
Now before I get into the review part of this post I want to tell you a few things. It was for me anyhow tough to pick which bad Friday The 13th film to review. There's Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday or Jason X. But I thought to myself which one of these films had the dumbest idea and so I picked Jason X. Also funny story of how this film was made. This was Todd Farmer's only pitch he gave to New Line Cinema thinking this was a way to advance the film series and New Line Cinema was like yeah sure why not we still have that Freddy Krueger/Jason Voorhees crossover film stuck in development hell so let's make your awful premise into a movie. So enough of that let's get into the review.
My Thoughts
I already have a problem with this film in only the first three minutes. Why's that let me explain in four words Crystal Lake Research Facility. Yeah Crystal Lake went from being a summer camp to a research facility. So were off to "good" start I can't wait for more.
In the Crystal Lake Research Facility they have successfully captured Jason and were never told how they did that. Typical it is best to keep things a mystery but this is one of the things that need explained.
In the Crystal Lake Research Facility they have successfully captured Jason and were never told how they did that. Typical it is best to keep things a mystery but this is one of the things that need explained.
Then we get our first look at Jason and man does his new hockey mask suck. Both the eye holes are sucked in so now we can see both of his eyes and for whatever reason the costume designers decided to combine both the nose and mouth piece together. Also the mask is too small, so whenever Kane Hodder has to act like he got kicked in the chin and has to move his head upwards you can see his chin. What's even more weird is New Line Cinema used a hockey mask in their previous Friday The 13th film Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday and it looks good
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| The mask used in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday |
So why didn't they just use this hockey mask instead of the one we got for Jason X? I don't get it.
Then the movie continues to piss it's audience off because the security guard that was watching over Jason is killed but you don't get to see it. When you make a slasher movie like these the worse thing you can do is kill a character whether big or small off screen. It's just lame and cheap.
Then just to make matters worse we have this nipple scene
https://youtu.be/jblzpuNNsKM?t=100
You know what the saddest thing is about that scene? It's the only scary part of the entire movie.
The movie has no creative death scenes. Throughout Friday The 13th's history you would sometimes get a very creative kill but here a large majority of them is just Jason snapping someone's neck, stabbing them, slicing someone's throat open. The only good kill is this frozen head smash one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE83HUOXfh8. Also the movie was so desperate for another good death scene that they ripped off the sleeping bag kill from Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood.
None and I mean none of the acting is believable expect for Kane Hodder because all he had to do was act like Jason Voorhees which he does great at. Everybody always sounds like their reading directly from the script like it was their second take or they always talk in some sort of I'm trying to give some sort of emotion but not really. All of it was just painful to watch.
At one point in the movie a group of soldiers have to attack Jason. Not only don't we get any good deaths but we don't get any good action. It was just the soldiers looking for him and then they predictable get killed off. Also the scientist named Rowan once said that Sergeant Brodski is all alone down. The main problem with that line is how does she know that? She never saw any of the soldiers and there were no security cameras to show her and the students that. So how does she know this?
Now let's talk about "Uber Jason". Just look at him
Then the movie continues to piss it's audience off because the security guard that was watching over Jason is killed but you don't get to see it. When you make a slasher movie like these the worse thing you can do is kill a character whether big or small off screen. It's just lame and cheap.
Then just to make matters worse we have this nipple scene
https://youtu.be/jblzpuNNsKM?t=100
You know what the saddest thing is about that scene? It's the only scary part of the entire movie.
The movie has no creative death scenes. Throughout Friday The 13th's history you would sometimes get a very creative kill but here a large majority of them is just Jason snapping someone's neck, stabbing them, slicing someone's throat open. The only good kill is this frozen head smash one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE83HUOXfh8. Also the movie was so desperate for another good death scene that they ripped off the sleeping bag kill from Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood.
None and I mean none of the acting is believable expect for Kane Hodder because all he had to do was act like Jason Voorhees which he does great at. Everybody always sounds like their reading directly from the script like it was their second take or they always talk in some sort of I'm trying to give some sort of emotion but not really. All of it was just painful to watch.
At one point in the movie a group of soldiers have to attack Jason. Not only don't we get any good deaths but we don't get any good action. It was just the soldiers looking for him and then they predictable get killed off. Also the scientist named Rowan once said that Sergeant Brodski is all alone down. The main problem with that line is how does she know that? She never saw any of the soldiers and there were no security cameras to show her and the students that. So how does she know this?
Now let's talk about "Uber Jason". Just look at him
Guys this is not Jason Voorhees. This is a villain meant for the Power Rangers. I'm not joking. All you have to do is tone down his violent streak and give him a cheesy bad voice and this design is all set for an episode of the Power Rangers.
Look at this special effect when Jason punches off Kay-Em 14's head off.
Wasn't that just an unconvincing effect? That looked terrible and I noticed it when the footage was at it's regular speed when you slow it down it's even worse.
So I think I made it not big surprise that I hate Jason X. The premise is stupid, the acting is terrible expect from Kane Hodder, a lot of times our characters are brain dead morons, that nipple scene was gross and distributing, the death scenes minus the frozen head one were boring, I hate Uber Jason's look and overall it's just an awful movie.
My final rating is Destroy It!
Other Media
Now this aspect of Friday The 13th didn't go away like many people hoped it would. There have been five novels based on Jason X. Here's the list
Jason X (a novelization of the movie)
Jason X: The Experiment
Jason X: Planet of the Beast
Jason X: Death Moon
Jason X: To The Third Power
It didn't stop there either, Avatar Press released two comic books related to Uber Jason. The first one was called Jason X Special published in October of 2005 and the other one was when Uber Jason fought classic Jason in the two issued comic series Friday The 13th: Jason vs. Jason X published in February of 2006. Then Gun Media released a Friday The 13th video game at one point during the game's early development they had a poll held by the developers to determine the different incarnations of Jason Voorhees one of them being Uber Jason. The character didn't get enough votes to be put in the game. However Gun Media didn't rule out the possibility of Uber Jason he could always be a DLC, shortly after the game was launched Ronnie Hobbs a producer for Gun Media and one of the co-creators of the game asked fans on Twitter for help locating any good quality Uber Jason mask and costume.
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