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Jason X [VHS]

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I've recently just seen a copy of Jason X. Before seeing the movie, I was absolutely pumped. I mean we haven't seen a new "Friday" movie in nearly 10 years so this was really exciting for me. So how was it?

Well I am happy to say that while it does have its flaws, Jason X doesn't disappoint.

The opening credits start off very creatively(for a Jason movie that is) where we get to see inside Jason's head and get to see his brain and all. Pretty neat stuff, cause I never would of expected it in this movie. After the opening credits we start off at some research place where we get our first glimpse of ole jason where he is all chained up on a harness.(how he got there is beyond me) Scientists are studying him to try to find out what he is all about. From there Jason gets loose and the first killings begin. After a few kills, Jason and a hot girl are cryogenically frozen together only to be unfrozen 100s of years later and then the real carnage begins!!

Well, I can tell you that for a relatively low budget movie this baby looks pretty good. The set designs and space ship all look top notch. You'll be surprised you aren't watching James Camerons Aliens or something-they're that good.

As for the acting, well this is a Friday the 13th movie. So you cant expect anything top notch. Its not awful, (actually its probably the best in a while) but its nothing special. The teens are basically just as dumb as ever and you'll know who's gonna be killed. All they think about is sex,sex, and more sex. There are some very hot chicks in this movie, most notably, the lead female. Kane Hodder on the other hand is in fine form here. He does Jason better than anyone, and he just has this role down perfect. His look is a little different than in the previous movies but he's still the same badmother he's always been.Though you gottta wonder why his mask keeps changing from movie to movie. There is also an android character here that is surprisingly funny and enjoyable to watch(especially when we see her kicking Jasons ass) and was greatly appreciated here. As for the script,well it contains some pretty bad dialogue at times(as mentioned earlier, this is a Friday movie) but doesn't get out of hand too much. My favorite line has to be "Its gonna take more than that to bring this old dog down......yeah, that outta do it." This comes from the tough sergeant dude and is pretty funny.

Now, you're probably wondering about the gore. Is there alot? Or does it disappoint? Well i'd say its easily one of the more gruesome entries in a while. We get some creative killings here, my favorite being when Jason forces a girls head into some kind of frozen liquid where her head freezes completely and then Jason smashes her head against a counter top. Cool stuff. There's also plenty of gun shots at Jason. In the end, we get a pretty high body count here, probably one of the highest(if not highest) in the series. You won't be disappointed here.

And then there's the UBER Jason. I was mixed on this.On one hand its something new for the series, which is good because its basically been the same old same old for all the movies. On the other hand it seems kinda stupid seeing Jason all "high tech" looking. He basically looks like some kind of super robot. Ever see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles part 2? Remember Super Shredder? Uber Jason kinda reminded me of him alot. And that's not a good thing. Jason Voorhees should look like Jason Voorhees. Nuff said.

But in the end, I came out of the movie extremely satisfied. Just about all you could want in a Friday movie is here. I got all the Jason, blood and gore, and hot chicks I could ask for. Its Jason X baby, and you wont be disappointed.
BY RYAN

Quite simply, this is the most intelligent "slasher flick" since...well...probably ever. This tenth installment of the Friday the Thirteenth series culminates the best parts of the series and pokes fun at itself for the worst. The plot is as deep as necessary, but not insultingly shallow as horror movies typically are. The teens being stalked are not as mindless as the genre's predecessors, and the stuntman-turned-actor Kane Hodder shows where his cult following comes from as Jason.
For those looking for new, creative death scenes, Jason X certainly delivers, with not one scene change leaving you wondering how Jason killed the last victim.
The writing doesn't worry with such matters as "How is Jason back from Hell?" or other trivial thoughts...he's just here, and he's not very happy about it.
From the horror fans, to the "I only watch at Halloween" buyers, Jason X is certainly deserving of ownership, because let's be honest, we all take pleasure in horror movies at one time or another, and this movie is just fun. If it was worth looking up a review on, you have enough interest for this movie to all out entertain you; not to mention there are a healthy amount of bonus features actually worth watching, including a history of the character Jason, and a making of Jason X.

I'm a big fan of the Friday the 13th series in fact I have all 9 movies on tape and some on DVD. BUt even I wasn't expecting much from Jason X, but I was pleasantly surprised! THis is a VERY good action/horror movie. It starts in 2010 in Crystal Lake where Jason is being held captive and is about to be transported by the Army. Jason escapes but is frozen with a girl in a chamber. THey both are discovered more than 400 years later, by a spaceship of earthlings. Earth 1 is uninhabitable and they are to be transported to Earth 2. THis is great imagination and some very fresh story-telling. As expected Jason thaws out and runs amuck. THe kills here are spectacular! Jason kills one girl by freezing her head and then shattering it!! The directors and producers of this film did a magnificent job in giving new life to this over 20 year old franchise. THey didn't just make another sequel, they wove a great story with some great action and some good old-fashioned stalker horror thrown in. ANd this is after all a Jason film so at the end as a bonus they tie in the Crystal Lake origins to the film. THe ending is really over the top and I won't give it away because its THAT good! GO see this film in the theater if you get a chance, its a great movie for all us old-time Jason fans to get into, lets hope they make more Jason films!

It's been too long since a "Friday the 13th" film stalked the theatres, with this in mind, it gives me great pleasure to announce to all the hardcore Jason fans out there that "Jason X" is worth the wait. While this isn't the best entry in the long running classic series, this film serves up enough gore and violence to entertain horror fans for 95 minutes. Unfortunately, there's some bits sprinkled throughout this movie (and a few terrible characters too) featuring some truly stupid humor that does detract from the proceedings, but overall, there's enough to like about "Jason X" that should please all Friday fans out there, as well as people just looking for a fun, popcorn crunching way to enjoy an evening at the movies.

The film beings roughly around 2010 at the Crystal Lake Research Facility where Jason (Kane Hodder, returning to the role for the fourth time and giving what's probably his best turn as the killer) Voorhees has been caught and awaits cryo freeze under the supervision of Rowan (Lexa Doig). During one of the film's best sequences (with an amusing cemeo from director David Cronenberg), Jason is freed and several bloody deaths later, he's stalking sole survivor Rowan through the facility where she outsmarts the hulking madman and traps him in a cryo freeze chamber, only to be accidentally trapped herself.

It's here that the film jumps 400 years into the future, a group
of science students on a research field trip back to what is now referred to as "old earth" (an uninhabital place) discover both our hero and villian still frozen and well preserved. They are brought back onboard the ship Grendel where Rowan is thawed out, but it only takes minutes before Jason too is thawed and before long, he's off, stalking the Grendel; racking up what is sure to be the highest body count of the entire series. As the group of people on board the ship quickly dwindle beneath Jason's blade, the remaining students and single military soldier attempt to escape the ship, Jason's terror refuses to yield, and the masked maniac has one more surprise in store for the heros...

"Jason X" is far from the best "Friday the 13th" film, but it moves along at a fast enough pace and has enough moments (and some very attractive females) to keep viewers interested. Among the positive moments included are some very innovative kills and some particularly good special effects, not to mention a new although at times, refreshingly familiar, score from Friday alumni, Harry Manfredini. There are some beautiful women in the cast (especially Lexa Doig in the lead, whose also a very good actress) and a likable soldier, the leader of the squad played by Peter Mensah. One scene that will stand out for fans, is the virtual reality scene taking Jason back to Camp Crystal Lake during the summer of 1980. Although the scene never lives up to its full potential with the silly actresses spouting stupid, unfunny dialogue (an attempt to poke fun at the formula these films went by in the 1980s-but failing miserably), the scene is scored with the original music from 1980's "Friday the 13th" and is accompanied by a murder scene which is really quite funny. While it could've/should've been better, this scene is still one of the best, most nostalgic of the film.

Where "Jason X" flounders is the humor. Aside from one really funny line describing previous attempts of kill Jason over 400 years ago, this film drops the ball in the comic reflief department.

Overall however, "Jason X" works. It was fun and refreshing to see the big guy back on the screen after so many years and despite the above mentioned faults, it's a good time. This is the tenth entry in the "Friday the 13th" series, while it's not the best (that honor belongs to Fridays 1,2,4 and 6) film in the series, it's at least a good time, with an ending which is VERY entertaining, and one I wouldn't dream of giving away. When this film hits theatres (whenever that may be), it will surely provide moviegoers with a good solid 90 minutes of slasher movie fun, good and gory, like the ones they used to make!

Just saw Jason X in the unrated version in a world premiere in Cologne, Germany...and it`s awesome. This is the best part of the Friday the 13th series, believe me! The best thing is, how Jason looks this time, his costume( after he mutated) is very cool. The gore factor is very high, Jason kills as many people as never before( hopefully you`ll see the uncut version of this movie!!!). The film is indeed impressive in its use of special effects. In one scene, you even get to see a virtual reality, reproducing the old Camp Chrystal Lake. So, wait for Jason X...you won`t regret it!!!

I am convinced there are two camps of movie-goers: Camp 1 thinks that the goal of cinema is to explore the human condition, create an epiphany in the viewer, and make the audience better humans for having watched the film. Camp 2 just wants to have fun.

Jason X is the ultimate Camp 2 film (to say nothing of Camp Crystal Lake), perfect for a weekend night with beer, chips & salsa, and a few good (Camp 2) friends. And if sheer entertainment is the mark of a fine film, then Jason X approaches high art.

Jim Isaac helms the Friday the 13th series' 10th outing; this time the series' eponymous machete-killer is under military guard at the Crystal Lake Research Facilty. Naturally things go wrong, Jason slaughters the Army squad sent to transport him "elsewhere for study" (he even impales horror master David Cronenberg in an amusing walk-on), and it's up to nubile scientist Lexa Droig to lure him into a cryogenic freezing tankand contain him for future mayhem. Alas, Jason's machete pierces the tank and her ribs, freezing her as well.

Jump ahead 450 years; a salvage/research crew from the starship Grendel recover Droig and her hockey-mask wearing companion from the Cryogenic facility, and rescue both from an Earth which has become a burned-out, dead husk. What happens next isn't exactly the stuff of Roman Polanski: Jason is taken aboard the ship, Jason thaws out, Jason slaughters with abandon!

Of course, where director Jim Isaacs succeeds is by having fun with his dialogue, with the actors, and with the movie's far-future setting. Worried that Jason X is just Alien with a machete and a hockey mask? Fear not. Director Isaacs plays with space walks, the destruction of a space station, nanotechnology gone wrong, and even a holodeck scene---the funniest scene in horror movie history, in which the crew re-create Camp Crystal Lake to distract Jason, even conjuring up two toke-smoking, bikini-clad, topless teenage girls who just "love pre-marital sex."

Better still, Jason X underscores why guys like K. Eric Drexler, Bill Joy, and Mike Crichton are worried about nanotechnology----who cares about grey goo destroying the world, when nanotech makes Jason a better serial killer! The scene where an army of little nanites rebuilds Jason is worth the price of admission alone.

Set design is cheesy but workable, acting is---well, we don't watch Jason flicks for acting, but a sexy android and cute victims in spandex make up for that---and the deaths are cruel even by the standards of the franchise's typical sadism. Victims get their necks snapped slowly, decapitated, dipped face-first in liquid nitrogen and then have their faces shattered, impaled on an industrial screw, sliced to death by machete, and even pulled through a grate.

DVD extras are amusing as well---you can use the "Jump to a Death" to instantly access your favorite Jason kills, the director/write commentary is amusing, and the two documentaries are enjoyably done. The only misfire is the soundtrack by Henry Manfredini, which sounds like a South Park-style parody and loses the movie one star; a heavy-metal soundtrack with some Rob Zombie and Manson would have been more fun.

All in all, Jason X doesn't change the world, address the human condition, or reinvent cinema. That said, with the exception of the first Friday the Thirteenth, it's easily the best in the series; if this is your sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.

Jason X is no work of art that's for sure. The basic stalk 'n' slash formula is loud and clear but this time round there is so much more color and invention that provides decent distraction whenever big J isn't onscreen doing his murdering thingy.

The idea of setting it in space is sure odd but Crystal Lake was seriously overdone and although it seems very eccentric Jason seems to fit in with the spaceship location. As long as there are enough people for him to slaughter anyway.

It may lack the menace and dread of the previous films but at least it has a credible sense of humor and touch of irony. This film does a good job of re-inroducing Jason to a 21st century audience. And we will be getting even more of him soon when Freddy vs Jason is released next year.

The direction and imagination in previous installments were pretty amatuer but Jim Issac proves he's got some skill in this 'un. The SFX are flawless and the digital quality of the film really gives a futuristic sparkle. Which is well represented on the DVD.

New Line put Paramount to shame with this DVD. The extras are very cool ('especially the 'Many lives of Jason Voorhees' documentary) and the commentary is ace. THIS is how the franchise should be treated on DVD. The 1.85:1 anamorphic picture is superb and the DTS 5.1 sound rocks.

It has been a while since Jason was last seen being dragged into hell by Freddy Kruger, an ending I frankly didn't like to "Jason goes to Hell." I've always been a Jason fan and I think his movies should stand alone,he doesn't need any help slicing and dicing his way across the screen. I'm glad they didn't go with the Jason vs Freddy angle here. And I have a message to all the critics who I'm sure are readying their pens to dump all over this latest installment, DONT BOTHER! We know the acting will probably be horrible and the story line won't be poignant and meaningful and it DOESN'T MATTER! If it's Oscar calibur performances you want, go see "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" (somebody has to.) Leave us and our slasher film alone, it doesn't need to make sense or even tie into part 9. All we need is 1) Jason and his Hockey Mask (wouldn't be right without it) and 2) Nudity and Blood (wouldn't be right without those either) and that's it. I've been a fan of Jason's since 1982 and I plan to be here til the bloody end (pun intended.) I'm looking forward to this movie and wish they would have released it this year, around October would have been good. In closing let me just say load up the Spacestation Fodder, Jason's back and it's about time!

I have to admit I was the first to say: "Aww man, here's another Leprechaun 4 or Hellraiser Bloodline", but I was completely blown away that this movie was really good. Even without the biggest effects placed (I saw a preview in which most FX hadn't been done yet) this movie still rocked.The best thinkg is that even though it's in space it still maintains the "Friday the 13th" feeling of 1-4 and 6 while giving it a new spin and even makes fun of itself at some points. The cameo by David Cronenberg is pretty cool too. I think the best thing about this movie is that it doesn't mention a thing about what happened in "Jason Goes To Hell" which completely destroyed the franchise. It also gives space for future sequels in modern time too, I just hope that if they do make other sequels they are as refreshing as this one.

I was very lucky to see this film in advance of it's theatrical release and I must say that Jason X is a great movie. At first I was skeptical because Jason in space didn't sound like a good idea. Well, my fears are put to rest. This movie has so much going for it! First of all, it has a very high body count. Someone's buying the farm every couple minutes. This movie has action from the very beginning and never lets up. I can't really say too much without giving away anything. Just take my word for it. Although Jason X may be a big change from previous Friday the 13th films, I think that any TRUE Jason fan will be very happy with this movie. There's even a point in the movie where we actually see Jason back at good old Crystal Lake. Go see this movie when it comes out and then you'll understand what I mean. Even though I've already seen it I'll still see it in the theater just for the sake of seeing it on the big screen. It'll also be great to see how other people react to the movie. JASON X ROCKS!