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"The absolute best, just as good as Jason Takes Manhattan!"
Well, from my review you can tell that I loved this movie just as much as I loved Jason Takes Manhattan, so allow me to break it all down for you. Jason X takes place in the year 2455, on a Class V Catamaran transport ship full of teens, teachers, and the E-X Grunts, who are a special forces crew hired to protect the ship. On an archeological expedition on the now dead and wasted planet Earth, they have discovered the cyrogenically frozen bodies of 19-year-old female scientist, Rowan (Lexa Doig), and the notorious killer himself, Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder). Rowan is easily reanimated back on the spaceship (which is called Grendel), and to their misfortune, Jason defrosts and lives again. He begins to eliminate everybody on the ship, one by one, until finally the android, Kay-Em 14 (Lisa Ryder) is uploaded and blows Jason to Hell. But, unfortunately, Jason lands on a regeneration/reanimation table and is transformed into Uber-Jason, a new, extremely beefy metal Jason, who is now basically completely unbeatable...
Well, I'd have to tell you that the reason most people hate this movie is because it takes place on a spaceship instead of on Earth at Crystal Lake. But I happen to think differently, I really like the idea that they pulled Jason away from Crystal Lake, landed him on a spaceship, gave him a whole new look, and increased the body count incredibly. Jason doesn't turn to Uber-Jason until about 2/3 of the movie is up, but I think New Line did a good job at making the regular Jason a bit more muscular (even though Kane Hodder, who used to be a wrestler, has played the killer since part 7), and the hockey mask has changed. The holes on it are further apart, it only bares the red triangle in the middle of the forehead but just above the eyeholes, and the nose is more narrow and halfway towards being completely flat instead of the oval-shaped nose that sticks out like on the previously worn hockey masks. Uber-Jason had an extremely cool look, and I really liked how they finally were smart enough to give him red eyes, I always thought they should have since day one. I also liked his new mask, I liked how it stayed true to the old mask but at the same time looked like something that is completely new and mysterious. And I would like to say that Mr. Hodder did a better job as Jason in this than in any of the other films, and I thought it was creepy in the beginning when Jason was walking after Rowan and it was just his silhouette because of that bright light behind him (a.k.a. the scene where he followed Rowan to the Cryo-stasus chamber). So, DVD or VHS, it doesn't matter, Jason X is movie that I think any true-blue Jason fan should see, or even if you're in the mood for a good horror/sci-fi slasher flick. Keep an eye out for similar films such as Freddy vs. Jason (being filmed as you read this in Toronto/Ontario, Canada), and Terminator 3, due in theatres July 2, 2003.

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Jason X promises gold, and delivers lead - instead
For those who haven't yet seen a pre-screening or bootleg of this movie, and are F13 fans... don't expect any more than the standard F13 formula. Yes, even though this time it's in space.

I won't run down the overall plot, because if you're a friday fan, you probably already know. But essentially it just takes the crystal lake setting, and replaces it with a space ship,- ala the cruise liner in part 8: Jason takes Manhattan.

I haven't seen the pre-screening or some version you can download off the net, I've seen the actual VHS bootleg that's been floating around Europe for several months now.

Overall... it's a mediocre affair, bordering on POOR which is why I give it 2 stars. Here's a quick rundown on why it gets 2 stars...

Acting: Acting is abysmal is this movie. It's passable, but NONE, not one of the actors either gives, or is given the chance to really stand out. Call it bad acting, or call it bad script... but what it translates to is stupid, paper thin characters you don't give a hoot about.

Plot: The plot, as usual... has the required resurrection of Jason, followed by numerous Jason style killings. Some funny, some gross, some not-so gross. This is the standard formula for Friday films, if you're okay with that, then fine, if you've been believing the hype that this is going to propel the series in a quantum leap foward, you're dreadfully mistaken... especially considering the end of the film virtually puts Jason right back where he started.

Originality: Originality is non-existent in Jason X. The imagery, action, atmosphere, special effects and pyrotechnics are all DIRECTLY derivative from science fiction movies we've all seen over the last 10-20 years.

Continuity: Continuity is YET AGAIN completely ignored. No proper explaination was given for the progrssion from part 8 to part 9, and the same has happened again with part 9 and part 10 (X).

These major flaws are why it gets 2 stars. So what are the good points? Why am I giving it 2 stars instead of 1? It doesn't have many good points, but there they are...

Cyber Jason: Jason gets a cyber upgrade, which makes him look like an extremely evil version of Robocop. This was a really nifty idea, but unfortunately, nothing was done with it. You only see Cyber Jason for about 10 minutes before he "dies".

Change Of Setting: Despite it's extreme lack of originality and montage of rip-offs, the change of setting is a welcome change. It will effectively change the series from "slasher horror" into "slasher sci-fi horror"... but that's cool, after 9 films in 1 setting, a change is a good idea.

...So that's it. When it comes out at the movies, don't see it unless you're the insatiably curious type with nothing to do. Wait for it on video. It's not that crash-hot.

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A really cool Jason movie
This movie is really really cool. It was a good twist to put Jason in space. I dont care if people say it is dumb after so many parts who ever didnt like it shouldn't have bother watching it.