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Jason X
New Line Cinema
MPAA RATING: R for strong horror violence, language and some sexuality
Starring
Kane Hodder,
Lexa Doig,
Lisa Ryder,
Chuck Campbell,
Jonathan Potts,
Peter Mensah,
Melyssa Ade,
and
Todd Farmer
Jason Voorhees, iconic movie villain, returns to the screen after a nine-year absence in the 10th installment of the classic Friday the 13th film series. (New Line Cinema)
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Todd Farmer
Victor Miller (characters)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
James Isaac
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 8, 2002
Video: October 8, 2002
Theatrical: April 26, 2002
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| RUNNING TIME: |
93 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
A happily self-aware body-count flick that's as brutally funny as it is plain-old brutal. A broad slash of scary, sci-fi fun, the project leapfrogs all the Scream and Last Summer junk to carve itself a new, high-tech niche.
58
Portland Oregonian
Chris Hewitt
Has cheesy effects and a hoary plot, but its macabre, self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot.
50
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
The film has spunk. Unfortunately, the gore comes with brutal regularity, so that, despite Farmer and Isaac's attempts to liven things up, the film still just wears you down.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
The premise of Jason X is silly but strangely believable.

40
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It gets much more watchable in the last half-hour.

40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Feels like it was written as a fairly straight horror/sci-fi movie, then script-doctored by a comedy writer intent on satirizing the original script. As a result, the film's intentional and unintentional laughs mingle so freely that it becomes difficult to differentiate between the two.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
If the 10th "Friday" sounds like the first "Alien," it's strictly intentional. Todd Farmer's script rips off that classic sci-fi horror film, replaces the acid-based monster with the hockey-masked Jason, adopts the self-mocking attitude of "Scream" and lets the heads, arms, legs and torsos fall where they may.
38
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
There's a hint of nostalgia toward the end, with Jason encountering two nubile female campers in a virtual reality Camp Crystal Lake -- but it merely serves as a reminder that the franchise should have quit while it was ahead.

38
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
Jason X conjures up more giggles than scares, assuming you make it through the first 15 minutes.

38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
This time the action takes us out of the usual campgrounds and girls in underwear into the realm of outer space, where no one can hear you screaming "Enough already."

38
USA Today
Claudia Puig
A moviegoer's only defense against Jason is to avoid theaters showing this gruesome and derivative movie.

30
The New York Times
Dave Kehr
Even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scent of Todd Farmer's screenplay.

30
Variety
Scott Foundas
Further proof that titular antagonist Jason Voorhes is ready for retirement -- to videostore shelves.

30
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
A protracted and only sporadically imaginative menu of ways to be murdered.

25
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Too much of Jason X plays it straight, and that means boredom. Murder and mayhem of this sort quickly becomes monotonous.

20
Film Threat
David Grove
The kind of a moron movie, which is built to be watched by people who havent even seen the other nine.

20
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Despite the futuristic setting, which relies so heavily on GGI effects that it looks like a feature-length production concept painting, this film is painfully predictable.

16
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It will come as no surprise that the movie isn't scary. But here's the real damn: It isn't funny, either.

12
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Jason X sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought. Only its title works.

12
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The only chills to be found are courtesy of your theater's central air, and the suspense will come from the wait to see which disappointed kid in a hockey mask will be the first to slash the screen.

10
Los Angeles Times
Gene Seymour
Like a dinner-theater version of the "Alien" movies without the good grooming.

10
Chicago Reader
Hank Sartin
Here suspense is abandoned, and Jason is on-screen so long you get sick of seeing him -- and sick of the poorly staged slasher-film tricks.

0
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
It had a little originality, unlike the other sequels, but not much.


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