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Jason X

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 23 critic reviews
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Based on 42 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Todd Farmer
Victor Miller (characters)
Directed by: James Isaac
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 26, 2002
DVD: October 8, 2002
Running Time: 93 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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)
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What The Critics Said
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...
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.
Portland Oregonian Chris Hewitt
Has cheesy effects and a hoary plot, but its macabre, self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot.
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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Jonathan Curiel
The premise of Jason X is silly but strangely believable.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder
Jason X conjures up more giggles than scares, assuming you make it through the first 15 minutes.
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
A moviegoer's only defense against Jason is to avoid theaters showing this gruesome and derivative movie.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dave Kehr
Even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scent of Todd Farmer's screenplay.
Read Full Review >Variety Scott Foundas
Further proof that titular antagonist Jason Voorhes is ready for retirement -- to videostore shelves.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
A protracted and only sporadically imaginative menu of ways to be murdered.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Too much of Jason X plays it straight, and that means boredom. Murder and mayhem of this sort quickly becomes monotonous.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour
Like a dinner-theater version of the "Alien" movies without the good grooming.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Steve Davis
It had a little originality, unlike the other sequels, but not much.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.6 (out of 10) based on 42 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Anthony F gave it a6:
The filmmakers have fun with the absurdity of the series in this one. Jason X is better than a lot of the original sequels partially because everyone involved in it knows it's stupid. The plot is stupid, the characters are stupid, the dialog is stupid, and we, the audience, for buying into it, are stupid too. For that, everyone is happy. Sort of.
Nick G gave it a0:
I give it a zero and that would be a compliment judging the fact I cannot give it a lower rating.This is by far the worst movie I've ever seen and I absolutely dreaded every second of it.What a sad excuse for a horror movie.I have seen by far better movies that get lower scores.It never seemed to work on any scene as it escaped from being a horror to a sci fi in space.
Paul D. gave it a2:
Becomes pointless when Jason can't be killed. Only saving grace is that it has some black humor. Time to retire the Friday the 13th series. Surely, 10 movies are more than enough.
Jackie gave it a1:
this movie was the stupidest movie i ever saw! all of Jason's movie are great but this one was a disappointing one!!! the plot was stupid and the at the end when he becomes updated was stupid!!! I don't recommend this movie!!
Dave D. gave it a9:
Not the best Jason film I've seen, but definitely the most imaginative. The special effects rock, it's freakin hilarious, and some of the characters are cool too. Plus, if anyone wants to see what one of these is like with character development and plot, pick up the novel of Jason X. It's surprising just how good it is.
Gabriel X. gave it a0:
Really, what a bad movie.
Lewis C. gave it a 0:
Who the f.. are these people rating this film a 10, you are seriously screwed up, there was nothing either funny nor scary about this trash. I was unlucky enough to rent beings I was quite intrigued by the whole vorhees thing years ago but man does this film suck, and as for the special effects - how much of a budget did they have to spend on this shite, not amused.
