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Mixed or average reviews- based on 61 Ratings

  • Starring: Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig
  • Summary: 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)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 23
  2. Negative: 17 out of 23
  1. 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.
  2. Has cheesy effects and a hoary plot, but its macabre, self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot.
  3. 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.
  4. Jason X conjures up more giggles than scares, assuming you make it through the first 15 minutes.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 38
  2. Negative: 17 out of 38
  1. DaveD.
    9
    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. Expand
  2. Incredibly underrated imo. I really don't know see why people hate it so much. The acting is weak but what makes up for it is that it's so memorable and Uber-Jason is a complete bad-ass lol. Expand
  3. AnthonyF
    6
    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. Expand
  4. Its more of a comedy than a horror. It just ruined the entire Jason series. The first 3 are excellent but this one just had no scare. And a range of terrible deaths made a loss of action. Expand

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