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80A 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.
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58Has cheesy effects and a hoary plot, but its macabre, self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot.
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The premise of Jason X is silly but strangely believable.
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50The 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.
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40It gets much more watchable in the last half-hour.
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40Feels 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.
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38Jason X conjures up more giggles than scares, assuming you make it through the first 15 minutes.
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38If 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.
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38There'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.
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38A moviegoer's only defense against Jason is to avoid theaters showing this gruesome and derivative movie.
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38This 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."
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30Even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scent of Todd Farmer's screenplay.
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30Further proof that titular antagonist Jason Voorhes is ready for retirement -- to videostore shelves.
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30A protracted and only sporadically imaginative menu of ways to be murdered.
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25Too much of Jason X plays it straight, and that means boredom. Murder and mayhem of this sort quickly becomes monotonous.
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20Despite 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.
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20The kind of a moron movie, which is built to be watched by people who haven’t even seen the other nine.
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16It will come as no surprise that the movie isn't scary. But here's the real damn: It isn't funny, either.
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12Jason X sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought. Only its title works.
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12The 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.
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10Like a dinner-theater version of the "Alien" movies without the good grooming.
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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.
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0It had a little originality, unlike the other sequels, but not much.
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Negative: 17 out of 36