SummaryStill haunted by his past, Tommy Jarvis - who, as a child, killed Jason Voorhees - wonders if the serial killer is connected to a series of brutal murders occurring in and around the secluded halfway house where he now lives.
SummaryStill haunted by his past, Tommy Jarvis - who, as a child, killed Jason Voorhees - wonders if the serial killer is connected to a series of brutal murders occurring in and around the secluded halfway house where he now lives.
The tone is crude, raunchy, and leering, with kill scenes combined with more nudity than usual; we’re even invited to check out a hot chick’s body after her face has been sliced in half by garden shears.
If The Final Chapter has too many and actually almost every characters on that film so unlikeable, A New Beginning has so many very likeable characters and i love it, again since the first one i still don't have a likeable usual couples characters in Friday The 13th series, including this one, and that's the only two that i still don't like but the rest is likeable and it's more great because A New Beginning set up a completely new type of story, i don't know if they gonna repeat this one in later movie, i hope not, and i like this new story, i enjoy it, A New Beginning kills is not as brutal as all the previous one but again because of a likeable characters and good story it make it better than ever, now there is still some cheesy and silly moment but in here it's not those type of cheesy and sillyness that are bad, i found it funny and entertaining, i enjoy almost everything in A New Beginning, a drastic step up from all previous movie especially The Final Chapter which i hate to death, A New Beginning fills with a lot of likeable characters that make it more fun to watch and also good enjoyable story and fun final battle between likeable characters and Jason, silly and cheesy in a very entertaining way and overall Friday The 13th: A New Beginning is the best in the franchise so far.
Friday the 13th A New Beginning I am genuine how surprised this movie was too be the stuff i heard is one of people's least fav to me I think the good is Jason which is cool like the mask in like a greyish tags and blueish tags which is odd but different you will know why when you see the movie why it is like that I enjoy Tommy Jarvis in this but he does not do anything which annoys me because I get the whole be is scared of Jason or something like that and having issues mentaly but it goes no where in this movie ok the mixed are the kills there is some cool ones but most kills in this film are cut aways so annoying like you get excited for a kill than you barley see it which is so annoying I think the negatives is they do way too much nudity wayyy to much and they don't try to build any characters either kills like every character possible in the movie which is so odd to do in a 5th movie or any Friday the 13th movies in general so all round i enjoyable this flick it is different kinda still could of been way better like I mentioned they did not do a lot of good in this mainly because to make another movie which does **** because had some good ideas fall so flat so I give Friday the 13th A New Beginning a B-
There is little suspense in the film; the identity of the killer is
heavily foreshadowed early on with a baroque music cue and a couple of
menacing glances. And the false endings, which have become standard in this
genre ever since "Carrie," reach laughable proportions here, because, yes,
there will be a sixth film in the series next year. Have a nice day. [25 March 1985, p.C5]
Even as you feel grateful to be able to laugh off this film, you realize that its humor is really only inuring you to a nonstop series of stabbings, slashings, impalings, stranglings and yet other means of killing. Be warned: For all its laughs, Friday the 13th -- A New Beginning (rightly rated R) is just one more nauseating sick joke. [25 March 1985, p.C6]
This one, set in a bucolic halfway house for disturbed children, is not entirely without Grand Guignol humor, but almost. It appears to have been paced by a metronome - a joke followed by a murder followed by a joke followed by a murder, until all but one of the featured played have been exterminated...It's worth recognizing only as an artifact of our culture.
And the rest of the movie? Same screaming, same endless chases, same breasts, same blood, same axe, same lack of explanation, same ending primed for another sequel. Is there a pattern emerging here? In short: same as it ever was, same as it ever was.
The kills are not that great and yes, this is the film with the copycat killer, but a few of the kills are great, most of the new character are fun, and Tommy is given another great actor.
I don't mind the twist, as I see it as Jason's impact is so large and inspirational someone copied him.
*SPOILERS* So I think everyone pretty much hated this one when it first came out. It's sort of like the Halloween 3 of the series just alot better mostly because the film still delivers on the tropes that are expected. This time around young Tommy is grown and he is crazy and fine. Still traumatized from the events of the last film he's been put in a house for troubled youth by Camp Crystal Lake (like that makes sense). He's also learned self defense and is still into FX. Well a killer emerges after one of the clients is brutally murdered by the ultra hot bad boy Mark Venturini of Return of the Living Dead. The paramedics come to pick up the pieces and spoiler alert one happens to be his father. His retaliation= He dresses up as Jason and tries to kill everyone. It's a lame twist but the kills are great and the boys are smoking. In the end it's all just overly mediocre and very trashy but it's aged well over the years and is far more entertaining than it was when it initially was released.
3/5