After his supposed demise at the end of Jason Goes to Hell, Jason once again makes another return in a tenth movie. How he gets out of hell is never explained. He's just there.
As for the movie itself, it's downright silly. At the beginning, Jason's all chained up in a research facility at Crystal Lake. Surprise, surprise, Jason gets out and kills everyone except for one rather attractive woman who manages to lock up Jason in a cryogenics chamber, but ends up getting wounded and frozen herself as well. Now flash forward a few hundred years into the future. Earth is burnt out and no longer habitable. A group of students from "Earth 2" discover both the woman and Jason. They bring both onto their ship in space and Jason gets loose. Now I didn't expect that at all...
Honestly, other from the change of scenary, there's really nothing new here. Jason kills and kills. Plus, the whole movie was just cheesy. The sets are really fake looking, which resulted the movie appearing like a bad sci-fi show. The acting was not very good, but what do you expect from a Jason movie? Also, Jason himself didn't look very good. He even looked better in Jason Goes to Hell(although he's not in that one very much). What I'm saying is that Jason didn't look very intimidating in this film. He had quite a bit of hair on his head this time, and he even seemed kinda human. He goes through a transformation later, and his new look makes him look even more stupid. As if the idea that he could possess bodies in Jason Goes to Hell was not stupid enough, they practically make him into a robot/mutant later in this movie. Plus, that whole bit about how he could regenerate was just lame. He wasn't able to do that in the other movies.
The characters in this film are utterly forgettable. Just about all of them get killed. There are even space marines in this too and Jason manages to kill them all as well. The kills are not very impressive either. At least the other Jason movies had some interesting kill sequences. But the ones in this movie seem tame in comparison to those movies. The only kill that was sort of cool was when Jason kills that woman by freezing her head and smashing it to pieces. Other than that, there's really nothing else.
This is not something I'm going to keep watching over and over again. In fact, I may not watch it ever again! Let's just enjoy the Jason we know and love from the Friday the 13th films. Some of them, the first four for example, were actually creepy, and the sixth one was pushing it a little bit because that's where Jason was brought back to life, but it was actually pretty good in my opinion. Jason X didn't have that feel. Jason X is a joke. Just stay away from it. If you like Jason Vorhees, stay AWAY from Jason X.
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Jason doing what he does . . . again
Added 8/30/2009
Jason X begins with Jason Vorhees being studied as to why his cells continue to regenerate allowing him to escape death over and over. In a transfer to another facility he naturally escapes and kills everyone except one woman who tries to freeze him cryogenically but Jason breaches the chamber and they both get frozen. They are found 450 years later and brought on board a space craft where a scientist and his team of teenage students revive them and mayhem ensues.
I thought the premise to get Jason to space and catapult him ahead a few centuries was kind of clever and there are some moments of humor throughout the movie that worked, but otherwise it's the same old same old. No one can act, they all do stupid things that no one not in a horror movie would do and Jason just walks around slaughtering everyone. There is no originality beyond the opening and I guess its debatable just how original that was.
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I liked it when I watched it the first time. And I had to order it to go with the collection of the other Jason movies I have
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WORST HORROR MOVIE IVE SEEN.
Added 7/6/2009
I just finished watching Jason X.
I waited this long (about 7 years since its release) to watch this movie. I already knew it was going to be horrible, but I seriously had NO IDEA it was going to be this bad!
First off, I am a huge fan of the horror genre, and a HUGE Friday the 13th / Jason fan. I own every Friday the 13th film (except for this one). They have ranged from great to so-so or even cheesy. But overall, I have always enjoyed seeing one of my favorite Horror icons on the screen, causing mayhem, and sending people running with terror, and leaving us viewers watching and waiting for more.
Friday the 13th part 8 and 9 (jason takes Manhattan , and Jason goes to hell) are probably the worst of the series I had seen, until today. Now, instead of taking Jason out of his Crystal Lake woods and thrusting him onto a party ship, then the city streets of Manhattan, or even taking Jason out of the picture as he possesses bodies like he a virus or spirit, Jason X has taken him into space for a tacky, low budget, desperate attempt to be original while cling onto something from the original vision of Jason.
First, Jason himself, looks and feels "C-grade film'. The costumes are tacky, and look like Halloween store rentals. The failed attempts to paint a futuristic 2400's through cheesy sets and horrible costumes, look in fact very "present day" and very ridiculous. The space ship looks of plastic and tacky flashing lights. Also, there is NO character development. When Jason attacks, you really don't know who the victim is, nor do you care. Not to mention, it seems the fellow crew members dont care either. The acting is so bad, that the exploring soilders or students find bodies and react so artificially, or non emotionally, you wonder if they are fresh out of acting school or even went. There's a (typical) android humanoid who is a kind of "sex bot" and the typical money hungry villian whose selfishness allows for a shallow plot to turn to mayhem. But he ends up getting his! (Surprise Surprise.) Just as you realize this is predictable, and you feel really uninterested.. then it gets WORSE!!!! Jason goes from his already horrible attempt to look like the original Jason Voorhees, to a new, Cyborg Jason, stomping around in a HORRIBLE robo-hockey mask, and robotic arm complete with cheesy robo muscles on the biceps and chest. And we're not talking believable Cyborg looks here (like terminator etc) We're talking plastic and foam with cheap paint ridiculous prostetics. Absolutley pathetic. Additionally, the movie itself isn't even decent. Setting aside my love of Friday the 13th and of Horror films, the movie had no flow, no climax, nothing interesting about it. Its poorly done. Plain and simple. The look, feel, script, acting, sets, costumes, and "scare factor" are on par or even lower with a Sci-Fi Channel original movie. (Emphasis on the 'Lower').
Any fan of horror, or the Friday the 13th series, or even of a good movie in general... BEWARE! The only thing that's scary about this movie, is how it got signed off on, and how you got stuck watching it. Rental movie for sure! You'll want your $4 back afterwards. I know I felt swindled.
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JasonX was ok but not the best sequel. My favorite sequel was friday part5 witch people say was was the worst friday. jasonx was good but it kind of seems 14a movie when jason turns into jasonx. still see this movie it was good 28 kills the most kills ever seen in a jason movie. I was 13 when i saw jasonx and i love these movies ,if you like these movies see jasonx.
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