JASON X
  
STARRING: Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, Lisa Ryder, Chuck
Campbell, Jonathan Potts, Peter Mensah, Melyssa Ade, Todd Farmer, Melody
Johnson
2001, 93 Minutes, Directed by: James Isaac
 Description:
Legendary Friday The 13th killer Jason Voorhees returns for the tenth time,
this time stalking victims aboard a space ship in the year 2455. —
Amazon.com
Jason
X is Friday the 13th Part 10.
That’s right: that is the
slasher movie series where the guy in the hockey mask kills off the
teenagers one by one. The serial killer in question’s name is Jason and,
after he has been killing off teenagers at a deserted camp site in nine
movies for over two decades or so, the producers decided that it was time
for something different. So this time around, Jason will be killing off
teenagers in outer space instead, which is why you are reading this
review on this particular site.
Just for the heck of it, I listed all the Friday the 13th movies at
the bottom of this review. By the way, I just love the titles for Part 4
("The Final Chapter") and Part 5 ("A New Beginning").
Check how many (if any) you have seen. I think I saw the first three
movies. Yes, I know, I have a boundless capacity for self-torture. No, I
don’t why I watched them. If you had seen all of them, some psychiatric
help might be in order.
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"Teenagers like seeing other teenagers getting killed in movies
like this . . ." |
Incidentally,
the previous Friday the 13th movie was made in 1993 and was titled
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993). Promises, promises. With the unexpected recent
monetary success of two 1980s horror franchises to be revived (namely
Bride of Chucky and Halloween: Resurrection), it was probably no
doubt decided to give the granddaddy of them all a shot again. Whether
Jason X is as successful as the two movies I have mentioned is
debatable. The truth is however that, while it may not sound like it,
Jason X is a whole lot better than it has any right being.
A bit like Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Jason
is revived in the far future after being cryogenically frozen for several
hundred years. True to form, he starts killing off the teenagers manning
the space ship he is on immediately.
It may be
Alien rehashed with bits from
Terminator, Aliens and
The Matrix thrown in - but folks! This is a franchise that has been
around for some twenty years or so and 200 plus dead teenagers! Were you
really expecting any originality here? Yes, the acting is bad and the
special effects are cheap and achingly obvious. What the movie offers, it
delivers: teenagers being killed off in inventive and gruesome ways.
Now, I have always thought that teenagers like seeing other teenagers
being killed in movies like this, but the truth is that they like seeing
getting good-looking teenagers getting killed! (Something very unsocial
about that!) So roll on the body and breast count. Add to this some
unexpected tongue-in-cheek humor – after all, how can anyone take this
serious anymore? - and you have an unexpectedly fun time in front of the
TV.
Here they all are:
Friday the 13th
(1980)
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D (1982)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
Jason X (2001)
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