Jason X Critic Reviews
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The premise of Jason X is silly but strangely believable.Read the full review
Feels 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.Read the full review
A moviegoer's only defense against Jason is to avoid theaters showing this gruesome and derivative movie.Read the full review
Even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scent of Todd Farmer's screenplay.Read the full review
Further proof that titular antagonist Jason Voorhes is ready for retirement -- to videostore shelves.Read the full review
A protracted and only sporadically imaginative menu of ways to be murdered.Read the full review
Too much of Jason X plays it straight, and that means boredom. Murder and mayhem of this sort quickly becomes monotonous.Read the full review
It will come as no surprise that the movie isn't scary. But here's the real damn: It isn't funny, either.Read the full review
Jason X sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought. Only its title works.Read the full review
The 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.Read the full review
