Wonderful character development!

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Best " Friday the 13" so far!! You need to watch this movie ASAP..

A group of young adults discover a boarded up Camp Crystal Lake, where they soon encounter Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions. After all those awful sequels like Jason takes Manhattan or Jason X the series found a breath of fresh air with the best of all the Friday the 13th movies and guess what? it's a Reboot and a pretty cool one. The movie is packed with actual terror and for once even the nudity and the sex scenes weren't that stupid plus Padalecki and Panabaker were very good and Derek Mears was way better than Kane Hodder. (10/10)

This is pretty much what you'd expect from producer Michael Bay and director Marcus Nispel (whose 2003 "Texas Chainsaw" revamp wasn't bad at all, but there's not much to say for his films since, including the "Conan the Barbarian" remake): It's slick, loud, has a lot of action, no interesting ideas or individual style, and is watchable but just not very good-in short, an acceptable time-waster you probably won't even remember whether you saw in a year or two. It feels more generic than some of the original "Friday" films, even though it's better produced than most were. Here we get a brief prologue of the (restaged) first film's ending, then what seems like the very hasty dispatch of a new set of modern-day victims-but it turns out they comprise just ANOTHER prologue, and the "real" story starts twenty-odd minutes in and six weeks later. Now we've got yet more nubile young campers on the chopping block, this group slightly more differentiated by virtue of being including a black guy, an Asian guy, and a gay guy, plus the usual blonde babes and alpha male jerk rich kid who owns the deluxe country "cabin" where they're spending the weekend. Not traveling with them is the brother of a missing girl whom we know didn't make it past the first reel. We also meet a few of the local rubes, who are mean toward outsiders and thus deserve their own grisly fates. In addition, we briefly see Jason after he loses a hood and before he finds a hockey mask. He is not pretty, but it really seems a bigger deal should be made of his unmasking than this movie bothers with. The script doesn't really replicate the first film's narrative, such as it was, but neither does it come up with any notable updates beyond the news that the woods around old Camp Crystal Lake are now full of illegal marijuana-itself a more recent horror cliche. (Like sex, you covet the weed, you're gonna die.) The deaths are violent, natch, but rather perfunctory, as if Nispel weren't all that interested-but come on, what's the point of making a "Friday the 13th" movie if you're not going to make the deaths spectacular? I guess you could say "To expand upon the mythology/backstory," but this movie doesn't make the least effort in that direction. If anything, Nispel's "Friday" de-mythologizes Jason to no obvious benefit, as we eventually see way too much of him, and have to accept the far-fetched notion that he's simply been living in the abandoned camp for nearly four decades undetected while people frequently disappear forever in the area. Yet as before, he's here, he's there, he's everywhere without ever making a noise, like the semi-supernatural Jason of yore. There's a bit of a "Texas Chainsaw" vibe to the fact that we realize Jason sometimes keeps victims alive for a while in the catacombs beneath a cabin, but no explanation whatsoever why. This being a Michael Bay joint, there is some routine loutish humor and Hooters-level ogling. I'm pretty sure if someone actually came up with a script that exploited T&A but was actually kinda clever about it, he'd say "That's too smart for my audience." (No, you're underestimating your audience.)This movie is well-shot and energetic with OK performances, but I'm pretty sure at some point in the near future I won't even be able to remember whether I saw it, or am simply confusing it with some other horror sequel/reboot.

Typical horror movie with bunch of idiot teenagers, one smart guy, a killer and a lot of sex scenes but well, it wasn't like i was expecting something else. The only reason why i watched it was Jared Padalecki and really, he was the only good thing about this movie. He at least wasn't the one playing one of these morons who get themselves killed because they 're just too stupid to survive.