Jason X
Jason X
R | 26 April 2002 (USA)
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In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives!

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Karry

Best movie of this year hands down!

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Cebalord

Very best movie i ever watch

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Lollivan

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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Neive Bellamy

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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rambofanlife-41678

Un watchable I can't stand this movie boring as hell. I couldn't continue watching it. Jason X more Jason in space is really awful horrible movie in my opinion. Whole movie makes no sense to me. This movie is unwatchable and incredible bad to watch. I can't comment anymore cause after 5 minutes in the movie I throw the disk out of my Blu-ray player. I can't decide which one is worse this or Jason Goes to Hell. Those two movies I can't stand. 1/10.

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coxbloken-00469

This is the best film ever made. The best film ever made used to be Jason Takes Manhattan, but now Jason is in space, which is crazier than Manhattan, so now Jason X is the best film ever made. Jason Takes Manhattan will have to settle for second place. Sorry, Jason Takes Manhattan.

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powermandan

After the abysmal "Jason Goes to Hell," anything seemed better. And why not make a movie so the amount of instalments is an even 10? Luckily, this goes back to same non-serious fun Jason films of previous instalments. And after watching the previous Jason movie, it really elevated Jason X.After being sent to hell in "Jason Goes To Hell," Freddy obviously resurrects him and his body-count in growing. It is the mid 2000s and Jason has been captured and cryogenically frozen. They freeze him because they can't figure out a way to destroy him forever. Only the supernatural can do it! But Jason's brutish strength messes things up and he gets frozen with one of the researchers. Fast forward 450 years. A group of college students are travelling on a spaceship and stumble upon Jason and the girl. Both are thawed and then the movie turns into Alien with Jason as the monster. When we get to see the students and their professor, its pretty silly. Good for laughs. When Jason awakens and tries to destroy all, we actually become invested. When Jason gets upgraded into the most powerful he could ever be, it's pretty kick-ass.In the year 2455, some of the futuristic things we see is pretty cool. And a spaceship is cool to see in general. And add one of cinema's coolest monsters to wreck havoc. The way all this is added up makes the movie totally bad-ass. Sure the acting is dull and its not very smart, but the fights and Uber Jason are all so fun! I gave some earlier instalments thumbs up just because they were fun and they didn't demand to be taken seriously. Jason X is one of those.

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MaximumMadness

Look, I'm gonna be up-front about this....I don't know why "Jason X" gets a free-pass from so many people. And I especially don't understand how so many people actually really enjoy it or find it "entertaining." I really just don't get the appeal of it at all, nor can I really figure out what it hopes to accomplish.It's a film that aspires to be so much more than it is, but it never lives up to even a hint of what it promises. It's a contradictory film from scene to scene. On one hand, it fancies itself a subversive satire along the lines of "Jason Lives", yet it only delivers the occasional jest at its own expense. On the other hand, if often plays the material straight for attempts at honest thrills, yet these are contradictory to its lighter moments. It occasionally gets the idea that it's an effects spectacle on the rare occasion for more complex sequences, but it's hindered by a low budget. Yet it also frequently seems aware of its cheap cost in other scenes.It's like watching someone trying desperately to put together two different jigsaw puzzles after the pieces have become inadvertently mixed together. Nothing fits.We all know the plot... It's "Friday the 13th" in space. Jason gets cryogenically frozen (along with sexy scientist Rowan, portrayed by Lexa Doig) in modern times, only to be awakened on a spaceship 400 years later, so he can hack up stupid, nubile teens... in the future!Blah, blah, blah. He kills a few, gets blown apart by a sexy android chick (Lisa Ryder), gets brought back with magical future medical-technology as a half-robotic "Uber Jason", and chaos ensues. (That was all in the trailer, so there's no spoilers there.) It's a rinse and repeat of almost every previous film, except now Jason gets a hokey new metallic costume and there's a lot of bad CGI and green-screen effects because, you know... the future! And space!To be fair and give credit where it is due, there's a few positive aspects here. Lisa Ryder steals the show as robotic "KM-14" in a delightful little role. There's also some fun to be had with a few high-concept gags like a laugh-out-loud holographic simulation of Crystal Lake in the 80's. And I'd be lying if I said there weren't a few creative kills. (Cryo-freezing someone's face and then smashing it? Yes, please!) There's also a cameo from filmmaking god David Cronenberg, who chews the scenery in a fun-albeit-brief role! (How did they even get him for this movie?! Is he a big Jason fan?)But the film never comes together as I said. I can't help but feel screenwriter Todd Farmer was aiming at something a lot bigger and more bombastic, but kept having to be dialed back by studio-suits and producers over budgetary concerns. A lot of the scenes and plot lines come across as last-minute back-ups that were thrown in in case the studio couldn't afford the intended sequences.The tragedy is that it had a golden opportunity to do so much more. The "Killer in Space" trope is such a widely-known cliché, that putting more effort into subverting and parodying the concept would have given the film a fresher, more unique flavor. It needed to drop its more serious moments and take full advantage of delivering self-aware laughs based around its setting and location. The few times it tries, it works. But it doesn't take enough advantage of this... it's not commenting on the silly "killer in space" trope. It's just another example of it being done poorly, while giving us an occasional fleeting wink and nod.Even beyond the failed potential, there's just a whole lot of nothing going on. The effects budget eats up too much money, so everything else- sets, costume design, etc. look cheap and fake. Director James Isaac seems in over his head, and only delivers a minimum effort in his visuals. Series composer Harry Manfredini- usually a reliable musician in his own right- barely seems to try with a really bad and often artificial-sounding synth soundtrack. And supporting roles are among the series worst, with grating characters being portrayed by dime-a-dozen "pretty face" actors who would be more at home on Hollister billboards than on-screen. (Shelly from Part III and Megan from Part VI still remain the high point of supporting roles even to this day.)So sadly, "Jason X" emerges as one of the weakest films in the series in my opinion. It may think it's something grander than it is, but we as an audience can see that this just isn't the case.It's a 2 out of 10 just for it's few fun moments. But they aren't worth having to slog through 90 minutes to get to.

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