2001
James Isaac
James Isaac
2008: The military has finally caught Jason Vorhees (after
blowing him in ’93?), and want to study his regenerative abilities. The army is
nearly outsmarted by a walking corpse in a hockey mask and only through dumb
luck do they manage to freeze him. 2455: A expedition of students has come back
to the now abandoned Earth where they find the still frozen Jason and wisely
bring him on board their ship. Jason thaws out and begins wiping out the
students and the crew. Just when they think they have him beat, some wayward nanites
turn him into Cyber-Jason, and then things get really silly.
Jason X is ridiculous. I mean really ridiculous. It works
though, because it plays everything seriously (except for one scene in a
holographic Crystal Lake). There’s a liveliness and inventive spirit that
really hasn’t been present since Part 6, and most importantly it feels like a
Friday the 13th film. All the old tropes and cliché’s are present,
just tarted up with some futuristic trappings. Cyber-Jason doesn’t work quite
as well as he could, he feels threatening but he just isn’t as iconic as his
old self. All the sci-fi elements are about as well-worn as the Friday the 13th
ones, but when put together they make for an interesting juxtaposition. Jason X
takes the franchise just about as far as it can go while still retaining the
essentials, it’s a massive leap away from the gritty shocks of the original but
it’s a fun monster on the loose (in space) film.
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