What did we do to deserve this? The worst concept of movie-making in action: The head of a movie franchise says, "Well, we have done everything possible with this killing psycho in the previous nine movies, so it is time to call it quits..." Then, a voice from the back of the room quietly says, "Lets send him to OUTER SPACE!!!"... and presto!! What we have is this sorry catagory of movies that includes "Critters 4" and is culminated in the awfulness that we call "Jason X".
The following sections of writing contains some SPOILERS! Yes, I said SPOILERS! So if you have yet to see this movie, and for some very sick reason you plan on watching the "horror", please stop reading here because there are SPOILERS ahead.
To me, there were only three slightly entertaining parts to the entire movie: 1- the opening violence seen where he brakes loose and goes on the best all-round rampage of the whole move. 2- the part where he kills the doctor that was restoring him. When Jason put her head in the liquid nitrogen type substance and then preceeded to smash her frozen face on the table only to have it completely shatter, I thought that was the best use of gore in the film. 3- the sleeping bag scene. That was absolutely the funnist part of the movie, I fell over laughing. It was great, but it did not happen often enough to make "Jason X" worth seeing again because there were to many logical mistakes to not get upset with.
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First of all, the whole "field trip to Earth 1" is as dumb an idea as anybody with 14 braincells could come up with. Then, what do you think the odds are that the "field trip" happened to discover, of all things possible, the cryogenically frozen remains of Jason. So what do you think they do? A - leave the frozen man alone. or B - take him aboard their spaceship. Guess what? They thought no harm in choice B. Once on the ship, they actually run a DNA test and discover they identity of the ice man as Jason... and they defrost and reanimate him ANYWAY!! How stupid could they be? What did they expect? It does not matter because those idiots died the aweful deaths they deserved. Then, why not end this terrible movie with such a ridiculous finale that it leaves normal people cursing at the director? Once half of the ship blows up and Jason is floating in space, with NO OXYGEN might I add, he is somehow making his way toward the remaining part of the ship with the survivors, when he is just about to come in contact with the ship, a soldier that Jason maimed comes floating from Jason's side, also WITHOUT OXYGEN, and tackles him into the atmosphere where everything burns up EXCEPT the Mask.
To summerize, the 11 entertaining minutes of the movie are not even close to making up for the rest of this disasterous project. All things said and done, please, I beg of you, DO NOT SEE "JASON X" EVER!!!!!!