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Jason X (2002)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:2
Rotten:17
Average Rating:3.1/10
Consensus: Jason goes to the future, but the story is still stuck in the past.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong horror violence, language, and some sexuality
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:Apr 26, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $12,610,731
Synopsis:
The time is the near future. A team of government scientists working at the Crystal Lake Research Facility have finally captured the notorious and seemingly indestructible killer Jason Voorhees...
The time is the near future. A team of government scientists working at the Crystal Lake Research Facility have finally captured the notorious and seemingly indestructible killer Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder). In order to at least contain Jason, the plan is to freeze him in cryogenic suspension; but, as usual, things go horribly wrong and he breaks free to resume his murderous ways. The sole survivor of this latest rampage, Rowan (Lexa Doig), manages to lure Jason into the cryogenic chamber, but before she can complete the process and escape, she is mortally wounded and frozen in time along with Jason.
Flash forward over four hundred years to 2455…
The place is Old Earth, now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries, a world of violent storms, toxic land masses and poisoned seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place they once fled – not to live, but to research the artifacts of the lost civilizations that caused this enormous environmental disaster. Little does the most recent landing party of interplanetary explorers realize the fate that awaits them when they stumble upon an unusual find from a primitive technological age.
The student explorers, led by Archaeology Professor Lowe (Jonathan Potts) and their tech-droid KAY-EM 14 (Lisa Ryder) enter the ancient underground remains of the Crystal Lake Research Facility. There, they make a major archaeological discovery: two frozen ancestors – a beautiful young woman and a large man wearing a strange mask. There’s only one problem: the auto-regeneration procedure has somehow been triggered. The frozen cryo-jell is melting like a block of ice and soon the two bodies will thaw and deteriorate! With time running out, the young explorers return to their starship and blast-off for Earth II, where they are surprisingly able to revive Rowan, the young woman. But very soon, these students will come face-to-face with a shocking, totally new form of evil as Jason comes back to life as well and begins to silently stalk them through the corridors of the spacecraft.
From executive producer Sean S. Cunningham, Jason X is the tenth film in the classic Friday The 13th film series, one of the most prolific, enduring and successful series in the history of motion pictures. An extraordinary motion picture using revolutionary new technologies, Jason X is directed by Jim Isaac, written by Todd Farmer and produced by Noel Cunningham.
The film stars Kane Hodder in the infamous role of Jason Voorhees (marking the 4th consecutive time he has portrayed the character) and co-stars Lexa Doig, Lisa Ryder, Chuck Campbell, Jonathan Potts, Peter Mensah, Melyssa Ade, Melody Johnson, Philip Williams, Derwin Jordan and Dov Tiefenbach.
New Line Cinema releases Jason X (rated “R” by the M.P.A.A. for “strong horror violence, language and some sexuality “) nationwide on April 26th, 2002.
Starring: Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, Lisa Ryder, Chuck Campbell
Starring: Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, Lisa Ryder, Chuck Campbell, Jonathan Potts, Peter Mensah, Melyssa Ade, Melody Johnson, Derwin Jordan, Dov Tiefenbach, Robert A. Silverman, Kristi Angus, David Cronenberg
Director: Jim Isaac
Director: Jim Isaac
Screenwriter: Todd Farmer
Producer: Noel J. Cunningham, James Isaac
Composer: Harry Manfredini
Studio: New Line Cinema
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Reviews for Jason X
Jason X conjures up more giggles than scares, assuming you make it through the first 15 minutes.
Everything else Jason X tries to do has been done too, and generally a lot better.
The supposedly new, improved, futuristic Jason is just the same guy with a hipper hockey mask. Thumbs down.
A protracted and only sporadically imaginative menu of ways to be murdered.
Jason gets a futuristic makeover and annihilates someone using a giant screwing tool. After sitting through Jason's latest exploits, the audience may find itself identifying with that victim in particular.
The movie is concocted and carried out by folks worthy of scorn, and the nicest thing I can say is that I can't remember a single name responsible for it.
As we have come to learn -- as many times as we have fingers to count on -- Jason is a killer who doesn't know the meaning of the word 'quit.' The filmmakers might want to look it up.
Even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scent of Todd Farmer's screenplay, which is a simple retread of the 1979 Alien, with a plucky heroine battling a monster loose in a spaceship.
If you're a fan of the Friday the 13th series, its 10th and latest entry, Jason X, should not disappoint.
Expect the same-old, lame-old slasher nonsense, just with different scenery.
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