Jason X

If “Jason X,” released in 2001, was supposed to be completely absurd and silly on purpose as the last 10 minutes, the filmmakers might have really nailed something.

The climactic scene of this science-fiction/horror film is not in any way funny and entertaining, and looks like it says that even the filmmakers had known what a stupid idea this whole film was at the start.

Jeff Vice is right when he said in his review, “Unfortunately, it takes nearly 80 minutes to get to that point — an experiment in tedium that's filled with more of the sickeningly gory nonsense we've come to expect from the "Friday the 13th" series.”

Despite that a good amount of the film takes place so many years into the future, the beginning scene is set in 2008, as project leaders (Jeff Geedis, David Cronenberg, Markus Parilo) at the Crystal Lake Research Facility try to find a way to kill the apparently immortal Jason Voorhees, reprised by Kane Hodder, who’s, as Vice says, “under lock and key.”

As you guessed, he escapes and soon murders everyone in the building, except for Rowan, played by the hot Lexa Doig who starred in the syndicated show “Andromeda,” who traps Jason in a deep-freeze chamber.

Cut to the year 2455, a group of student explorers (Chuck Campbell, Melyssa Ade, Dov Tiefenbach, Jonathan Potts, Lisa Ryder, Melody Johnson, Derwin Jordan, Tani Gellman, Kristi Angus, Robert A. Silverman, Peter Mensah and Boyd Banks) finds Rowan and the frozen Jason and brings the two of them on their spaceship. The students thaw and heel Rowan, but they fail to listen to her terrible warnings about Jason, who soon goes back to murdering on the ship.

Vice said, “What is baffling is that this ludicrous premise is played with more of a straight face than it merits, so by the time the filmmakers decide to camp up the action, it's pretty much too little too late.”

Worse, there’s no suspense in the movie because every character is not likable in any way. That can be thanked to both the atrocious script (by newbie Todd Farmer, who has a small supporting role as one of the space marine victims) as well as the underwhelming performances.

Vice ended his review by saying, “The only performer who seems to realize just how awful all this is, is Doig's "Andromeda" co-star Lisa Ryder, playing an all-too-familiar android character that might as well be called "Data-ette" because of her obvious similarities to the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" character Data.”

As I have stated yesterday, this is the worst in the “Friday the 13^th” franchise. It’s completely ridiculous, and it makes you wonder what the filmmakers were thinking when they made this. Were they thinking that it would be a fun film? I didn’t have any fun or enjoyment with this one. If anyone did, great, but I didn’t. My advice is to never watch this film because it’s that bad. There is nothing likable in this movie. Ok, maybe the look of “Uber”-Jason, but that’s about it. When he shows up, you think it will start to get good, but it doesn’t.

Thank goodness I’m done with that god-awful movie. Stay tuned tomorrow when I finish up “Friday the 13^th-a-thon” with the remake. Let’s just hold on and see how that is, because it’s one of those remakes that I don’t recommend. Want to know why? You have to wait tomorrow to know in continuing with this year’s “Halloween Month.”