Review of Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) by Maineutral R — 15 Jan 2014

Jason Takes Manhattan? Jason Takes A Boat is a more proper title. This other installment in the long creatively dead series is, let's say everybody: done this, been there, seen it. It's all the same stuff, only more boring. The budget is also low, so it's bad quality assurance. The franchise is already dead since some sequels ago, so I was not entirely surprised by how bad this resulted.

Just to sum-up this movie in a nutshell, the acting is horrible, the teenagers are even dumber, the characters have no character or development at all, the deaths are bland, there's little to no blood and Manhattan is only there at the last 20 minutes, with 1 minute of it on Time Square and the rest in the most boring parts of the incredible city. It's like being in front of the White House and film the streets instead.

Jason Takes a Boat, huh, I mean, Manhattan is one of the worst entries of the series, only behind Jason X. Avoid this film, there's nothing it can offer. Even accepting that this saga is dead doesn't make the movie easier to watch. It's boring, tiring and pointless.