Review of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) by Movieznp — 16 Mar 2019

The writers of the Friday films - you can create some interesting characters, definitely. So why don't you or didn't you do so quite often? .

Good : After the last two terrible films, this movie felt like a fresh breathe of air. It is perhaps on par with the first one. It certainly is one of the better ones in the series. We get the same clichéd teenagers to get **** up, but surprisingly, we get some good and interesting characters too. The acting is better in this one. The kills are better. The practical effects are appreciable. Even though the teenagers are there to get slashed in the end, some of them were interesting. The kills are good most of the times. The first kill is the one I like the most. And the main thing would be that the characters are more interesting in general. There are characters like Tommy and Rob and Tommy's sister which are very interesting when they come on screen. Whenever they come together, they share some good dynamics. That's the reason I love this movie, to some extent obviously, I don't really love any of the movies in the franchise. Even if there were no Jason and the killings, I would've been fine with those characters interacting with each other. .

Bad : Sadly, the characters I liked have a bit less of screen time than I wanted them to have. As I said, some of the kills are brutal and I love them. But, there's one thing that bugged me - I was not into Jason Voorhees as the main character in this franchise. I was behind Myers and Krueger, right from the beginning. Fourth movie, and still, Jason is just an undead guy with a lesser interesting backstory, who wears hockey mask and kills people. All I can say is that his kills are badass. That doesn't make the character more believable or better. That's the main problem I have with this franchise in whole. I am not behind the main character. And, its contemporary - Nightmare - by the fourth movie they have tried different types of story ideas. And here, it's still the same here's your teenager gang around the camp who are gonna get killed by Voorhees, and there will be a person who stands out. That's all. It gets tiresome and repetitive by this point. And, I was watching these films in a row quite recently. It almost made me quit. There are some things that I liked, for example some of the kills I mentioned and a child character who shines in the end. But, I can see this movie being much, much better. Like in the other films, it doesn't give you any tensed moment. When you are about to get a kill, you get a jumpscare, then while a character is being killed, you are getting some chills, and then .... back to normal again. That's how these films upto this point are. No feel of tension or urgency in the entire runtime. And coming back to the character of Jason .... like I said in my review of first Friday the 13th or may be the first Nightmare film, there's no credibility to the actor playing Jason, in my opinion. I believe it's just director and writer who could make him interesting. Else, they won't hire stuntmen to play the character most of the times. And I should say, the ones I find responsible for making the character good, didn't do a very good job so far. .

Conclusion : This movie was just barely good. It doesn't feel like a typical B grade horror film, like many of those in the franchise. It won't (probably) bore you to death, if you're not watching all of them in a row. .

Rating. .

Score : 5.