Review of Jason X (2001) by Brady L — 25 Oct 2017

Here is what the screenwriter said in the production meeting. What if Jason was in space, on a spaceship, 450 years in the future? The result, Jason X. This movie has arguably the thinnest p[lot to date for any Jason movie.

In the beginning, he has finally been captured and those who hold him decide he is to be frozen. Then in a moment of utter stupidity, the government decides to keep him warm and study him. Once that predictably backfires immediately, he is consequently frozen in a cryostasis chamber with his latest victim also being frozen just outside his tomb.

Apparently nobody thought to go in to this building for over 450 years. A scavenger team looking for anything salvageable on the old Earth stumble upon these two. Once on their ship, they repair and revive the woman and begin analysis of Jason.

Once again, not thinking about the consequences leads to Jason reeking havoc upon the many people on the ship. The outfits are interesting, though the women wearing extremely revealing clothing throughout the film just seemed like a way for the director to have near nudity since there really was no direct nudity for the crew members.

This movie jumbles around trying to make it cool that Jason is in space but it fails to truly capture the magic that could have been Jason in Space. The new Jason that the ship creates haphazardly looks pretty awesome with the metal mask, metal body and demonic eyes.

The best death is the first one to occur on the spaceship and the death's get continuously less appealing as the film goes on, including the murder of a female soldier that happens completely off screen but we see the aftermath right after.

They even set it up for there to be more Jason movies based on this iteration of the character as he crashes into a lake on Earth-2. This movie could have been amazing if the characters were the kind of people you would actually want to survive or at least not wish death upon.