Jason X

New Line Cinema | Release Date: April 26, 2002

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25	METASCORE Generally unfavorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews

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New Times (L.A.)Gregory Weinkauf

A happily self-aware body-count flick that's as brutally funny as it is plain-old brutal. A broad slash of scary, sci-fi fun, the project leapfrogs all the Scream and Last Summer junk to carve itself a new, high-tech niche.

Chris Hewitt

Has cheesy effects and a hoary plot, but its macabre, self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot.

Chuck Wilson

The film has spunk. Unfortunately, the gore comes with brutal regularity, so that, despite Farmer and Isaac's attempts to liven things up, the film still just wears you down. Read full review

Jonathan Curiel

The premise of Jason X is silly but strangely believable. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

It gets much more watchable in the last half-hour. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

Feels like it was written as a fairly straight horror/sci-fi movie, then script-doctored by a comedy writer intent on satirizing the original script. As a result, the film's intentional and unintentional laughs mingle so freely that it becomes difficult to differentiate between the two. Read full review

Robert K. Elder

Jason X conjures up more giggles than scares, assuming you make it through the first 15 minutes. Read full review

Claudia Puig

A moviegoer's only defense against Jason is to avoid theaters showing this gruesome and derivative movie. Read full review

Megan Lehmann

There's a hint of nostalgia toward the end, with Jason encountering two nubile female campers in a virtual reality Camp Crystal Lake -- but it merely serves as a reminder that the franchise should have quit while it was ahead. Read full review

Jack Mathews

If the 10th "Friday" sounds like the first "Alien," it's strictly intentional. Todd Farmer's script rips off that classic sci-fi horror film, replaces the acid-based monster with the hockey-masked Jason, adopts the self-mocking attitude of "Scream" and lets the heads, arms, legs and torsos fall where they may.