Jason X
New Line Cinema | Release Date: April 26, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
25
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
5
Negative:
17
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Chicago TribuneRobert K. Elder
Jason X conjures up more giggles than scares, assuming you make it through the first 15 minutes. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
A moviegoer's only defense against Jason is to avoid theaters showing this gruesome and derivative movie. Read full review
80
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.
40
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
It gets much more watchable in the last half-hour. Read full review
12
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The only chills to be found are courtesy of your theater's central air, and the suspense will come from the wait to see which disappointed kid in a hockey mask will be the first to slash the screen. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyChuck 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
20
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Despite the futuristic setting, which relies so heavily on GGI effects that it looks like a feature-length production concept painting, this film is painfully predictable. Read full review
38
New York PostMegan 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
50
San Francisco ChronicleJonathan Curiel
The premise of Jason X is silly but strangely believable. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Too much of Jason X plays it straight, and that means boredom. Murder and mayhem of this sort quickly becomes monotonous. Read full review
20
Film ThreatDavid Grove
The kind of a moron movie, which is built to be watched by people who haven’t even seen the other nine. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack 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.
30
VarietyScott Foundas
Further proof that titular antagonist Jason Voorhes is ready for retirement -- to videostore shelves. Read full review
10
Chicago ReaderHank Sartin
Here suspense is abandoned, and Jason is on-screen so long you get sick of seeing him -- and sick of the poorly staged slasher-film tricks. Read full review
30
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
A protracted and only sporadically imaginative menu of ways to be murdered. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesGene Seymour
Like a dinner-theater version of the "Alien" movies without the good grooming. Read full review
16
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
It will come as no surprise that the movie isn't scary. But here's the real damn: It isn't funny, either. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleSteve Davis
It had a little originality, unlike the other sequels, but not much. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubNathan 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
12
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Jason X sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought. Only its title works. Read full review
58
Portland OregonianChris Hewitt
Has cheesy effects and a hoary plot, but its macabre, self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot.
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
This time the action takes us out of the usual campgrounds and girls in underwear into the realm of outer space, where no one can hear you screaming "Enough already." Read full review
30
The New York TimesDave Kehr
Even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scent of Todd Farmer's screenplay. Read full review
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