zerodegreesk

Poor, poor story. Sure it's contrived. It's science-fiction. But, this story doesn't even seem to follow the rules it creates for itself. Tom Cruise's dilemma is fabricated in a way that simply doesn't work. The climactic scene where the real bad-guy is revealed is pulled out of thin air through an opportune method that isn't even mentioned throughout the entire first 95% of the movie. The plot holes are ridiculous and unforgivable, at times. Then, the basic premise of the story, the idea of "How far will society go to protect itself?"... More crap about free-will and the idea of the power of one person over the majority and blah, blah, blah. And, why did they have to date the movie? Why "2054"? What's the point of that? It's going to suffer the same fate as every other science-fiction movie with a definite date attached to it. We should be traveling to Jupiter by now according to Hollywood. We're going to be replacing our eyes for the fun of it in 50 years? Yeah, it shouldn't be taken so seriously, but it's no more than a weak storyline/vehicle for more super-slick special effects. More empty and boring crap for the masses.

I remember watching the Friday the 13th movies from the 80s. I remember the gore. I remember the graphic nature of the violence.

Where did that go? That's what the movies were all about. SEEING a person get his head cut off with a bone saw. SEEING a person's eye pop-out of the screen into your face. Etc.

Half of the gore in this movie wasn't even there. You just saw the other characters' reactions as something bad happened to one of the others. And, Jason hardly uses any unique methods of murder. Just a knife or a machete. One after the other. Blah, blah, blah.

Also, there's no nudity. What's up with that?!? Oh, I guess there's that two second shot towards the end that was probably thrown in as an after thought because they realized there was no nudity in the film up to that point. But, everything's blocked up to that point.

Jason's got no personality or character in this film either. You'd have to have watched the previous nine movies yourself to get anything like that. Jason started-out as a person out for revenge who could not be killed. Now, he's just this killing machine.

Boring. The movie's an insult to "fans" of the series.

This movie had great memories from when I saw it as a kid. Usually, the movie's never as good as it was, you know, when you see it again once you're older. This one is still great, though! The jokes and gags are, for the most part, routine and common, but I think Peter Ustinov made the movie. You just have to let go of everything and have fun with it.