Day 81- Movie 75. Jason X (2002)

So they move the Friday the 13th franchise 455 years into the future, and they still come up with an awful movie. That is pretty disappointing. After the terrible Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, the franchise took a much needed 9 year break. The franchise had grown stale and worse and worse over time. Stopping the constant stream of bad movies was a terrific idea. And then, at some point, someone came up with a "brilliant" idea- let's bring Jason back, but this time, put him in the future!

I suppose in some way, this was a good move. Jason certainly grew tiresome in the present, so perhaps he would be more effective in the future. I kind of see that logic. I'm not sure this has ever been done before- take an established character and set him in a new movie, 455 years in the future. I appreciate this film trying something different and trying to be original. This franchise badly needs originality and creativity.

Unfortunately, it's not enough just to change the setting if you're going to deliver the same stupid movie anyway. I enjoyed next to nothing about this film. The future setting is cool, but it's the same exact storyline- people are killed one by one in various gruesome ways before a final showdown that destroys Jason forever... or does it? It's completely predictable.

I also have the say that the movie dropped the ball on the future tech. The script was very poorly written. So, it's 455 years in the future and we have technology that can immediately reattach a severed limb, but a spaceship doesn't have a central computer that could locate lifeforms on board? Maybe I'm getting a bit too geeky here, but the technology of the future was inconsistent and it made no sense at all. It only contributed to the absolutely moronic plot.

I just think this movie is so stupid. There's almost nothing that happens here that has any basis in reality, no matter what year it is. We have characters who are about to die who are making wisecracks. That's really stupid. We have a character who gets scared because he hears someone behind him, and thinking it is someone playing a trick on him, puts earphones in and turns back to work. What rational human being would do something so stupid? Ugh, it's so frustrating when people make a movie purely to make money and don't take the time to actually consider things like logic or reality.

I actually had hopes that this movie might have been different- that it would have reversed the trend of a franchise that has disappointed for decades. It didn't. To be fair, I definitely appreciate any shot at doing something different or taking a risk. Setting this film in 2455 was cool, even if it ultimately didn't matter. Besides a nice try with that, this film fails on almost every single level. I'll give this bomb a 5/10.

What a stupid movie.