Friday the 13th (2009) in the franchise is my favorite the best reboot ever. This movie is a true horror movie it is not boring or lame it is a great slasher film. It is my number 6 film in the franchise I love this film to death. I never thought reboot was bad in my opinion it was way better movie then My Bloody Valentine 3D. Jared Padalecki is awesome from Supernatural I will still watch this movie. Marcus Nispel directed well this film, they rebooted the first 4 films but that dosen't make the film bad it makes it good, really scary and creepy film. It is not better than the original film but still a good enjoyable reboot I have fun watching it. The movie has a good score, good setting. Derek Mears is a great Jason. I love the kills because you can see it is a creepy, scary horror movie and like that scary movies suppose to be today. I love in which Jason shots with a bow and arrow Ryan Hansen in to his head. I love the girls in this movie. I love Clay Miller so much, the last fight between Clay Miller and Jason is awesome. I love, love this movie to death.I seriously think this reboot is a great slasher film and miles way better then My Bloody Valentine remake and miles way better than A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) remake. That movie sucked so much, I hated it. Here you have a great girls, good kills I love the death scenes. Jason was smart in which he kidnaps a girl and puts booby traps for campers. Clay MIller is a bad-ass hero on a search for his sister. I love the filming locations and the atmosphere of this movie.Here you have a likable cast beside Jared Padalecki from Supernatural they are Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, Aaron Yoo and they are all good at their roles. 10/10 my all time favorite Friday the 13th film of all time. It is on my sixth spot in the franchise Friday the 13th films and Derek Mears is my fourth favorite Jason.

This is a good reboot. This movie brought back the roots of what made Friday the 13th films bloody entertaining except Jason goes to hell and Jason X, erase that outer space bs narrative off. Jason is in his human form slicing, dicing and running after his victims like the early Friday films from the 80s before he became the zombie version in part 6. Now, what gets under my skin is people bashing this movie, really?..really?...like really?..What did you expect from a slasher film titled "FRIDAY THE 13TH"?? About a hockey masked killer murdering high-rolling, horny naive teenagers (Julianna Guill mmmm) in a summer camp, how simple? Duh!! Jason movies arent academy award winning material. They're entertaining b-movie slasher films. Marcus Nispel directed another reboot i enjoyed, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) with Jessica Biel. When I read he was gonna direct this Friday reboot I counted that he'll do a classic job and he did. I was hoping the sequel get made with Nispel directing again but it didnt happen because they were trying to make Jason a "bankable" character, whatever. The only thing I didnt like about this film is Jason kidnapping one of the victims because she looked like his mother. No Jason, kidnapping is not your thing, your motto is "kill kill kill ma ma ma" but I still like this movie. Derek Mears played a good Jason, way better than that Frankenstein, doofy dude from "Freddy vs Jason". Mears Jason is similar to Ted White's from part 4 "The Final Chapter": agile, flexible, fast.

In the beginning you already know who's going to live and who will get killed. The stoners and the people who are having sex or are horny are going to die, and the others live. Jason wasn't scary and the ending was so predictable it made my horror-loving heart cry. Why was this tragedy made?

'Friday the 13th' may have been panned by critics when first released but since then it is one of the most famous and influential horror films, the franchise containing one of horror's most iconic villains. The film is popular enough to become a franchise and spawn several sequels of varying quality and generally inferior to the one that started it all off. It is very easy to call the 2009 'Friday the 13th' as a remake, for reasons that are easy to understand. Personally am actually to judge 'Friday the 13th' (2009) as a reboot rather than a remake. While not quite as bad as has been said, it even fails by reboot standards. There was no point to it whatsoever, the series should just have stopped at the last sequel and even then the series was severely fatigued, the fifth or sixth for me was the last watchable 'Friday the 13th' film, and there is very little to recommend it judging it as an overall film. Entries like 'Jason Takes Manhattan' and 'Jason X' may have been heavily problematic and less than mediocre, but credit is due to them for trying to do something different. 'Friday the 13th' (2009) has very few ideas of its own and the very few attempted were either cheaply executed (such as an out of character Jason), felt like they were lifted from another film (too many of the deaths are sadistic enough to be near-'Saw' territory) and more horror genre clichés done to death.The story is suggestive of the series being completely stale and takes forever to get going after the first 20 minutes, with very little happening and with a lot of gratuitous, cheap and pointless elements. Apart from one respectable performance, the acting is horrendous even by 'Friday the 13th' standards, the characters are ones you want dead fast and have nothing interesting about them and the dialogue would likely make even more forgiving people embarrassed. The ending is far too abrupt and anti-climactic, as well as going too far with the ridiculousness.Very few of the deaths are that memorable or disturbing, they're just too sadistic and paced too fast to make much impact. There is a severe shortage of suspense and scares, next to zero in both departments past the opening, replaced instead by childish humour and an overdose of gore, nudity and profanity that adds nothing. Pacing is erratic and the direction is often lifeless, especially in most of the first half. Can remember very little distinguished or memorable about the music, mostly one of the series' best assets now completely forgettable here.Despite these many drawbacks, there are positives. The first 20 minutes were absolutely great, it was tense, scary, clever, suspenseful and compelling. It actually gave the feeling that the series had redeemed itself.Technically, apart from some slapdash MTV-like editing that just didn't belong the production values were stylish and atmospheric.Although no Kane Hodder, Derek Mears is a wholly respectable and imposingly unsettling Jason. Overall, started off so well and then went downhill like water down the plughole. 3/10 Bethany Cox