If you're a fan of Friday the 13th, it's a must to watch! Yeah, the plot is stupid but there's really great special effets for its time and plenty of gruesome murders yet to be seen!! I'm a big fan of the franchise and overall I'm glad I saw it.

Jason X, the 10th installment of the Friday the 13th series, leaves the serene and eerie woodland backdrop behind and seeks out a new frontier... You guessed it: Space! (the final frontier). While at times you might not be able to shake the feeling that you are watching an even worse rip-off of 'Hellraiser: Bloodline", don't let that deter you from watching this little gem of a film. If you love gore and campy humor, Jason X delivers in spades. In fact, and perhaps not surprisingly (if you've seen the cover art and/or read the synopsis), this is quite possibly the silliest, campiest, most ridiculously implausible Friday the 13th in the series--and that's what makes it so great! Think 'Friday the 13th part IV' meets 'Lost in Space' meets the gag reel from 'Alien: Resurrection'--What could possibly go wrong?!Here are some highlights (mild spoiler alert): Jason is captured and brought to a crystal lake research facility where, thwarted in their many attempts to kill him, the scientists resolve to study his regenerative properties for the good of mankind (and some fat $$$, presumably). Following a struggle at the lab leading to a rupture in a cryogenic pod, Jason and a scientist both wind up frozen, and despite his otherwise steel imperviousness, Jason is somehow rendered inert. Fast forward 445 years and (all while the bogey man was sawing logs, mind you) humans have polluted the earth to the point of complete uninhabitability and have moved to a new planet: Earth 2. Ah hahahaha--ahem--excuse me... Some students on a trip to earth (and yes, crystal lake is a hot spot for post apocalypse Earth 1 vacationers) find the frozen bodies and bring them back to their spaceship where calamity (and hilarity) ensues. You might think that by the 10th Friday the 13th film they would be running out of inventive ways to kill people, but in this you would be mistaken (thanks, especially, to the new 'outer space' setting). As expected, Jason comes out of his 445 year nap swinging, slamming VR space campers against a tree while they're zipped up in a sleeping bag, and shattering another young lady's face against a table after shoving it into liquid nitrogen, just to mention a couple. All in all, it's a fast-paced, raucous good time, and the twists and turns are innumerable, as Jason is presumed dead no less than 3 times throughout the film, eventually falling victim to an explosion only to be resurrected as 'UBER-JASON'... Delightfully ridiculous!... Such a 'film' obviously deserves better than a 4.4. I'll give it a solid 5.5

I remember how a sketch from an early episode of "MADtv" featured Jason Voorhees IN SPACE! I wonder how the creators of that sketch felt when this movie was released. Okay, it wasn't exactly the same, as this movie takes place in the future. I remember looking up Leonard Maltin's movie guide and being amazed at the sheer number of slasher films that his book seemed to be cluttered up with! I think "Friday The 13th" has the most numbered sequels of anything in his book. It was weird looking up plots and finding out the villains died in the last movie. Every single one of them is back! It was bad enough that they lied to us with "Friday The 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter". Then they lied AGAIN with "Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday". It looks like this is still the last canonical appearance of Jason in this timeline, although they simply made a remake years later. It's weird how they attempted to make the formula different in the last couple of movies. It's a pity they were just as dumb as the originals, if not worse. Anyway, this film features Jason being frozen for hundreds of years and then terrorizing the people on a spaceship. It's weird to see how these supposedly genius scientists are every bit as stupid as the kids on Crystal Lake.They just get killed off over and over like the dumb teenagers hundreds of years ago. I guess you could argue Jason simply became more powerful, but still they should know better. I was amazed at how awful the CGI was in the training simulation. I guess that might have been intentional, seeing as how it was a simulation, but it still looked hideous. We even got to see these guys die twice. I'm glad I watched this on Friday the 13th even if it wasn't in the title. I saw it on the Syfy Channel and honestly, it fit right there with their cheesy movies. *1/2

Look, I'm gonna be up-front about this....I don't know why "Jason X" gets a free-pass from so many people. And I especially don't understand how so many people actually really enjoy it or find it "entertaining." I really just don't get the appeal of it at all, nor can I really figure out what it hopes to accomplish.It's a film that aspires to be so much more than it is, but it never lives up to even a hint of what it promises. It's a contradictory film from scene to scene. On one hand, it fancies itself a subversive satire along the lines of "Jason Lives", yet it only delivers the occasional jest at its own expense. On the other hand, if often plays the material straight for attempts at honest thrills, yet these are contradictory to its lighter moments. It occasionally gets the idea that it's an effects spectacle on the rare occasion for more complex sequences, but it's hindered by a low budget. Yet it also frequently seems aware of its cheap cost in other scenes.It's like watching someone trying desperately to put together two different jigsaw puzzles after the pieces have become inadvertently mixed together. Nothing fits.We all know the plot... It's "Friday the 13th" in space. Jason gets cryogenically frozen (along with sexy scientist Rowan, portrayed by Lexa Doig) in modern times, only to be awakened on a spaceship 400 years later, so he can hack up stupid, nubile teens... in the future!Blah, blah, blah. He kills a few, gets blown apart by a sexy android chick (Lisa Ryder), gets brought back with magical future medical-technology as a half-robotic "Uber Jason", and chaos ensues. (That was all in the trailer, so there's no spoilers there.) It's a rinse and repeat of almost every previous film, except now Jason gets a hokey new metallic costume and there's a lot of bad CGI and green-screen effects because, you know... the future! And space!To be fair and give credit where it is due, there's a few positive aspects here. Lisa Ryder steals the show as robotic "KM-14" in a delightful little role. There's also some fun to be had with a few high-concept gags like a laugh-out-loud holographic simulation of Crystal Lake in the 80's. And I'd be lying if I said there weren't a few creative kills. (Cryo-freezing someone's face and then smashing it? Yes, please!) There's also a cameo from filmmaking god David Cronenberg, who chews the scenery in a fun-albeit-brief role! (How did they even get him for this movie?! Is he a big Jason fan?)But the film never comes together as I said. I can't help but feel screenwriter Todd Farmer was aiming at something a lot bigger and more bombastic, but kept having to be dialed back by studio-suits and producers over budgetary concerns. A lot of the scenes and plot lines come across as last-minute back-ups that were thrown in in case the studio couldn't afford the intended sequences.The tragedy is that it had a golden opportunity to do so much more. The "Killer in Space" trope is such a widely-known cliché, that putting more effort into subverting and parodying the concept would have given the film a fresher, more unique flavor. It needed to drop its more serious moments and take full advantage of delivering self-aware laughs based around its setting and location. The few times it tries, it works. But it doesn't take enough advantage of this... it's not commenting on the silly "killer in space" trope. It's just another example of it being done poorly, while giving us an occasional fleeting wink and nod.Even beyond the failed potential, there's just a whole lot of nothing going on. The effects budget eats up too much money, so everything else- sets, costume design, etc. look cheap and fake. Director James Isaac seems in over his head, and only delivers a minimum effort in his visuals. Series composer Harry Manfredini- usually a reliable musician in his own right- barely seems to try with a really bad and often artificial-sounding synth soundtrack. And supporting roles are among the series worst, with grating characters being portrayed by dime-a-dozen "pretty face" actors who would be more at home on Hollister billboards than on-screen. (Shelly from Part III and Megan from Part VI still remain the high point of supporting roles even to this day.)So sadly, "Jason X" emerges as one of the weakest films in the series in my opinion. It may think it's something grander than it is, but we as an audience can see that this just isn't the case.It's a 2 out of 10 just for it's few fun moments. But they aren't worth having to slog through 90 minutes to get to.