Nonureva Really Surprised!

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Smoreni Zmaj This franchise is becoming more and more meaningless. The fifth part itself may not be so disastrous, but in the context of a franchise it is completely superfluous nonsense. I think this is by far the most unimaginative franchise I've ever seen - if you've seen one you've seen them all. It's not boring, but it's a waste of time in every way.4/10

Eric Stevenson This is one of the worst "Friday The 13th" movies mostly because of how pointless it is. The killer isn't Jason in this movie and yes, I know he wasn't the killer in the first movie either. It doesn't change the fact that this movie has no reason to exist. A cop at one point thinks that it's Jason committing the murders when it's an imposter. What's the point when he comes back to life for real in later movies? The other cop says Jason's body was cremated but it clearly wasn't in later movies! The other cop does ask if he saw him cremated.I guess the people lied and his body wasn't destroyed after all. Anyway, the kills are as gruesome and gory as ever and this actually has one of the highest kill counts in the whole series and it wasn't even done by Jason! This marks the third serial killer that has ravaged Camp Crystal Lake. You'd think by now they'd learn to take more precautions! All these characters have no personality to care about because most are easily killed. At least Tommy's older. This is the worst movie next to the eighth one. Even fans reacted negatively to this movie as it featured a fake Jason. The hockey mask was still there. This never becomes a plot point in later movies which further demonstrates how pointless it is. The actual plot is that uh, more people are being killed but it's actually someone impersonating Jason who died in the last movie. Couldn't you get that idea from the previous paragraphs? It doesn't even work as a slasher film. *

a_chinn A low point for the the overrated horror franchise is minus Jason for most of the film and doesn't even take place at Crystal Lake. The story picks-up from the previous film with Jason coming back to life and then possessing Corey Feldman's character, Tommy Jarvis. The story then time jumps years later with Tommy now much older, seemingly carrying out Jason's murderous impulses in a story that's attempting to be a psychological horror thriller, but fail miserably. Not that the prior films showed restraint when it came to nudity, but this film was pretty gratuitous in it's overuse of sex and nudity for no really purpose. And although this film probably has the highest body count of any of the films thus far, the killings are not particularly interesting or clever. One star for a kind of interesting opening prologue, but this film is clearly the worst of the series.

Michael_Elliott Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)** 1/2 (out of 4) Tommy Jarvis (John Shepherd) is now a teenager and is sent to a home for troubled youths. Once there we learn that he's still suffering major damage from the trauma that he suffered as a child thanks to Jason Voorhees. Before long various people are being killed off and it seems that Tommy's damaged mind might be behind it.Friday THE 13TH: A NEW BEGINNING is probably one of the most hated sequels in the history of cinema but I must say that I think the film is a lot more entertaining than many of the A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET sequels as well as several films from the other major horror series. And yes, this here is a lot better than JASON GOES TO HELL and Friday THE 13TH PART VIII. With that said, on a technical level there's no question that this here is a pretty awful movie. The performances are weak. The death scene are rather lame. The entire mystery is downright stupid. So, why do I still like this movie? To me this fifth film in the series is hated because of who the killer isn't. Yes, by now we all know who the killer is but why can we be mad at the film when the title tells us we're starting something new? I really don't mind the film going off course even if it was a failure. The entire mystery aspect really isn't played out all that well because the screenplay and director never tries to really push it. There are a couple red herrings brought up at the start but the screenplay never bothers to try and build the mystery of who is doing the killings.That's because the majority of the running time is devoted to death scenes. There's a large number of people that are killed off here, which is usually a great thing but sadly the death scenes here are pretty forgettable. The biggest problem is that a lot of the violence happens off screen and that's not something fans of the series wanted. I'm not sure if the producers were fearful of the MPAA or if they were just trying to deliver something different. Either way, the lack of any real kills is rather annoying.With that said, the entire film has a very cheap feel like a direct-to-video film that was trying to rip-off the series. It never really feels like a F13 movie and I'd argue that it almost comes across as some cheap softcore film. There's a lot of nudity here and a terrific sex scene. There are some really annoying characters and a lot of questionable material from the screenplay. You could even argue that the film has more laughs than anything else and especially how the Vic and Joey characters play out. I might even go as far to say that the film was meant to be a comedy. Hell, how to you explain the mother-son redneck characters?