Brennan Camacho
Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
Hayleigh Joseph
This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.
Roxie
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
Verdugo85
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.
ofumalow
This is pretty much what you'd expect from producer Michael Bay and director Marcus Nispel (whose 2003 "Texas Chainsaw" revamp wasn't bad at all, but there's not much to say for his films since, including the "Conan the Barbarian" remake): It's slick, loud, has a lot of action, no interesting ideas or individual style, and is watchable but just not very good-in short, an acceptable time-waster you probably won't even remember whether you saw in a year or two. It feels more generic than some of the original "Friday" films, even though it's better produced than most were. Here we get a brief prologue of the (restaged) first film's ending, then what seems like the very hasty dispatch of a new set of modern-day victims-but it turns out they comprise just ANOTHER prologue, and the "real" story starts twenty-odd minutes in and six weeks later. Now we've got yet more nubile young campers on the chopping block, this group slightly more differentiated by virtue of being including a black guy, an Asian guy, and a gay guy, plus the usual blonde babes and alpha male jerk rich kid who owns the deluxe country "cabin" where they're spending the weekend. Not traveling with them is the brother of a missing girl whom we know didn't make it past the first reel. We also meet a few of the local rubes, who are mean toward outsiders and thus deserve their own grisly fates. In addition, we briefly see Jason after he loses a hood and before he finds a hockey mask. He is not pretty, but it really seems a bigger deal should be made of his unmasking than this movie bothers with. The script doesn't really replicate the first film's narrative, such as it was, but neither does it come up with any notable updates beyond the news that the woods around old Camp Crystal Lake are now full of illegal marijuana-itself a more recent horror cliche. (Like sex, you covet the weed, you're gonna die.) The deaths are violent, natch, but rather perfunctory, as if Nispel weren't all that interested-but come on, what's the point of making a "Friday the 13th" movie if you're not going to make the deaths spectacular? I guess you could say "To expand upon the mythology/backstory," but this movie doesn't make the least effort in that direction. If anything, Nispel's "Friday" de-mythologizes Jason to no obvious benefit, as we eventually see way too much of him, and have to accept the far-fetched notion that he's simply been living in the abandoned camp for nearly four decades undetected while people frequently disappear forever in the area. Yet as before, he's here, he's there, he's everywhere without ever making a noise, like the semi-supernatural Jason of yore. There's a bit of a "Texas Chainsaw" vibe to the fact that we realize Jason sometimes keeps victims alive for a while in the catacombs beneath a cabin, but no explanation whatsoever why. This being a Michael Bay joint, there is some routine loutish humor and Hooters-level ogling. I'm pretty sure if someone actually came up with a script that exploited T&A but was actually kinda clever about it, he'd say "That's too smart for my audience." (No, you're underestimating your audience.)This movie is well-shot and energetic with OK performances, but I'm pretty sure at some point in the near future I won't even be able to remember whether I saw it, or am simply confusing it with some other horror sequel/reboot.
Jeever
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?
Alice
Typical horror movie with bunch of idiot teenagers, one smart guy, a killer and a lot of sex scenes but well, it wasn't like i was expecting something else. The only reason why i watched it was Jared Padalecki and really, he was the only good thing about this movie. He at least wasn't the one playing one of these morons who get themselves killed because they 're just too stupid to survive.
