songbirdmc This was a lazy attempt on a cult classic horror film. The beginning is promising, but as the movie goes on it misses on so many elements that would have made it so much better! The original did such a great job with building the tension, fear, and suspense. We saw Jason stalking his victims and the music was there to intensify the sheer horror of that. It just wasn't there in this remake. Jason was just there. You rarely see him getting there and that's part of the fun! And the scare! I rarely felt scared during the duration of the film. It's sad because it was set up pretty well, with the location and the characters, but it fell short. I'm glad that I gave it a shot, but I'll stick with the originals.

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.

Sam Panico Marcus Nispel directed the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2003, so why shouldn't he get a shot at Jason? This film is more than just a remake of the first film. It's really a bit of the first four all in one.We watch Jason as he watches his mother get killed by a camp counselor. Thirty years later, he kills every single teen who has comes to Crystal Lake looking for marijuana, except for Whitney, who reminds him of his mother.Weeks later, some rich kids come to stay at a fancy cabin. They're all fooder, too. Only Clay, Whitney's brother, can save her. Finally, Whitney acts like Jason's mother and stabs him, but he comes back at the end, rising from the lake.This is a slick, CGI animated take on the Jason mythos. I'm more into the Savini school of gore, so there's a lot of this that didn't work for me. It's not a horrible film by any means. But it's not the best of the series. And while it did well at the box office, it was also the end of the series.

rjones611 This movie was awesome. I loved the fact that Jason Voorhees was a more survivalist type of character. Scaremeter: 7/10Entertaining: 10/10Kills: 8/10