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Post by CT on Jun 16, 2006 3:17:23 GMT -5
Rate this movie one a scale of 0 - 5 stars. ( 5 being the 'best'!)
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Post by GL on Jun 16, 2006 13:50:15 GMT -5
“Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday” is one of the best sequels in the franchise.
**SPOILERS**
The FBI decides that Jason has done enough damage and recruits a female agent (Julie Michaels) to lure him into a trap and kill him. The operation succeeds and Jason dies at the hands of the Task Force back up. Taking his body to a local coroner, (Richard Gant) he becomes entranced by Jason's still beating heart. Biting into it, he allows Jason's soul to enter him. Reporter Robert Campbell, (Steven Culp) catches wind that bounty hunter Crieghton Duke (Steven Williams) believes Jason is still alive, but nobody around town believes it. Robert happens to be friends with Diana Kimble, (Erin Gray) and her daughter Jessica, (Kari Keegan) both of whom are incidentally related to Jason. The coroner, who is possessed by Jason, slaughters a group of teens at Crystal Lake, which draws the attention of local Steven Freeman. (John D. LeMay) Steven catches up with Duke once he hears about the Jason legend, while Jason keeps changing forms and killing off Jessica's friends and family members in an attempt to be reborn in his original form. Learning the secret to defeating him, Steven hooks up with Jessica to defeat the monster and send him back to hell.
The Good News: People can complain about the unoriginal-ness all they want, I still think that this is one of the best entries to date. This film did something new by giving the characters a bit of characterization, something not even remotely attempting in the series. I found this a very nice welcome for once, as it gave me some characters to root for to survive instead of automatically knowing who the survivors were. As many times as I have seen that, it does grow a bit tiresome to see it in every film. I was also very pleased with the high quality gore in the film. This is easily one of the goriest of the sequels, and may even rival the original in the amount of on-screen blood. In terms of killing, we have so many different types that it brings back shades of "Part 3" in the amount of types of weapons used. We have a slashing with a razor, a jaw shoved into a person's face, another one was shoved into a deep fryer and thrown onto a wall of plates, two more are violently head-slammed into each other, a fire stoker is inserted into another's stomach, and the classic throat-slash makes a famed appearance here, with a very famous actor getting the death. It does come pretty fast, so watch out for who gets the throat-slash. The best one here, and is my second all-time favorite kill out of all of the films, is the tent-pole rammed into a person's chest from behind, and then pulled up, splitting the shoulder-up into two pieces. I love this death for the simple fact that it provides the requisite blood and gore for a single film, but that it does come as a total shock. Just the single stab was enough, but then Jason has to joyfully overkill it, literally, by then forcing the pole upwards, splitting the victim into two. The Un-rated version of the film shows it in its entirety and is cut in R-rated form, but this is still a very violent kill. It is something that we have come to expect from a "Friday" film and it thoroughly delivers with that single great kill. The frozen face shatter from "Jason X" is still my all time favorite kill, but this one is next up, followed by the hand-stand stab from "Part 3" and the ax in the face from "Part 1."I also enjoyed the comedy in the film. There were enough great jokes that I did laugh heartily at a few. The coroner scene is pretty funny, and there are a few more good laughs spread throughout, but it wisely drops the jokes once Jason is around. That was a wise choice. Even though the film provides little to no jumps, I'm still not hurt by that, as it never seemed to bother the other films in the series. The one classic jump is where the guy possessed by Jason, and doesn't know it, looks into a mirror and sees his reflection, then turns around for a second, then turns back and is face-to-face with Jason's visage in the mirror. That was a creepy scene when I first saw it.
The Bad News: There were a lot more "opportunities" for jumps, but they were the traditional jumps all the old timers know by heart. A novice might jump at them, but old hats will not. Complain what you want about the plot line, moral, logic, or anything else that a "classic" film has to pick apart, and that is what is present in the film. What really kills the movie is that Jason has really no screen time. There is only two brief scenes with him in it, the rest id all people who have been possessed by Jason. He needed to be in the film more.
The Final Verdict: "Jason Goes to Hell" to be pretty much the guilty pleasure of the series. It may not be liked by all, but I really enjoyed it. It kept my attention for all 90 minutes, which is what a film needs to do to earn my respect. Fans of the series who aren't too picky about the content in the film, go ahead. All others, seek caution.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, several Sex Scenes, Graphic Language, and drug use
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Post by Conan on Jun 18, 2006 21:45:02 GMT -5
I know alot of hardcore Jason fans don't like this movie, but I think its one of the best ones. 5 from me.
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Post by GL on Jun 19, 2006 11:45:25 GMT -5
The unrated version of this movie is so much better than the R-rated version of this movie, so campy and over-the-top that it's hard to not like it, if not love it. I fall into the latter camp, but this is certainly a great first start for the series at NL.
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Post by CK on Jun 21, 2006 5:20:58 GMT -5
I watched this movie when it came out in the theaters, and I still want my money back, funny thing is I think they took it out of theaters by the time I saw the credits LOL.
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Post by GL on Jun 21, 2006 11:33:53 GMT -5
I don't remember hearing about a short theatrical run for this one in all the stuff I've read, but I can imagine being really 50-50 for this one.
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Post by CK on Jun 21, 2006 14:12:40 GMT -5
I didnt mean it literelly GL, I guess that joke sounded funnier in my head.
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Post by Punk18 on Jun 21, 2006 19:24:54 GMT -5
This was the first Jason movie that I watched, still is since I cannot find the others. I had to give this a 5 out of 5 because it was so good. I loved it, so did my father. My sister hated it, she says she's gonna burn it, so I locked it up. For safe keeping
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Post by HNT on Jun 21, 2006 22:14:53 GMT -5
1 out of 5. Really, really, really bad. The whole posession angle was completely out of character for JAson and unappealing to me
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Post by GL on Jun 22, 2006 11:42:56 GMT -5
I didnt mean it literelly GL, I guess that joke sounded funnier in my head. Oh, whoops. I guess it did, I never got it.
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Post by Bloodycamper on Jun 25, 2006 5:01:39 GMT -5
1 from me aswell, poor film very poor!
It only got a 1 from me because i enjoyed checking out ole Jasons Family Home.
Worm possesion and bulbous headed jason just didnt cut it for me.
I expected more from Crieghton Duke as well, For a hardened bounty hunter i expected him to open a can of whoop on Jason and not to die so lamely and so fast..
Like i said Very Poor in my opinion.
May the dust gather on this dvd in my collection forever!
lol
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Post by GL on Jun 25, 2006 13:21:29 GMT -5
As long as there's violent deaths, I don't really care about characters. Everything about them screams dead meat, and that's the way they should die, nice and violently.
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Post by Canetoad on Jun 3, 2007 3:22:33 GMT -5
3 from me... couldn't make my mind up as to whether it gave me the shits or I liked it... oneminute I'd be thinking this is so stupid, and then it would swing back to clever. Just watched a cheapie R4 (theatrical release) version though not the unrated one. Is that worth investing in?
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Post by The Walking Dude on Jun 3, 2007 6:15:33 GMT -5
A new beginning was more of a Friday film for me at least we had a physical "jason' figure -this films biggest problem was in trying to come up with a new angle it forgot the important parts - just another example of the early nineties missed opportunities
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Post by GL on Jun 3, 2007 10:22:45 GMT -5
3 from me... couldn't make my mind up as to whether it gave me the shits or I liked it... oneminute I'd be thinking this is so stupid, and then it would swing back to clever. Just watched a cheapie R4 (theatrical release) version though not the unrated one. Is that worth investing in? Oh, uncut is the definite way to go. The tent-kill is outrageous, the nudity lasts forever, and there's just a huge amount of extra blood in it. Come to think of it, I haven't even seen the regular version, eveytime I put the DVD on, it's the uncut version, usually with the commentary track. I can't remember a time when I haven't done it that way.
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