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Zack
Posted: June 21st, 2009, 7:16am Report to Moderator
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This entry is famous for it's twist ending, which left a lot of fans sour. The twist didn't bother me one bit. I actually kinda appreciated a new approach to the series.

This one picks up a few years after the events of The Final Chapter. Tommy Jarvis, now a crazed adult, moves to a Halfway House conveniently located on Crystal Lake. Soon the other troubled inhabitants of the Halfway House are stalked and slaughtered by an unseen killer.  It's very similar to the original in the aspect that the killer is off screen until the big reveal. Tommy of course thinks it's Jason, but he's dead. Isn't he?

This sequel's kills, while creative and unique, sadly lack gore due to the MPAA chopping it to bits. Every time something cool is about to happen, there's a cut away. What you do see is cool though. As Balt said, there's a sweet tree binding kill that's brutal and effective. A girl gets some hedge tremors in the eyes. And one poor bastard gets it while taking a dump.

Acting is... not good. However, by now the creators realized that acting didn't seem to matter with this type of film. The guy who plays Tommy in this one does a pretty good job, though he only has like 20 lines. There's also a couple of dirty rednecks that are played brilliantly.

All in all not a bad sequel. At least it tried to be fresh. I'd love to see an uncut version, as I believe it'd be the best of the sequels.

8/10

~Zack~


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And it's my turn again. I would like to remind our viewing audience that the MPAA only assigns a rating to the film. It's the decision of the filmmakers to cut it down or not based on their marketing strategy. Remember that the MPAA keeps the movie industry OUT of the hands of the government.

This movie's time period, though, had a lot of the reduced gore factor. Check out other horror flicks from around this time, and you'll see that the cut aways and reduced blood in this one are apparent in many others.

And now for my progressive review...

One can hardly call this fifth installment a rebirth as it seemed to have been planned at the conclusion of the previous film. This one, however, takes a different direction from the previous films, and it's a refreshing take on the plot, although to achieve this, more elements are introduced that have now become very tired in the genre.

In this one, Tommy (the child from 4) is a haunted young man who is being transferred from the mental institution in which he spent his childhood to a free reign ranch design for the mentally disturbed. Trouble is that this ranch thing has normal looking and normal acting teenagers. It's good that they are all supposed to be there which helps with the natural feel of what happens, but it's weird that they're all "pretty." But like I said, it's a nice change from the "group of teenagers go to the lake and get killed" plot that we've seen four times already.

Things are fine and normal with nary a death in sight for the first act. Well, actually, let's use normal as a loose term here as we get some really bizarre characters, some screwy dialogue, and an "f" word quota for a little while. Acting is right out the window, and it seems as though this almost normal section of the movie is so far out for those in it, that they don't know what to do.

But then we get another unique move. The first real death is done by another character in the story. It isn't committed by our hockey mask wearing villain. But again, we get some weird activity from our actors as one of the ambulance drivers shows so much insenitivity, if it were rated, it would break the scales. He rips back the sheet to reveal the bloody corpse, and then laughs about it to his partner, who just looks horrified. I'd be horrified too.

So begins the bloody slaughter we've come to expect, but we get a new horror cliche that was briefly used in 4. Characters are introduced out of nowhere for the sole purpose of being killed. Yup. No intro. No backstory. Someone shows up and dies right then. It happens quite a few times. We go through several bodies before someone we've met before that scene is killed.

After the weird deaths, all the "pretty" people start dropping like flies, and that's when I started to notice the "kinder, gentler" approach that was so prevalent during this time period. A lot of the deaths aren't shown as graphically as they used to be. I noted this to a lesser extent in 4, but in 5, they love shadowing the deaths, and only showing the aftermath, where before, we'd not only get the hit, but we'd see the blade go in, come out, and spurting all over, but here we hear it, and see what it left...sometimes. I'm ok with it either way, to be honest, but I find it amusing.

Some other weird things that are starting to happen to distraction. Cars don't seem to last very long. We had two of them stall in this film to the detriment of the drivers. People see dead bodies and then walk backwards until they bump into something else. Why walk backwards? Had one walk backwards for a long ways. Sure it built some suspense, but it also made me wonder why she wouldn't walk forward. And the next time I hear, "wait here while I go explore," I think I'll save Jason the trouble of the kill.

So we get down to the girl and the kid after all the token deaths are over, and we get the big twist of the movie. Of course, I won't tell you what that is because it would spoil the big surprise. It made this one quite a bit more interesting in some ways than the other ones, and I just wish the first part of the film had been constructed better. In addition, once the surprise is out and explained, it still left a lot of holes in the plot because the reasoning wasn't all encompassing.

So, this one was a little different and in a good way. We still had a lot of tiredness throughout and razor-thin characters, but it was an improvement over a lot of what came before.


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We still had a lot of tiredness throughout and razor-thin characters, but it was an improvement over a lot of what came before.



Friday the 13th is all about gore, tits, and sex.

There's nothing really special about it, so of course we get the same razor-thin characters. lol

I think ANB is one of the better sequels.



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