by Everett Jensen

Created on: March 13, 2009   Last Updated: March 14, 2009

Jason X directed by James Isaac written by Todd Farmer based on characters created by Victor Miller starring Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, Chuck Campbell, Lisa Ryder, Peter Mensah, Melyssa Ade, Derwin Jordan, Jonathan Potts, Dov Tiefenbach, David Cronenberg

What would a 455 year old crogenically frozen serial killer go for in the mid 25th century? Could he be put on display like an ancient artifact and paraded in front of the slavering masses for fun and profit?

This film opens after the U.S. Government has decided to cryogenically freeze Jason Voorhees (Hodder) because they have determined that he cannot be killed. Science led by Dr. Wimmer (Cronenberg) would rather peform a battery of tests on Jason to learn as much as they can about his ability to regenerate. Naturally chaos ensues when Jason escapes and butchers numerous soldiers. He is finally contained and frozen but not before he stabs a government researcher named Rowan and pierces the chamber causing a leak which freezes her as well. They are discovered in 2455 and Rowan is reanimated. Jason is considered too far gone and left alone. This proves to be a major miscalculation because Jason comes to life and begins the fine processes of thinning out the herd.

The first half of this film is actually entertaining. With Jason roaming about picking off more soldiers one by one, it has a particular rhythm that sustains it for a considerable length of time. But then Jason disappears and it turns into a rather pedestrian story about a scared crew trying to get off of their space ship. Once Jason disappears, the story recedes and there just isn't anything worth getting worked up over.

The film features a whole lot of techno speak, which obviously means something to somebody, but if you don't speak the language you end up nodding your head a lot, wishing Jason would burst through a door and slaughter whatever annoying tit is polluting the screen with his or her inane warblings.

Again, early on it feels that the sci-fi/spree killer matrix is going to work out just fine. It's a fantastic concept: putting Jason on board with a group of faceless, nameless gits who make good fodder for a creature as gifted as our hero. And as long as the killings continue, it appears that the film is successful. Unfortunately, they take the star out of the film and spend the next half whining and puling about how they are going to escape the heavily damaged vessel and make it out alive. It's like "Aliens" without the pulsating glamour of the

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