Sector Six

Jason runs now!

Despite his new-found agility, they still don’t quite explain his uncanny ability to travel large distances almost instantly. He still goes from being out by the lake, to on top of the cabin, to inside the cabin, to out in the woods in a very short amount of time. But this has always been a Jason trademark, so it didn’t bother me much.

What DID bother me, though, was that it seemed as though they wanted to give Jason a small ounce of humanity, but didn’t even really try. At the beginning of the movie, they show the original ending with Ms. Voorhees getting beheaded, with Jason (supposedly) witnessing it. That small snippet sets up the killing of a small group of annoying teens (who discuss Camp Crystal Lake’s past), which sets up the killing of another group of annoying.. teens.. i think.

What ensues turns into the typical Friday the 13th movie. To be honest, it really didn’t need to be made. I saw nothing in this movie that hadn’t been done in the 10 previous installments of the series. At least Jason X tried to be different!

I just watched Watchmen, and as much as I wanted to like it, I just couldn’t. I can understand being faithful to the source material (the original graphic novel) but the movie could have easily been 45 minutes shorter. Add to that the fact that there were only two truly likeable characters in the movie (Rorschach and The Comedian), one of which gets very little screen time, and you’re just watching a film about a bunch of people you don’t care for.

Seeing the Silk Spectre II in her skin-tight outfit was nice, for the ten seconds you actually get a good look at her, but why was I treated to Dr. Manhattan’s blue-man penis repeatedly?

Anyways, the scenes that didn’t include Rorschach or The Comedian were just boring. Night Owl II had the personality of a tree stump, and Silk Spectre II really didn’t do anything except kick a little bit of ass, then show some side boob. The villain looked and acted about as stereotypical as a comic book villian possibly could, and the climax was anti-climactic (and a bit too hard to believe). I can suspend disbelief quite a bit, and you have to with comic book movies, but there’s just something about world peace that I just can’t accept.

Overall the movie had some cool fight scenes, but they were too few and far between. It was a well-written movie, adapted from a well-written comic book, but it almost tried to be more than what it was. I’m not saying comic book movie can’t be well-written, but I don’t go into it expecting an Oscar-winning script. I wanna see some ass kicking, and there just wasn’t enough for my tastes.