What I Liked: Not a whole lot…more EXPLODING credits!
It’s hilarious when Tommy full on body slams one of the
other hospital patients into the breakfast bar out of nowhere WWE style. What an audacious move to pull on
someone! I don’t think it was meant to
be funny though.
What I Didn’t Like: Exploring how little Tommy
Jarvis’ (Corey Feldman (License to Drive)) life has been affected by
Jason’s murder spree as an adult (John Shepard (The Hunt for Red October))
has potential as probably more of a dramatic film. As a part 5 in a slasher series it’s used as
brief setup to connect to the previous installment but ultimately nothing is
done with it.
They cut way back on the gore often only showing the
victim’s brief reaction or cutting away before the weapon makes impact (the
MPAA was notoriously harsh on the Friday sequels). Additionally, four folks get killed off screen
bringing the total body count (including the bullshit dream sequences) to a
staggering twenty one.
An attempt was made to add more humor to this one (example:
a guy almost shits his pants on the way to the john because he ate an enchilada)
but oh my god, the backwoods ma and son characters that are filthy, surly and
all around rotten irritating assholes are possibly the worst two things in any Friday
the 13th movie. My guess
is they’re supposed to be comic relief with a grown man acting like a bratty
toddler and his pissed off mother yelling at him all the time but they
certainly are not.
Overall Impressions: *Spoiler* The bad guy
isn’t Jason which I don’t get. If the
guy was gonna act exactly like Jason the entire time then why the switcheroo?
Usually I appreciate when a sequel goes for something different
even if it fails because at least they attempted to delve into new
territory. But with Part 4 The Final
Chapter, and this one especially, it comes off half-hearted at best.
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