What I Liked: They used a blend of practical and CG effects and it looks alright. Half the CG isn’t terrible which is a relief but the other half is about as awful as it gets for the early 2000’s.
I’m stretching a bit on this but the most famous kill of
freezing a woman’s face in liquid nitrogen (or whatever super cold liquid it’s
supposed to be) and then smashing it on the counter causing it to shatter into
a billion pieces is genuinely kind of disturbing. Like it made me squirm. There’ something about the harshness of
absolutely obliterating a person’s face like that in an instant and only
leaving behind a portion of the neck and back of the head. Usually I know what types of kills get to me
and this is a new one that I didn’t know I would react so strongly to. So good job on making me feel icky movie?
What I Didn’t Like: All the sci-fi stuff is really
generic. I don’t think there’s anything
original about the spaceships, technology or aesthetics. You can get away with that if the story and
characters are more robust but not in this case.
Wow, I do not dig the Uber Jason design. Does anyone else think the metal chunks just
look like shitty molded plastic? He
looked better as regular Jason which, to the film’s credit, the form he’s in
for most of the running time.
Look, I feel a little bad being so dismissive of this entry
because a lot people worked hard on it and weren’t trying to make a dreadful
picture. But it’s pretty boring and just
feels so cheap. Maybe Jason in space
could legitimately work somehow. I
dunno. I don’t have the patience for
sci-fi schlock though.
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