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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80New Times (L.A.)Gregory WeinkaufNew Times (L.A.)Gregory WeinkaufA happily self-aware body-count flick that's as brutally funny as it is plain-old brutal. A broad slash of scary, sci-fi fun, the project leapfrogs all the Scream and Last Summer junk to carve itself a new, high-tech niche.
- 50L.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonL.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonThe film has spunk. Unfortunately, the gore comes with brutal regularity, so that, despite Farmer and Isaac's attempts to liven things up, the film still just wears you down.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleThe premise of Jason X is silly but strangely believable.
- 40SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirIt gets much more watchable in the last half-hour.
- 38USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigA moviegoer's only defense against Jason is to avoid theaters showing this gruesome and derivative movie.
- 38New York PostMegan LehmannNew York PostMegan LehmannThere's a hint of nostalgia toward the end, with Jason encountering two nubile female campers in a virtual reality Camp Crystal Lake -- but it merely serves as a reminder that the franchise should have quit while it was ahead.
- 25ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliToo much of Jason X plays it straight, and that means boredom. Murder and mayhem of this sort quickly becomes monotonous.
- 20TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghDespite the futuristic setting, which relies so heavily on GGI effects that it looks like a feature-length production concept painting, this film is painfully predictable.
- 20Film ThreatFilm ThreatThe kind of a moron movie, which is built to be watched by people who haven’t even seen the other nine.
- 12Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisThe only chills to be found are courtesy of your theater's central air, and the suspense will come from the wait to see which disappointed kid in a hockey mask will be the first to slash the screen.