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The original Friday the 13th
was made to copycat other horror hits such a Halloween, so why would the new revamp on the series be any different?
But other than copying other films; it copies itself and the other hundred Friday the 13th movies out there. I would
have preferred another chapter in the series rather than a so-called 'remake' of the earlier ones.
It was nice and refreshing to see a Friday the 13th movie with pretty good acting; most performances in the previous films
were campy and very far fetched, nearly every performance in the new one was right on and nearly believable.
The main flaw that I just couldn't look past was Jason himself; in the original stories Jason was seen as a childlike
killer with sluggish reflexes and an even more sluggish mind. This newly imagined Jason is shows to be more of a skillful
hunter than being the mindless killer that he should be; setting up traps with bells and lights around the camp, digging underground
tunnels around the cabins in Camp Crystal Lake, and keeping someone hostage just isn't something Jason would do -- even
if he thought it was his mother -- or at least resembled his mother. I just can't see him feeding a hostage in his
homemade tunnels that's filled with bells as alarms.
Let's get one thing straight,
it wasn't a 'bad' movie -- but it just wasn't a Friday the 13th movie. I would have enjoyed it a lot
more if it was just another horror movie without the classic slasher title to back it up.
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