I thought the "Friday the 13th" movies should have stopped after the fourth movie which was subtitled "The Final Chapter". The fifth film, subtitled "A New Beginning", was a disaster. However the sixth film to follow, "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives", was an improvement over part 5. And it's still better than the other films that followed afterward, making it the best "Friday the 13th" movie after "The Final Chapter". This movie is just the same old stuff that we saw in the earlier movies: Jason Voorhees stalks and kills people around Camp Crystal Lake (which has been renamed Forest Green for this film). So, big deal. To Jason it will always be Camp Crystal Lake no matter what. The question is how many people Jason will kill and how he does them in. But this film has one major element that the other movies in the series lacks, and that is humor. The humor is handled very well here, and it helps the film to be much better than it could have been. Plus one thing that I was glad to see once in a "Friday the 13th" movie, none of the characters using drugs for a change. However, those elements can't make "Friday the 13th Part VI" a masterpiece. It doesn't even top the first couple movies in the series. It's all too familiar with all the violence and gore. And therefore, I have to give "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives" thumbs down. But not a big thumbs down like "Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning" or any of the movies that followed this one. It has some good things working for it. As far as the acting goes: Jennifer Cooke is pretty good (and very attractive) as the heroine, but David Kagan comes off very annoying as her father the sheriff.
** (out of four)
** (out of four)