As a fan of this franchise and horror movies in general, I was excited for this one. And sadly, I was disappointed to say the least...
My absolute biggest problem with this movie were the characters. They're so incredibly unlikeable. And the main friend group (which feels more like 3 pairs who just happen to know each other) seem to share that opinion, it feels like no-one in this group likes each other except from their respective "partner" (and even that doesn't seem to be the case with Jenna and Trent). I absolutely hated Trent, Nolan and Chelsea. Lawrence was extremely forgettable. Whitney was forgettable too, which is weird because the plot kinda revolved around her. The only characters I liked were Jenna and Chewie. While Clay was just a weird character in my eyes, I still don't know if I liked him or hated his guts. The characters made dumb, annoying and unrealistic decisions. For example; at the end when Clay and Whitney make it out of that bus, they hide instead of running away while they're perfectly capable to do so. Or when they throw Jason's corpse in the lake where he drowned.
I also hate the fact that the movie basically wastes 20 minutes of your time by introducing 5, and killing 4 (in a pretty boring manner), uninteresting characters.
Another problem I stumbled upon was the cinematography of certain scenes. It was just really hard to make out what was happening at certain points, just because of how it was filmed. For example, when Jason attacks Lawrence it was hard to make out who stabbed who (in the garage).
Other things that annoyed me: bad dialogue in certain scenes, overused movie tropes, the jumpscares were plain bad, most kills were boring as hell and I didn't like this Jason as much as I liked the original one.
This movie had 2 things I actually really liked. The first one was Amanda's death (by being tied up in a sleeping bag over a campfire), it was somewhat original and surprising. And the fact that they killed off Jenna, I really expected that she would survive it because she was the sweet, innocent one.
In short: A bad reboot of a classic franchise, with really unlikeable and annoying characters, that leaves a lot to be desired. Just avoid this one and re-watch the original one.
My absolute biggest problem with this movie were the characters. They're so incredibly unlikeable. And the main friend group (which feels more like 3 pairs who just happen to know each other) seem to share that opinion, it feels like no-one in this group likes each other except from their respective "partner" (and even that doesn't seem to be the case with Jenna and Trent). I absolutely hated Trent, Nolan and Chelsea. Lawrence was extremely forgettable. Whitney was forgettable too, which is weird because the plot kinda revolved around her. The only characters I liked were Jenna and Chewie. While Clay was just a weird character in my eyes, I still don't know if I liked him or hated his guts. The characters made dumb, annoying and unrealistic decisions. For example; at the end when Clay and Whitney make it out of that bus, they hide instead of running away while they're perfectly capable to do so. Or when they throw Jason's corpse in the lake where he drowned.
I also hate the fact that the movie basically wastes 20 minutes of your time by introducing 5, and killing 4 (in a pretty boring manner), uninteresting characters.
Another problem I stumbled upon was the cinematography of certain scenes. It was just really hard to make out what was happening at certain points, just because of how it was filmed. For example, when Jason attacks Lawrence it was hard to make out who stabbed who (in the garage).
Other things that annoyed me: bad dialogue in certain scenes, overused movie tropes, the jumpscares were plain bad, most kills were boring as hell and I didn't like this Jason as much as I liked the original one.
This movie had 2 things I actually really liked. The first one was Amanda's death (by being tied up in a sleeping bag over a campfire), it was somewhat original and surprising. And the fact that they killed off Jenna, I really expected that she would survive it because she was the sweet, innocent one.
In short: A bad reboot of a classic franchise, with really unlikeable and annoying characters, that leaves a lot to be desired. Just avoid this one and re-watch the original one.
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