Jason X
directed by James Isaac
starring Kane Hodder, Lisa Ryder, Lexa Doig, Jonathan Potts

       For the tenth installment of Friday the 13th, they've deleted the main title and gone solely with Jason X.   It is a fitting change since the new film has retained very little from the 1980 original but also because there is a majority who call the films Jason... anyways and screenwriter Todd Farmer seems to be making a joke of it just as he does with other things we have come to expect.
       After a short prologue taking place a few years into the future in which Jason is cryogenically frozen, Jason X shoots forward to the year 2455 when Earth is uninhabitable and Jason is rescued, along with a woman (Doig), by a med-school field trip run by the sleazy, greedy Professor Lowe (Potts).  The professor could just get rid of Jason, but would rather get sell him for big bucks on the black market.  (After 450 years, people still know who Jason Vorhees is though they have never heard of bikes or "beam me up" jokes).  The students are all as young, attractive and horny as Crystal Lake campers and are joined by a small crew and some military "grunts".  Most of them are killed, of course, before their ship Grendel reaches Earth 2.
       There is much play on the idea of Jason's regenerating capabilities which, at the beginning, seem less astounding in a future with the technology to reattach limbs in moments.  After a number of slashings, though, the plot forgets the technology,  regenerating  no casualties until Jason, his head blown off, is magically repaired beyond imagination or believabilty.  But in a way, its funny nontheless. 
       While evoking and referencing a ton of "spaceship movies" like the Alien series (one character's name is even Dallas), Star Trek and Solyaris, and making fun of the Jason legacy, the film often comes close to satire, climaxing with a great hollographic parody of itself.   Too much winking and not enough laughs or original ideas do make the middle tiring, though.    
       Hopefully this enjoyable joke on itself will be the last of the "Jason" movies save for the anticipated Jason Vs. Freddy that has been tossed around and even alluded to at the end of "Friday...pt. 9".   Maybe this picture is even a hint at a "Jason Vs. Alien" film.

In the future, all hot college girls are intelligent med students.  If only we could all be so lucky as Jason to be cryogenically frozen and brought back then.