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(1 - 41) of 41 OFCS Rating: 34% Rotten Page   1   2/5 "...longtime fans might feel jarred by the franchise's sudden turn for the serious."   ReviewExpress.com   A. J. Hakari .5/5 "It's a case of 'he's behind you!' repeated ad nauseum, where sudden bursts of sound stand in for real scares."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke "Unfortunately, no matter how clever-clever the all-new screenplay might (occasionally) be at acknowledging the faults of the original, this does not make them magically go away."   Little White Lies   Anton Bitel B "Friday the 13th may be the only film I can think of that could roll the credits after the first twenty minutes and have most people leave happy."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 4/5 "While the original Friday the 13th was goofy fun, it was certainly no classic. This remake is."   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron 4/10 "A boring retread that downgrades one of our great masked men to being a hillbilly with mommy issues and no sense for decorating. And if I wanted that, I'd rent Nell."   CampBlood.org   Brian Juergens B- "Remaking Friday is not exactly dabbing a mustache on the Mona Lisa, and if embraced on a lowered scale of expectation and artistic requirement, this new spin on an iffy "classic" feels pretty nifty in miniature doses."   DVDTalk.com   Brian Orndorf 3.5/5 "Though certainly not Wajda's strongest film, Katyn is perhaps his most affecting since his 1970s to '80s heyday"   Filmcritic.com   Christopher Null B "...incites prickly gasps and roller coaster laughs."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 3/10 "Chewie knows his place in this determinedly un-new Friday the 13th: Asian Nerd About to Die."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2.5/4 "Proudly wears its genre formula on its sleeve, and really, who could ask for anything more? Walking into a Friday the 13th movie, one should know what to expect. On those grounds, the film delivers."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman C "The major selling point is, as ever, the creativity and gruesomeness of the idiot teenagers' deaths."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 0.5/4 "A miserable failure that maintains no attempt to reimagine the villain, the cliches, or the bloody kills and it becomes a depressing experience that offers zero enjoyment and even less fright."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 3/4 "Entertained me by giving me the Jason I know and love..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. "Useless remake"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce F "Bloody awful...isn't really either a remake or a re-imagining; it's just another crappy sequel in a long line of them."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "There isn't really a lot to live up to. The movies were trashy then and they're trashy now."   The L Magazine   Henry Stewart 1.5/4 "Remake, reboot, re-envisioning -- whatever you call it, it amounts to the same thing: a cynical money grab."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1.5/4 "a new version of incredibly stale material, with a modern shine, a little more gore, and pretty much nothing else"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 2/5 "Horror remake isn't for anyone, let alone teens."   Common Sense Media   James Rocchi 54/100 "Though it seems no more or less effective than what's come before when it comes to generating moments that make people jump in their theater seats, [it] becomes harder to take pleasure in due to its callousness."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 4/10 "An old lady's dog produces the biggest scare in the film."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 2.5/5 "me aksiozileyti matia kai tehniki artiotita, mia splateria poy den trabaei tis tromompoynies tis ki ehei ton Jason tis na deihnei ap' to dekalepto kiolas, ti zohada poy eheis na perimeneis"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 1.5/4.0 "Argh! No! After successful remakes with Halloween and even My Bloody Valentine, why would you reboot Friday the 13th with a non Jason-centric story? Fools!"   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 3/5 "it is striking at its slasher roots, delivering exactly what the world has come to expect from a Friday the 13th film"   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr D+ "Surprisingly, the first twenty-five minutes of 2009's "Friday the 13th" features five new interesting campers in a pretty classic predicament given tweaky twists. Then the title credit comes up."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "Call this go-round "Friday the Umpteenth" and be done with it."   Miss FlickChick   Maitland McDonagh D "The first Friday the 13th is not a masterwork by any stretch of the imagination, but it has one crucial thing the 2009 edition lacks completely: the element of surprise."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer 2.5/4 "Not exactly good, as it follows the archetypal, plot- and character-free old school '80s slasher rubric to the letter."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 3/5 "Could it really be worse than Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan?"   Mike Bracken's Horror Films   Mike Bracken 2.5/4 "Slasher movies are not my cup of tea. At the same time, honesty requires me to acknowledge that Friday the 13th is a really well-made and effective example of something that I don't like."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan 2/4 "Friday's jolting scare tactics barely make a dent"   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1/5 "As impossible as such a thing would seem to be, this new version of "Friday the 13th"--whether you call it a remake, a reimagining, a reboot or a continuation is a flat-out atrocity that doesn't even clear the absurdly low bar set by the lesser sequels."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 1/5 "Sometimes you just want a pizza. But what if you're served a pizza with no cheese and half the slices gone? This Friday the 13th fails at being even fun trash."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves "The year is young and we already have a contender for worst film."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick B- "Friday the 13th makes no secret about its purpose, and there's no use pretending it should be anything else."   Mania.com   Rob Vaux 3/5 "The original isn't exactly Hitchcock, but the re-makers sure treat it that way."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg "Less like a remake than just another tired sequel, the new film puts Jason through the same old moves with all the finese of a blind choreographer directing an arthritic dancer."   Cinefantastique   Steve Biodrowski 3/10 "Angry, grisly, gory - and totally predictable in the creepy slaughter genre."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 6/10 "Only just about as good as it absolutely has to be. Which is admittedly better than most of the densest sequels in the original run of films could claim."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 41) of 41 OFCS Rating: 34% Rotten Page   1