The first thing I want to say is the opening 15 minutes of the movie. At the beginning of the chapter, when the names of the actors behind the scenes appeared, they hurriedly explained JASON's life experience and how he became a murderer, up to 5 minutes before and after. Then a group of young people showed up years later. Because I didn't know any actors in this film before, I hurriedly followed these young people into the plot. Then obviously, the sexual marijuana breast jokes took turns, and then JASON appeared, and the five young men were quickly and neatly solved one by one. No, not quick and neat, but "bad quality". Not to mention the horror effect, it also made the audience laugh. But after about 10 minutes, 5 people were dead. Then the title of Friday the 13th appeared...
I should have never seen such a complete opening. There are ups and downs, and it's already a story at all. There are only two possibilities to do this: let the audience be frightened enough at the beginning and then think that it is over and find out that it is just the beginning, which can cause excitement; another possibility is to say that the opening is rotten. In this way, it shouldn't be much worse later. In this film, it is very likely that the director's original intention was to achieve the first effect, but now the second effect is unexpectedly achieved. This kind of opening is undoubtedly a kind of irony, because such a simple plot can be done in 10 minutes, but the movie is abruptly extended to 90 minutes.
After the title of the film appeared, there were audiences around them who said in pain: Start all over again! ? I didn't have the desire to watch until Jared Padalecki appeared.
Originally, I didn't have high expectations for this movie. I expected it to be a third-rate work that pretended to be terrifying and the result was not scary at all. As a result, after reading it, I found that its problem is not mediocrity, but grabbing everything that can be caught and stuffing it inside, regardless of whether it is reasonable or not, and it turned out to be a pot of hodgepodge, and it just happened to lack the main condiment of terror. .
Comedy elements. Yep, it's comedy. I can't imagine that the jokes in the film are not deliberately made by the director, unless he really has water in his head, so it is only intentional if the director does it. In my impression, the most successful attempt to combine horror and comedy is Zhou Xingxing's "The Night of Returning to the Soul". The previous scene of returning to the soul was really terrifying. Every time I saw this scene on TV when I was a child, I would immediately switch to another channel, and then switch back when it was almost there. Later, the Peng brothers also tried through "Ghost 10", but the result was that there was more than enough comedy and not enough horror. In this "Black Friday", such deliberate or unintentional addition of comedy elements is a terrible failure. For example, the Asian student played by the golden supporting actor Aaron Yoo is alone in the warehouse talking to himself. All the audience knew he was going to be killed and JASON was going to appear, but the director kept him there all the time, making the audience very impatient. And this line is really cool and humorous. For example, when Aaron Yoo finally saw JASON, he handed the hockey stick in his hand to JASON wearing a mask and said, "This seems to suit you...". And then the nasty rich young master, after seeing a corpse fall on the windshield of the car, he screamed like a woman, causing the audience to laugh... So many comedy elements, completely diluted There is little scary atmosphere left...
youth horror elements. Teen thrillers seem to be the genre created by Wes Craven's "Scream," with elusive perverted killers on hormonal party nights...that's what Black Friday took for the most part. Pointless sex scenes, marijuana alcohol, jerk off porn jokes fill the film. JASON is like a ghost floating around, picking someone out when he is alone. But that requires the bad guy to scare the audience every time he shows up. For example, the mask in "Scream" has this effect. But in this film, every time JASON appears behind people, no matter how loud the sound is, I still don't feel it. The second is to be bloody enough.
Bloody elements. Fans who like Western-style horror movies often like the feeling of excitement. Watching the blood in the sky and the intestines flying everywhere, my heart is so refreshing~~ When I watched this movie, from the bloody red opening, I was mentally prepared. But it turned out to be very disappointing. The movie seems to have been restraining this aspect but not controlling it properly. Audiences who don’t like blood may feel too much, and those who like it will feel too little. Every time JASON kills in this movie, the method of killing is different. The best one should be the time when the Asian student played by Aaron Yoo was killed in the warehouse. Seeing the screwdriver slowly inserting into the victim's throat, the masochistic feeling of some audiences can be satisfied to a certain extent. The most uninnovative thing is that the selfie beauty is hung on the door like a dress by JASON, because this has already appeared in the "New Texas Chainsaw Massacre", and in "Chainsaw", it is bloodier and more unbearable.
Innovation. I don't know how the role of the hero's sister was set in the original work. But at least in my opinion, this character is still a bright spot in this movie. In addition, the director seems to want to break out of the usual routines of some horror movies. For example, when Young Master Kuo ran to the road, he found that a car was parked on the side of the road and a person was sitting on it. As usual, he should have yelled for help and ran over to find that the man in the car was JASON. But in this movie, Mr. Kuo hesitated, he didn't know whether to go or not, but at this moment, JASON appeared behind him, it turned out that the car was a strange old man... Actually the idea is good, but The effect is to make people laugh out loud, and at the same time to cause logical irrationality.
In the last part of the movie, it suddenly broke away from the youth thriller and turned into a human-beast war like "Every Mountain Has Eyes". The protagonist and JASON had a chaotic fight, which made people wonder if those who died before had just not eaten. In the end, the heroine also learned from films such as "The Eyes of the Mountain" and "Human Skin Inn", and took JASON to vent, stabbed a knife in his chest and shouted "say goodbye to mother!". It's a pity that because the atmosphere is not enough for the audience, there is no feeling of fun and dripping at all. The ending of the movie is even more outrageous, worse than I imagined.
The mix and match of various elements and some pretentious and innovative scenes have verified the truth that 1+1 may be a negative number. The whole movie feels like a different thing to me. The most important thing is that as a horror movie, it can be said that there is no horror scene at all, and there is almost no horror atmosphere: the creepy background music has just sounded, the actors have just put on a state of horror, and the audience has not yet entered the plot. JASON gave that character a second.
I don't know why I have to write such a long review for a movie that is neither scary nor thriller or bloody enough...Maybe it's because school strikes again today and I'm bored at home...so if You happen to be Jared Padalecki's FANS, of course you can still watch this movie; if you happen to come across this movie on Valentine's Day, of course you can kiss your boyfriend/girlfriend and spend the 90 minutes together . But if you're just bored, I highly recommend not wasting your time on this movie...Even if you're a horror fan, even if you like JASON who never dies, I don't recommend it. Because the trailers and posters of this film are better than the movie.
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