Jason X would come out almost a decade after the last film, and ignore the mythology of the previous two films, and maybe more. It's pretty undeterminded when this is supposed to pick up, if it's even connected to them at all.
So Jason has been caught, but the government, no matter what they do, just can't kill him. So they decide to Cryogenicly freeze him.
400 years pass and the Earth has pretty much been torched. A scientific expedition from space finds Jason frozen deep in an underground laboratory and unwittingly load him on to their ship. The head scientist knows who Jason is and is excited at the prospect of selling him to a collector.
Unfortunately for the crew, Jason thaws out, and all hell breaks loose in outer space.
Ok, so the premise has some potential as a stand alone movie. And once you get past the premise, let us just judge the movie on it's own.
It has some cool kills, a flash frozen face that gets smashed to pieces is the coup de graux. The chicks are pretty hot and there is some decent nudity, but all in all the film just comes off as a bit too silly and contrived, even given that they're in space.
The movie suffers a bit from Buck Rogers syndrome in that we're supposed to accept the fact that they have all this technology to travel through space, to restore lost limbs and almost instantly heal wounds, but almost all other aspects of their technology seem to be stuck in modern times. This was ok an a show like Buck Rogers that was made in 1980, but here it just creates a bunch of plot holes and questions that become a distraction.
For all the space bells and galactic whistles, it still whittles down to a chase and kill movie, where it would seem a laser beam or two could solve the problem, but alas we're given a lot of machine gun, pistol and hand to hand combat. Even more disappointing is that the hottest chick in the movie gets killed pretty quickly.
There's the usual false finishes that don't add a lot of tension.
The idea of Jason in futuristic space has promise, but for reasons either creative or fiscal, we don't really get a good version of that.
A flawed attempt at a comeback, Jason X is more of a Jason Y?
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