Friday the 13th: Part 5 ~ Film Review
And with this addition, perhaps the Friday the 13th franchise ship starts to sink a bit. Having enjoyed all four of its predecessors, I came into this film with high hopes. High hopes that were not met. While the previous films continued to develop Jason and attract viewers with new characters, deaths, and storylines, this film brought that to a screeching halt. There wasn’t much hope for this film with its bad cast and disconnected villain; perhaps the studio should have waited more than one year to release it.
Friday the 13th: Part 5: A New Beginning takes the character of Tommy Jarvis (from Part 4), who is now much older (and no longer played by Corey Feldman), to a halfway house for teens in the middle of nowhere. Tommy is scarred by his previous experience with Jason and is haunted by visions of him. I’ve put up with many a stereotype regarding the casts of these films, but this cast was genuinely terrible. Taking the plot to a looney bin for troubled youth somehow sucked the fun out of the film. Call me crazy, but it’s not as entertaining to watch Jason hack a troubled, stuttering teen to death as it is to watch him spear a couple having sex. I felt disconnected from this cast; it simply wasn’t as entertaining as casts in the past.
Disconnection was a theme of this film; I felt disconnected from the cast, the plot, and the villain. I never…
