everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Admirable film.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

In the beginning you already know who's going to live and who will get killed. The stoners and the people who are having sex or are horny are going to die, and the others live. Jason wasn't scary and the ending was so predictable it made my horror-loving heart cry. Why was this tragedy made?

'Friday the 13th' may have been panned by critics when first released but since then it is one of the most famous and influential horror films, the franchise containing one of horror's most iconic villains. The film is popular enough to become a franchise and spawn several sequels of varying quality and generally inferior to the one that started it all off. It is very easy to call the 2009 'Friday the 13th' as a remake, for reasons that are easy to understand. Personally am actually to judge 'Friday the 13th' (2009) as a reboot rather than a remake. While not quite as bad as has been said, it even fails by reboot standards. There was no point to it whatsoever, the series should just have stopped at the last sequel and even then the series was severely fatigued, the fifth or sixth for me was the last watchable 'Friday the 13th' film, and there is very little to recommend it judging it as an overall film. Entries like 'Jason Takes Manhattan' and 'Jason X' may have been heavily problematic and less than mediocre, but credit is due to them for trying to do something different. 'Friday the 13th' (2009) has very few ideas of its own and the very few attempted were either cheaply executed (such as an out of character Jason), felt like they were lifted from another film (too many of the deaths are sadistic enough to be near-'Saw' territory) and more horror genre clichés done to death.The story is suggestive of the series being completely stale and takes forever to get going after the first 20 minutes, with very little happening and with a lot of gratuitous, cheap and pointless elements. Apart from one respectable performance, the acting is horrendous even by 'Friday the 13th' standards, the characters are ones you want dead fast and have nothing interesting about them and the dialogue would likely make even more forgiving people embarrassed. The ending is far too abrupt and anti-climactic, as well as going too far with the ridiculousness.Very few of the deaths are that memorable or disturbing, they're just too sadistic and paced too fast to make much impact. There is a severe shortage of suspense and scares, next to zero in both departments past the opening, replaced instead by childish humour and an overdose of gore, nudity and profanity that adds nothing. Pacing is erratic and the direction is often lifeless, especially in most of the first half. Can remember very little distinguished or memorable about the music, mostly one of the series' best assets now completely forgettable here.Despite these many drawbacks, there are positives. The first 20 minutes were absolutely great, it was tense, scary, clever, suspenseful and compelling. It actually gave the feeling that the series had redeemed itself.Technically, apart from some slapdash MTV-like editing that just didn't belong the production values were stylish and atmospheric.Although no Kane Hodder, Derek Mears is a wholly respectable and imposingly unsettling Jason. Overall, started off so well and then went downhill like water down the plughole. 3/10 Bethany Cox

Typical horror movie with bunch of idiot teenagers, one smart guy, a killer and a lot of sex scenes but well, it wasn't like i was expecting something else. The only reason why i watched it was Jared Padalecki and really, he was the only good thing about this movie. He at least wasn't the one playing one of these morons who get themselves killed because they 're just too stupid to survive.

The original is better though. I got few words for Micheal Bay DON'T MAKE A REBOOT FROM A CLASSIC EVER AGAIN!!! I swear Micheal Bay has to ruined it sometimes. I just like the movie not love. I rather have Rob Zombie direct this film and yes I know he ruined the Halloween franchise with Halloween 2 (2009) but still he would of made it better even though I haven't watch Halloween 2 anyways or his first one. The death scenes are good like it's pretty creative. I know it's not the best but it's a bit enjoyable.