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Mini Reviews (April 2015)

Freddy vs. Jason

Freddy vs. Jason (April 30/15)

The coda to both the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises, Freddy vs. Jason fares just about as poorly as one might've surmised based on the quality of its various predecessors - with the movie suffering from a seriously questionable sense of style and a raft of hopelessly bland central characters. The narrative follows several teenagers (including Monica Keena's Lori, Jason Ritter's Will, and Kelly Rowland's Kia) as they run afoul of both Freddy (Robert Englund) and Jason (Ken Kirzinger), with Damian Shannon and Mark Swift's screenplay eventually pitting the two iconic monsters against one another (in a battle that is, to put it mildly, anticlimactic). It's ultimately clear that Freddy vs. Jason's most obvious failing is its head-scratching lack of both Freddy and Jason, as the film's first hour is primarily concerned with the less-than-engrossing antics of the aforementioned teenagers. There's little doubt, too, that Ronny Yu's hopelessly (and shockingly) inept filmmaking choices play a key role in the movie's failure, with the director's reliance on aggressively hackneyed elements of style (eg the dreaded and awful choppy slow motion) exacerbating the atmosphere of progressive pointlessness. Freddy vs. Jason's failure is disappointing, certainly, but hardly surprising, and yet it's difficult not to feel a touch of surprise at just how thoroughly the film falls short on virtually every single level.

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© David Nusair