When I discuss movies from the, "Friday the 13th," franchise I discuss how the fifth tries to be a slow-burn and creepy, but fizzles out at the end. I always tell folks to watch the fourth and sixth as those are great, but that the fifth sucks. However, on this latest (actual) Friday the 13th, I wonder...could Part V be good without that last-minute twist where it is revealed the killer is not Jason?
That's right, I won't bore you with the exact plot details but in the last 10 minutes of the flick we get the shocking/stupid climax where we find out a random guy named Roy Burns was pretending to be Jason. His idea was to get revenge for a bunch of barely legal teens getting a character named Joey killed. Joey (unbeknownst to everyone) was Roy's son. Without that reveal, if it somehow were Jason, could Part V be better? It is at times eerie, has some wild kills that, "Jason," commits, and so forth. Heck, even without the real Jaosn is it potentially a fun flick?
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Maybe everyone is hard on Part V because we don't get Jason despite the, "Friday the 13th," moniker? I mean, "Halloween 3," got a lot of hate for having nothing to do with Michael Meyers and later on was reevaluated as a classic, does Part V deserve a bit more love? Part of me says, "Maybe." The other part of me says, "There's no Jason, I hate it and the ending retroactively makes the rest of the movie suck." It's a, "Two wolves inside of us," sort of situation. I guess hardcore fans of the franchise should watch Part V and could reevaluate it a little, but those just dipping their toes into the franchise should still avoid this entry.
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