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29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAbout the best Friday the 13th movie you could hope for. Its technical credits are excellent. It has a lot of scary and gruesome killings. Not a whole lot of acting is required.
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen ColeThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen ColeDespite an evident appetite for mayhem, however, Bay is not the right guy to produce slasher movies. Horror requires intimacy.
- 50VarietyVarietyAs in his "Chainsaw" remake, Nispel's scare tactics amount to little more than carefully timed cattle-prod shocks, aided by high-volume speaker blasts that were beyond the budgetary reach of the early '80s films.
- Nispel is no Rob Zombie - who achieved something akin to brilliance with his 2007 Halloween remake. What's more, as influential as it's been, Friday the 13th was never that great.
- 50Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezA surprisingly straightforward romp in slasher-flick cliches, Friday the 13th is replete with gee-whiz gore, gratuitous sex and nudity and party-loving teens with a penchant for ending up on the wrong end of a pick ax.
- 38ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliIf all you're looking for is breasts, blood, and gore, this film hits pay dirt. None of the killings are terribly inventive, but they are plentiful, and why bother being devious when axes, machetes, knives, and pointed sticks will do the job just as well?
- 38Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneThis new Friday the 13th, unquestionably savvier and snappier than the original "Friday the 13th," though just as useless, is a needed return to simplicity.
- 25Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisThe movie might have worked if it winked more - or if it played things completely straight.
- 25The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonIt's almost charming in its sheer lack of ambition, but the lack of creativity in its by-the-numbers shocks is harder to excuse.
- 0Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovBut bad, this film's so bad! To flub the fans' most beloved butcher boy.