For a start, the characters don't even make it to Manhattan until more than an hour into the film and Jason doesn't exactly "take" it when he arrives -- things get pretty tiresome pretty fast in the city that never sleeps.

| Feb 8, 2024

This awful movie barely has anything to do with Manhattan. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 12, 2022

It's pretty boring for a slasher movie. Case in point: You will feel nothing when Jason sinks a scalding sauna stone into someone's solar plexus. But as a movie about terrifying rites of passage about what happens to you after high school, it's good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2021

The worst of the initial eight Paramount films.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 21, 2021

...ultimately stands as a very slight improvement over its various predecessors.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2015

The makers of the Friday films wouldn't even consider stopping the series till they hit that magic number: Part XIII.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 19, 2014

| Original Score: 0/5 | Sep 3, 2011

Overall, as a horror fan, even the weakest of movies can still hold a place in my heart and Jason Takes Manhattan is definitely one of them.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 10, 2011

Taking the serial killer and putting him on a boat isn't the silliest thing you could do -- you could always send him to space.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 7, 2009

It's actually quite amazing that a film titled Jason Takes Manhattan never really takes place in Manhattan. At least the Muppets kept their titular promise to bite the Big Apple.

| Original Score: D- | Aug 26, 2009

This is easily the most disappointing of the original...movies - which is quite an achievement when you consider that the overall quality of the franchise was hardly high enough to raise expectations to a level that would allow for disappointment.

| Feb 15, 2009

Not only are the later Friday the 13th films distasteful, but they've become so repetitive that each sequel is duller than the last.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Mar 12, 2008

An inscrutable narrative that pukes its way across an unforgivably long 100 minutes.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 12, 2007

For what it's worth (very little), probably the best in the series.

| Jan 26, 2006

Not even remotely scary, and on top of that less than 1/3 of the film takes place in New York. False advertising, I say!

Full Review | Original Score: D | Oct 28, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2005

Director Rob Hedden may have been onto something: From Crystal Lake to Manhattan, the series itself was always drowning in ****.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Sep 25, 2004

We're lured in with promises of Manhattan mayhem, and all we get is more of the same stupid stuff.

| Original Score: D- | Nov 29, 2003

Utterly appalling.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 13, 2003