The "Friday the 13th" series is no ground-breaker, but this one isn't even as good as one of its innumerable rip-offs.
"A New Beginning" basically tells how the tormented teen Tommy (grown up from "The Final (uh-huh) Chapter") is shipped off to a place where other mentally challenged teens are staying to rest and relax...in a camp in the middle of the woods. This is bad sign #1.
Bad sign #2 is the show of all the weaponry around this place: the knives in the kitchen, the axe out in the back yard, pitchforks, machetes...I know, all these places have them but when you linger on them for so long without any purpose but to show them, you know SOMETHING'S gonna happen.
It's no spoiler to say that a lot of teens are going to die and yes, there is someone who at least LOOKS an awful lot like Jason slashing and slicing. But is it Tommy? Is it Jason reborn? If not, who? The answer, I'm afraid, isn't really all that interesting. Angela Lansbury would have had it all figured out blindfolded in less than an hour.
This is even less worth seeing than the others. In fact, if you're a fan, don't even bother: just skip to "Part VI".
You ever notice that the lousier the sequels are, the more apt they are to use Roman Numerals for the numbers to at least make them LOOK classy?
Boy, I noticed.
No stars.
"A New Beginning" basically tells how the tormented teen Tommy (grown up from "The Final (uh-huh) Chapter") is shipped off to a place where other mentally challenged teens are staying to rest and relax...in a camp in the middle of the woods. This is bad sign #1.
Bad sign #2 is the show of all the weaponry around this place: the knives in the kitchen, the axe out in the back yard, pitchforks, machetes...I know, all these places have them but when you linger on them for so long without any purpose but to show them, you know SOMETHING'S gonna happen.
It's no spoiler to say that a lot of teens are going to die and yes, there is someone who at least LOOKS an awful lot like Jason slashing and slicing. But is it Tommy? Is it Jason reborn? If not, who? The answer, I'm afraid, isn't really all that interesting. Angela Lansbury would have had it all figured out blindfolded in less than an hour.
This is even less worth seeing than the others. In fact, if you're a fan, don't even bother: just skip to "Part VI".
You ever notice that the lousier the sequels are, the more apt they are to use Roman Numerals for the numbers to at least make them LOOK classy?
Boy, I noticed.
No stars.