Just what I expected

Excellent but underrated film

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This movie is packed with awful storytelling, overacting, and unbearable, superficial characters. There's plenty of things in this movie that just don't make any sense. However, the part that saves this movie is the 20+ minutes of Freddy and Jason beating the crap out of each other! The movie is horrifically violent and bloody, but it's dragged down by a slow pace. Overall, middle of the road.

Some fun but not a great film in any of the franchises!!! Some cool stuff & lots of gore but also WAY too silly but IT'S OK !!! Could've been alot BETTER!!!The worst of the friday the 13th franchise.

Finally, after years of development stops and starts, arguably the two biggest horror icons of the 1980's would fight. Helmed by The Bride with White Hair director Ronny Yu, this would be the last film in both villain's series before they were rebooted.Freddy is stuck in Hell, powerless because the children of Springwood have forgotten about him. He disguises himself as Pamela Vorhees and sends a message to Jason, begging him to kill the teens he can no longer reach.The adults cover it up, just as they have for years. They don't want Freddy ever coming back, so they even send his victims to a sanitarium and give them Hypnocil to suppress their dreams. Freddy starts coming back with each kill, but then he realizes that Jason cannot be contained and that his mayhem will only cost him victims. Our protagonists try to pull Freddy from the dream world into our world, but Freddy catches Jason in his dream world, using his fear over drowning to defeat him. At the last moment, Jason actually saves everyone by returning to our world.By the end, Freddy is decapitated and Jason is dead. Or is he? Of course, he raises from the lake, holding his machete and Freddy's head as the bastard son of a thousand maniacs winks to the audience.Sadly, Kane Hodder was replaced by the even larger Ken Kirzinger. The director wanted a bigger, bulkier Jason. Oh well. Also, Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child is in this.While sequels were planned (rumored battles were to include Ash from Evil Dead, Pinhead from Hellraiser and Michael Myers from Halloween), nothing ever happened. There was a comic series that did this - more on that later.The movie figures out a nice way to connect the characters, but they went even further in the original script. One idea was that Freddy either raped or had a consensual sexual encounter with Jason's mother, and as a result, was Jason's dad. Or maybe Freddy had worked at Camp Crystal Lake and was the reason behind Jason's death. These ideas felt too contrived and were dropped.

My mom thought it was stupid like I thought Jason X (2001) is stupid because the whole Jason in space idea but this film is fun. Not the best but enjoyable. I know it's better than Alien vs Predator because this one is enjoyable. It's better than Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice (2016) to be honest. Freddy almost win but he's been put out in the dream world and Jason win. Okay now that's out of the way now I want to say the story is spot on, the writting is alright, and the characters are not anoyying which is a good thing. So yeah this is my review of Freddy vs Jason (2003), it's worth a watch