Friday the 13th email to my son ...

My critique of the ending to the movie. The decision to take him to see the new Friday the 13th is a questionable one, but so be it. I am not a horror movie fan and the movie was watchable and he loved it. The ending was set up to be something really cool and after setting so much stuff up they chose to go a different direction that left me puzzled.

"All in all it was not a bad movie; entertaining and startling.

However, they were so very close to being excellent with the ending and instead they went for the homage ending ...

See ...

Clay was about the same age and build as Jason so it would be plausible to people that he was behind the mask.

He spent a lot of time in the area, enough to tick off a cop that knew he was there.

The convenience store clerk, old guy with the tow truck, and grouchy lady all seemed to be safe from Jason and could have been used to protect Jason and blame Clay. The Convenience store guy would not put up signs and could place the kids and Clay together and be a witness to the bad blood between Clay and the blond guy.

The old lady commented to leave him alone, like she knew something.

The old guy was not followed by Jason and the body Jason threw on the truck was gone when Clay and his sister got there near the end.

Clay left his bike, backpack, and fingerprints all over the camp. When the cops would show up later evidence could point at him.

The death of the cop could be placed and set up as a revenge killing for telling him to go away, instead of helping him with the sister.

There was always also the financial motive of the drugs in the woods and Clay wanting to keep people away, after all he was estranged from his sis prior to her disappearance. Could he have hurt her as retribution for finding out that he was up in the woods growing drugs? It would be a perfect cover for the drug operation to use the story of Jason to keep people away.

Not saying it was a bad film, because it was entertaining, but they certainly set up a huge finish that would allow Jason to escape and blame someone else."