Reviews

Pros:

• amazing first act, great camera work, production value and acting. As good as any big budget film.
• beautiful outdoor shots.
• low budget 'quatch mercifully kept off the camera most of the time.

Cons:

• the guy turns out not to be a great actor. He did well expressing love for his fiancé, but when he is supposed to look terrified, or angry, or exhausted... he is pretty well expressionless. Nothing a few acting lessons couldn't clear up.
• This is the worst part - I have to believe a 12 year army Ranger trips on his face numerous times just when it matters to NOT do that. I understand we need plot devices for him not just shooting the 'quatch in the face and ending them movie, but then WHY MAKE HIM AN ARMY RANGER?
• this is a guy tough enough to stitch up his own wounds with a pin, but runs like a little girl when he is 15 feet from the 'quatch and armed with a fully loaded .45 magnum. This was too much for me.

I would have given this a 7 if not for the unbelievability of the main guy's actions.

Writer, you should have made him just a big, strong ex football player that owns a gun but never really used it. And then you could have him holding his own against the 'quatch briefly because he is so physically strong.

I love the Jeepers Creepers franchise. But Victor Salva made too many mistakes in this one that you don't do in horror movies. Victor are you reading this?

1) Brilliant to show the Creeper in broad daylight, but you show not more than 5 seconds at a shot. Otherwise it just looks like a fat guy in a mask. If you are going to have longer shots, you need to make the Creeper itself move in a non-human way.

2) You make the Creeper WAY too powerful. Based on the earlier movies, the Creeper's success is based on how smart it is (been around a thousand years), that it can hide in plain sight (like a scarecrow on a pole), super strong, able to regenerate. and people don't believe the stories. This would be enough for any monster, BUT NO, you need to put it in front of some kind of hundred caliber truck mounted machine gun and... not a scratch. Now that is just fucking silly. We had to have SOME hope the Creeper could be stopped, like they almost got him in Jeepers Creepers 2. You could have had him ripped in half by the machine gun, then the upper half crawls over to a dead body and swallows it whole - too much for the effects budget? You can't make the monster unbeatable, because then it DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER what the protagonists do, its not going to work, it had no chance of working. You just get to see them die like it was on a conveyor belt. You killed the suspense.

Finally the guy that plays the Creeper is a great actor, but he needs to lose some weight for the next outing. The Creeper should resemble a scarecrow - lean, desiccated flesh, fast, lithe - something that looks like it could fly. Not a fat guy in a shapeless red shirt with his belly sticking out.

Also, one of the things that is great about the previous movies is the FRUSTRATION we sometimes see in the Creeper. Probably in the past, the Creeper went unchallenged in its feeding spree, it is arrogant. But times are changing. There is technology the Creeper is not familiar with. This could provide some awesome frustrations and hurdles for the Creeper. Its harder for him to hide in the shadows now.

But overall the worst for me was putting him in front of the machine gun with no effect, and the mask for the creeper looks like it cost about $20. You need to pay for some special effects for the face and the movement of the creeper, not just the wings.

Oh, one more - the truck shoots out that spear, we see the spear travel something like the length of a football field to get to the guy on the motorcycle. Then when it starts dragging the guy back, we see he is not more than 50 feet away from the truck - silliness.

Victor Salva, do better, I am counting on you!!! I will pay to watch the next one, please don't disappoint me! Or send me the screenplay, I will give you feedback for free!

Its been about 3 weeks since I saw this movie but I am compelled to write.

I would put PA1 as the best, PA2 as slightly less, and PA3 as slightly less than that in terms of quality. However, I think all 3 movies are far superior to other horror crap out there.

So even thought I loved the movies, I have to rant about PA3, but don't think I did not like it. I did.

In PA1 we had an evil entity that was completely unfathomable as to how it thought. It was a GREAT alien, evil character, living on a plane of reality we could not imagine.

By PA3 we learn that "Toby" is just a lackey for a witch coven. He is merely a step and fetch it demon for the grandmother. This takes away any kind of evil intelligence "Toby" might have had, and makes the entity a less impressive character. I am not as frightened of Toby, because now I know he is just "doing as he is told". What a horrible story idea. Also, now we have to ask - why summon the demon at all? Why have it torture your daughter or granddaughter if the idea is just to produce a male child? It makes no sense at all. At least with a smart and powerful demon, it becomes more chilling if it does things that seem irrational TO US, but not to it. Anyone agree with me?

Never been a first commenter before.

You will have to wait for another commenter to describe all the nuance of this ep, I will just point out some few things from memory.

Similarly to Lord of the Rings, we are SO invested in these characters that we get a long goodbye, and we NEED it.

It struck me that they were never going to be able to explain "imaginary" 6, and Starbuck surviving the crash, but I think they do a good job.

My interpretation is that the imaginary Starbuck, 6, and Baltar, are servants of an incredible alien intelligence, one that kick starts the cycle of life again every million years or so. You will recall that Baltar, at the end of the ep says about God - "it doesn't like to be called that". This implies to me that the alien power knows it is not omnipotent, just powerful enough to create these avatars, and even create a perfect replica of ancient earth a million light years away from the original. I think Ron Moore has read the Hyperion series.

The only part that did not feel quite right, even though I understand it somewhat, is Adama is choosing to leave the group behind and just live or die by himself with Laura Roslyn's corpse, out there in the middle of nowhere. The eps clearly implies to me that Adama is just going to sit on that hill until he dies, unwilling to go on without his lady love. I suppose it would have been anti-climactic to have him just be the leader of the new ragtag group of humans, after all he has been through, he is too much of a mythic figure to go out with a whimper.

Good on ya Ron Moore, you are a genius, and nice with the cameo at the end of the ep. This story wrapped up the way he envisioned it. The skill to wrap up all these threads in good if not perfect fashion, would be beyond the scope of 99% of writers.