Between them, "A Nightmare on Elm Street's" Freddy Krueger and "Friday the 13th's" Jason Voorhees have figured into something like 17 features and a couple of TV series, so you know anything promising a showdown between the two slasher movie icons couldn't stint on the body count. In truth, there's more genuine suspense and seat-shifting uneasiness in the average "WWE SmackDown!" than can be found in this witless, excessive and ultimately boring gore-a-thon. While the producers were on the right track by bringing in talented Hong Kong filmmaker Ronny Yu (whose credits run the gamut from "The Bride With White Hair" to "Bride of Chucky"), even some interesting visuals can't distract from clunky scripting and the bigger problem that these are two rickety vehicles that have long ago run out of any creative steam.

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