I realize there were dozens of them but he did have a couple of easy targets that he could have taken out, like the one sitting near the back door when he exits and is electrocuted.
I think Jason is more territorial and NYC wasn't his territory. He was only interested in the kids on the ship. Maybe he thought the ship was staying around Crystal Lake.
This movie really does seem to play up the cliche of "It's the big city so no one gives a *beep*". To a hilarious extent. I love the scene in the coffee shop, when Jason basically bulldozes in and the costumers are just chilling in their seats while the owner comes out all like "not this AGAIN..."
I kinda tend to agree with the other poster who was saying maybe he liked the guy and girl he was after to Crystal Lake. In HIS mind he had a reason to need them dead b/c he related them to Crystal Lake. If Jason was dropped into a group of ppl in a strange place I don't really see him as just offing everyone left and right, unless he felt there was reason to.
I know he did that at the rave in Freddy vs Jason, but he thought he was under his mom's instruction to punish those kids.
Create a society in which you would like to live, not knowing what you're going to come into it as.
I think it was a jab at New York by the producers, no one recognises Jason as a threat as all kinds of weirdos and maniacs walk the streets of Manhattan and no one cares that Sean and Renee are being pursued by a psychopath as it's the norm in NYC
it wasn't that he was around a bunch of people, it was how kane hodder portrayed an undead killing machine,
his mannerisms and movements are so wrong,
it's no wonder he's in the worst F13's of the entire franchise