A Valentine’s Day Jumper
As The Mrs and I don't 'do' Valentine's, we just went to the cinema last night. Doug Liman's new film Jumper is about an American teen who discovers that he can teleport, the lifestyle he uses the ability to create for himself, and how it all goes wrong when he comes to the attention of a group called the Paladins, whose (holy?) mission is to erradicate all Jumpers. Yes, it turns out there are a lot of these people out there.
This film represents ninety minutes of our lives we're never getting back, and we wuz robbed. It's difficult to know where to start in trashing this film, but let me try:
It's got no plot to speak of.
It's got Hayden Christensen in it, making some of the 'acting' from his Star Wars days look award-worthy.
It's just dull. Not what you want in an action movie.
It hasn't got an ending. Seriously, it's just got a series of scenes that all seem designed to start threads in possible sequels.
As The Mrs said as we left; "You know you're in trouble when all I was thinking during the last scene was "Her hair is the best thing in this film"."
Avoid.
February 19th, 2008 - 01:24
bugger, that’s disappointing – I was really looking forward to seeing this. The whole idea seems like a heap of good fun!!