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TracyJUMPER - MINI REVIEW
May 28th 2008 20:11
This is a mini review of Jumper, the action/adventure movie a lot of people saw the trailer of and thought "wow, this looks really cool!" Of course I had some female friends just saying "I don't care what it is, Hayden Christensen is really hot!"
It's about David Rice (Hayden) finding out he is a "Jumper", which means he can transport himself to different places just by thinking about them. There are also the "Paladins", who are hunting them down to kill them since they believe only God should have the power to be everywhere.
At first I was excited - in the trailer the story seemed original and the effects did amaze me. And then time went by, the movie was released, and the first reviews came in. What a disappointment to read that so much had gone wrong! But I didn't care, after all I enjoy making up my mind after I've seen myself first as well.
So that's what I did few weeks later. Being warned about it and everything I ignored a lot of annoying scenes, ending up in a braindead state, where I watched just to have something to do while finishing up my popcorns. I don't like being braindead. I get bored.
The effects were great, but after seeing the same ones 500 times over and over again it felt seriously low budget. The actors were good, but having no challenging characters to play, they felt wooden and plain. Samuel L. Jackson, who is a Paladin, has very little dialogue of which saying "Only God should have this power" more than once seems like a serious overkill. And when thinking about it, it's an embarrassingly bad reason to hunt down and kill Jumpers for hundreds of years. This alone removes the reason to the whole movie instantly.
All in all, if you invite people over to a movie night, and you know there will be some talking and not much concentration anyway, Jumper could be a suiting choice. If your purpose is to actually watch a movie, no. DVD is available June 10.
6.5/10
Watch the trailer and poster of Jumper.
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Comment by Tracy
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I don't think I'd see this one, it's good to hear more about it though.
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