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XVII: Doug Liman, Jumper (2008)
I went in with no high expectations of this, beyond positive memories of Swingers and Go, and the thought that this was likely O.C.: The Blockbuster. I was pleasantly surprised.
David Rice is ajaunter jumper: he can teleport when under stress, and then as he learns to control it, to places he has seen. Having escaped from an abusive father, he sets up home in New York, funded by bank robberies. He has left a trail though, and a paladin is seeking him out as he visits the girlfriend he never has. Another jumper runs into him, and refuses to help him, although their fates are intermingled.
Hayden Christensen has the requisite niceness about him to be the grown-up hero, and is a whole lot less bloody annoying than he was in Star Wars ("So you want me to betray everything that I've ever stood for, including my firends, my family and my future, not to mention everyone else in the galaxy?" Palpatine: "Yes". Anakin: "Fair enough"), even having a certain degree of kewl. Jamie Bell as the other jumper has a more interesting part, also is kewl and looks more like Oz than the gangling figure in Hallam Foe. This kind of thing will pay the bills, but pray he doesn't make a habit of it. Rachel Bilson looks rather too much like Katie Holmes from the Creek, but that's the O.C influence. Samuel L. Jackson, as the Paladin searching for theJedi Jumpers, is rather too much like Slim Shady if he were actually black.
There's rather too much -s-h-a-k-e-y-c-a-m- and cutting so you can't quite see what they are all up to, but Christensen is used to acting in front of a green screen and I wonder if he ever left Canada to film any of this. But it's good fun, left wide open for sequels, and is tied up in a mercifully brief ninety minutes.
Totals: 17 [Cinema: 5; DVD: 11; TV: 1]
I went in with no high expectations of this, beyond positive memories of Swingers and Go, and the thought that this was likely O.C.: The Blockbuster. I was pleasantly surprised.
David Rice is a
Hayden Christensen has the requisite niceness about him to be the grown-up hero, and is a whole lot less bloody annoying than he was in Star Wars ("So you want me to betray everything that I've ever stood for, including my firends, my family and my future, not to mention everyone else in the galaxy?" Palpatine: "Yes". Anakin: "Fair enough"), even having a certain degree of kewl. Jamie Bell as the other jumper has a more interesting part, also is kewl and looks more like Oz than the gangling figure in Hallam Foe. This kind of thing will pay the bills, but pray he doesn't make a habit of it. Rachel Bilson looks rather too much like Katie Holmes from the Creek, but that's the O.C influence. Samuel L. Jackson, as the Paladin searching for the
There's rather too much -s-h-a-k-e-y-c-a-m- and cutting so you can't quite see what they are all up to, but Christensen is used to acting in front of a green screen and I wonder if he ever left Canada to film any of this. But it's good fun, left wide open for sequels, and is tied up in a mercifully brief ninety minutes.
Totals: 17 [Cinema: 5; DVD: 11; TV: 1]
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