Jumper

Straight away let me just say I did not hate this movie. In fact I wouldn’t even say this movie sucked, now don’t be confused this movie was not good, not at all, but it was also not all bad there were definitely a couple of things here that made me go, o.k. that didn’t suck. But they were very few and very far in between.

It would not be a difficult task to fill this review with all things wrong with Jumper, because is a sizable list to choose from, instead I will describe the few elements of this movie I did enjoy and try to avoid the temptation of just giving this movie the kick in the pants it deserves.

First you can never go wrong with casting Mr. Sam Jackson. I love Sam because he is never bad even in bad movies and Sam has been in some bad movies. I can’t really tell if I am ok with blonde haired Sam, who am I kidding, I am ok with whatever Sam does. Outside of same none of the other actors do much. I don’t really need to say anything about Christiansen so I won’t. But even Rachel Bilson, as cute as she is, added zero to this movie.

I am also a fan of the action sequences in the film, visually the “jumping” came across very strong I think, particularly in the fight scenes between the jumpers and paladins, group of hunters dedicated to killing all jumpers. The visual effects were very slick and the quick cuts did not annoy has they usually do in movies.

Lastly I have to say I did not hate the story. The script itself fell way short, way short, but the idea of a genetic anomaly or mutation that has been around for centuries and it gives a very small percentage of humans the ability to teleport back to anyplace that have been already is very cool. However as I said the script fell on its face. In the end this movie got kicked out of the summer rotation, but the studio realized they didn’t there was not much of a movie here.

GRADE - D-