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Jumper
Reviewed by Mr. Stinkhead

6 out of 10.

We got to watch Jumper the other day, staring Anakin Skywalker Hayden Christensen, Samuel L Jackson, and directed by Bourne Identity's Doug Liman. The story doesn't hold on too well, and the whole thing ends very abruptly, but the special effects are amazing, and the action is tight. So let that help your decision.

The concept and delivery are fresh, David (Christensen) is able to teleport wherever he can visualize on a whim. He uses this ability to steal and provide a hedonistic lifestyle for himself. Soon he gets caught up with another Jumper, and chased by a group of people bent on destroying jumpers, called paladins.

We don't get a lot of background info here. Why can David jump all over the place? How many jumpers are there? How did the paladins form? I understand you can't just have a movie where someone blips all over the place, but it felt like they wanted to make a movie where someone just blips all over the place.

The effects are great, and the action is really well done. Too many action movies are so tightly zoomed in, or poorly mish mashed together, that you can't really tell what anyone is doing. In this movie, even though people are changing locations rapidly, the flow is cohesive.

There are a lot of things that don't make sense about this movie, but there's a lot of stuff about a lot worse movies that doesn't make sense either.

We watched the Bonus Features, I particularly liked the screen tests where they create the physics for making a convincing "jump," and of course all the location shooting. For a movie that uses a lot of green screen, they actually travelled all over the world to film this movie.

Overall, I feel like that the special effects were the first priority, and the story was only fourth or fifth on the list.

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