July 18, 2008

Jumper

First of all, Hayden Christensen? Not much of an actor. I was willing to believe it was the craptastic direction of Lucas, but...

So anyway, on to the movie. This movie was merely OK. The commercials/previews made it look a lot better than it was. In fact, they made it look like it could/should have been. The dude can teleport. And there are other people who can do it too. Always have been. And there's this religious order hunting them down on the premise that only God should have this power. And that's about all the movie tells you. Is it genetic? Is it only males who exhibit this or was that merely a casting bias for the movie? They can take things w/ them when they jump, but only certain things. Why? Etc, etc.

This movie could have spent the 90 minutes of my life exploring the jumping ability and its origin and the impact it has on the life of the person (while said person happens to be fleeing for their life). Heck, they could have had the religious cult explain the whole situation when the main character confronts them about why they are chasing him. Yet, this movie goes on and on about how the main character's life sucks and all this crap that is orthogonal to the fact that he can jump. I mean, OK, you want to build character depth/history. I get it. But people went to see this movie cause of the jumping. So let's focus there, eh?

Posted in at 16:17:35