16.2.08
The first effects driven by the release of 2008 does not force you to jump off the nearest of a tall building, or that make you jump to the defence of Hollywood. Jumper focuses on a young adult with teleporting powers that let you zip around the world at will through fissures in the fabric of the universe space. A good launching point, but difficult to achieve can be taken too far and Jumper is so difficult to achieve quickly forget about him. The visuals, including aerial shots of the Coliseum in Rome and the Pyramids of Giza, are impressive. Without a narrative mature however, the experience is shallow travelogue. When this light-weighs the same as one of the 10-year-old children apparently aims of the film rebound in space is easy. Add soda and candy for turbo-charging.
David Rice (Max Thieriot) intimidated Michigan is a son who discovers his special skills after falling into a pond ice while trying to win their school crush,
Millie (AnnaSophia Robb). He spills in the library stacks, waterlogged, but alive and conscious of their power. Who knew that the space-time continuum is so porous? Now you see David, now you do not. There swooshing sound each time it jumps to hear what we do and when you can not use a good jump site (called a wormhole) there is a clash messy because so much is imported displaced. Soon David flees to New York, robs a bank and-now represented by Hayden Christensen-establishes an apartment in a swank building and becomes a hedonist. Debauched this lifestyle can compensate for having been abandoned by mom (Diane Lane) at the age of 5? Did Millie (now played by Jane Fonda), who finally looks and dazzle, it really worth all the fuss and commotion? And thirdly, that means pursuer is David Roland, as well as Samuel L. Jackson with bleached hair and dander his Old Testament completely?
We are not given a lot to follow. Enough energy has been spent on the technology side, very little about the plot and character. We learn nothing about the source of their abilities or cosmic history back. That relief because (a) not really care, and (b) the exposure usually boring filling in films like this. However, it is also problematic because you suspect that there is not much to explain. Based on a novel by Steven Gould, Jumper precariously idea is free. Whether the "bridge of mythology", as the press was being held call is mean-spirited or refracted does not matter. Here, calculated simplicity is indistinguishable from a lack of depth. After Shattered Glass and the Star Wars prequels, Christensen has hurt the culprits and adolescents to be pat down and no way to grow as an actor.
While a rationalization of the blame, at least Jumper is not meant to be cerebral. However, it still could benefit from a different kind of frivolity. David Griffin's bridge between pairs (Jamie Bell) flashes a sense of humor, but the role is a truncated confusion. Judging by how blatant the sequel is telegraphed, Doug Liman and company had in front of their eyes rebound piece. Jumper is glorified as a television pilot from 2005, when they were supernatural dramas fashion. Will be on the calendar, but have their legs cut out from under that before the season is over.
Distributor: Fox
Cast: Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane, Michael Rooker, AnnaSophia Robb and Max Thieriot
Director: Doug Liman
Screenwriters: David S. Goyer, Jim Uhls and Simon Kinberg
Producers: Arnon Milchan, Simon Kinberg, Luke Foster and Jay Sanders
Genre: Science Fiction / Action / Drama
Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of action violence, some language and brief sexuality
Running time: 88 min.
Release date: February 14
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