![]() ![]() But this sort of theological thinking would put the Paladins out of a job, and since jumper-killing is so lucrative and offers a really nice dental package, they ignore the obvious and go on trying to electrify jumpers so that there’s only a piece of human-shaped charcoal teleporting around the world in misery. Apparently, there are more jumpers than just him, and over the centuries they have been hunted by quasi-religious technowarriors known as “Paladins”, who claim that jumpers must be killed because “being everywhere is only a power that God should have.”Įxcuse me and my first year of seminary experience, but the ability to travel anywhere instantaneously is not the same as God’s omnipresence. Jackson is only going to make people think “Woo! Darth Vader versus Mace Windu!”Īll too quickly, the fun of exploring teleportation’s possibilities is over, leaving David to jitter through the rest of the plot looking unhappy and dragging an even more unhappy-looking girl along with him. Plus, appearing in a movie to battle Samuel L. ![]() I know Christensen is trying hard to distance himself from the Star Wars-only image most folks have for him, but this vapid special effects fest wasn’t the best of moves. Here, the movie veers away from the more introspective plot of the book and towards a landscape littered with gratuitous CGI. There, nearly broke and homeless, he realizes that jumping allows him to break many rules, including the one of “thou shalt not steal from bank vaults.” Over the course of one night, David goes from being penniless to a millionaire, and the world is his slimy oyster. Think about it: if you had the ability to go anywhere, at any time, taking whatever you want with you, what would that mean for your life? Beyond saving a chunk on gas money, it opens up dozens of questions into the ethics and morality of a human with a super-human potential.īoth novel and film begin roughly the same: abuse and panic triggers his latent “jumping” ability, and David goes on the run to NYC. It’s a superpower that’s been given as a consolation prize to some second-tier X-Men and the like, but never looked at as closely as author Stephen Gould did. If he can see it, if he’s been there, or if he looks at a photo of it, he can jump to it instantaneously. Yeah, this isn’t that sort of movie, just in case you were wondering.īased on the cult 1992 novel, Jumper introduces you to David Rice (Max Thieriot and Hayden Christensen), an abused teen who discovers that he has the power of teleportation. Justin’s review: “We got a jumper!” “Don’t come any closer, I’m warning you! I’ll do it!” “Don’t jump, kid, you have so much to live for!” “Oh, okay.” And then the crowd waiting on the street below applauds now that they won’t have a 140-pound young adult falling onto their heads. ![]() Justin’s rating: Does Nightcrawler know you’re stealing his thing? Summary Capsule: Guy discovers superpower, gets chased, girl tags along for the ride. The Scoop: 2008 PG-13, directed by Doug Liman and starring Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell and Rachel Bilson “You think it could go on like this forever? Living like this with no consequences? There are always consequences!“ ![]()
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