Jumper (2008)

[Majimaune]

I so want to see Jumpers it has two of my favorite acters. Mace Windu, and Anakin Skywalker

Samuels should be good, not sure about Christiansen though.

 

[ap0ckalypse]

I'm very skeptical about this.

I'm reminded of last year's The Covenant. Not in reference to witchcraft, but just the tone of the whole thing. I have a hard time seeing this turn out to be a good movie.

...still, Doug Liman's good.

 

[Dave]

I saw this today. It is very slow to begin with, has a great fast-action chase in the middle, followed by an ending that is rather a let down.

Samuels should be good, not sure about Christiansen though.

Christensen is quite wooden in his acting, Jamie Bell is much better.

If you saw the trailer, then you can almost guess the story. There are no huge revelations, but I'll place a spoiler here anyway.

Spoiler:

Spoiler

Only two Jumpers are seen - Rice and Griffin. Diane Lane is his mother, and she is a Palladin, like Roland, clerics of some kind, who down through the ages, have sought out and killed Jumpers, because only God should be everywhere at once.
Mrs Rice reveals her secret at the end, but in fact, that much was made obvious about half-way through. Rice proves he is no killer by not killing Roland, thus allowing him to continue to hunt him for many sequels to come...

 

[BladeOfFire]

Samuels should be good, not sure about Christiansen though.

Persoanlly I think Samuel will also do well. But I think That Christiansen will do fine he did Anikan very well. But that's just my opinion.

 

[biodroid]

Saw it last night and it was quite good. I expected a kids movie but it wasn't. The story was decent and the actors pull it off well, Hayden even had real tears in one of the scenes. Samuel plays a despicable character and he does a good job of it as we've come to expect. Good SFX too! overall i give it a 7/10

 

[clovis-man]

Haven't gone to see it, but the reviews out there haven't been good. The criticism is mostly that it is just too disjointed and that there is no coherent story. Sort of a fast forward travelogue...from Paris to Egypt in 2 seconds.

Hey, I'm just the messenger.

Jim

 

[williamjm]

I saw it last weekend. Although it wasn't a bad film I was a bit disappointed, I thought the premise had a lot of premise but the movie is never better than average, there's no depth to the plot or characters and apart from a couple of nice action sequences there's not much spectacle either. Christiansen is bland in the main role and Jackson is wasted on an under-written character although Jamie Bell was good as the rival Jumper.

 

[Coops]

I read the book about 15 years ago and re-read it in one day last weekend. The plot is about a teenager who finds out he has the ability to "jump". An ability he needed to escape his abusive alcoholic father. There are no other jumpers.

The story centers on the main character's thoughts and feelings of guilt, loneliness and abandonment and his journey to adulthood. Absolutely nothing like the movie.

 

[Natas]

I too liked the film but was also disappointed with it. I reckon it needs a different ending.

 

[Connavar]

My brother hated it, he thinks i care about the movie for its story,the characters. Telling me not to have hopes for it.

I will watch only for teleportation power which is really cool power.


It that sucks, the best thing is that a book i would never hear of before i know of now. Funny enough the book appeared on my bookshops SF shelf for the first time ever

 

[spaceseed]

This film is the epitome of "wait until it is free"-type movies. I really want to see it, but I know I will hate myself if I pay for a ticket!

 

[GoodyGoody]

There is nothin too special about this movie, It could of been executed a little better. Prefer Sliders the tv series and Highlander the movie instead!

 

[tangaloomababe]

Originally posted by Pyan

Or Sliders. Or Quantum Leap....

Except that both were a than this movie, Dianne Lane (hot though she is, her role is minimal. I didnt like this movie much at all. Samual L Jackson has done a whole lot better.

 

[purple_kathryn]

I don't know why it was a critically acclaimed novel - which aside from the title, name of the main character and his ability to teleport has little in common with the film

 

[Metryq]

I don't know why it was a critically acclaimed novel - which aside from the title, name of the main character and his ability to teleport has little in common with the film

Uh...huh? That's a complete non sequitur.

I'm very hard to please, although I love many less-than-perfect films and books. I think my one weakness with movies is that a good score will make me like the film more than I would otherwise. For example, the movie I, Robot was a screen treatment of Roger MacBride Allen's Caliban, rather than Asimov's anthology. The bit about Sonny having two brains and being able to choose whether or not to follow the Laws was illogical and blew the entire point of the story. But that haunting music got me.

Anyway, back to Jumper. Hated the movie from stem to stern (well, except for Goddess Diane), but loved everything about both books. Why did the producers bother getting the rights? The bit with the Palladins was too much like the Watchers in the Highlander TV series — a pretentiously manufactured conflict. The books had plenty of conflict, and it was primarily internal in the first book. And what was with that 9.9 quake bracketing each jump? No wonder the Palladins found him.

I was one of many fans who helped Steven (with a V, not a PH) Gould error check the ebook versions of his previous works. I told him I was very disappointed with the movie. And although I did not say "the movie ruined the book," other fans have expressed this sentiment. Gould is very relaxed about it, and replied practically, "A bad movie doesn't change my book." (Harlan Ellison could learn a few things from this guy!)