Quick Review: Jumper (B+)

[stinkingbob]

I had the opportunity to see this sci-fi flick on Saturday and I really enjoyed it.  It reunites Anakin with Master Windu but this time they are on opposing sides.
Oops, wrong movie.  Sam Jackson plays the bad guy, with a new look (he sports white hair). He is with an organization called the Paladins whose job it is to track down and kill Jumpers (Anakin). Jumpers have the ability to travel in the blink of an eye to any place that they have visually seen, albeit in real life or photo. Apparently, the paladins think that Jumpers are bad because of the potential harm that their powers could cause. In their arsenal, they use shock sticks and shock nets ala predator style.  The electricity interrupts a Jumpers ability to , well, jump or portal out. Many questions were left unanswered in this movie.  After looking at the movie preview review, I see that this is planed as a trilogy. Great! Maybe they can explain things in the upcoming sequels.
For this reason, I gave it a B+. I just don't understand why the Jumpers are on the run from the paladins. It seems to me that they should get together and jump in the HQ and take them out. But I guess if they did that, then there wouldn't be a movie. Nonetheless, things are set up in this movie that should make the sequels worth seeing. Think how Matrix 1 was and then Matrix 2 came out and blew everyone away. The same could be done to this movie. Lets see what happens next year......  I recommend people see this movie and you could consider it a date movie as well.

[dalmatianjaws]

By "blew everybody away" do you mean the Matrix Reloaded was so aweful that millions of people took their own lives?

[Mahmoud El-Azzeh]

LOL! Yes, Matrix 3 was GODAWFUL! I hated it with a passion. I was expecting some kind of conclusive resolve or at least some kind of amazing twist at the end, the only twist was that I paid £7 to waste 3 hours of my life that I will never get back. Although I don't remember much from Matrix 2, I do vivdly remember being impressed the highway sequence only for it to be tainted by the Architect sequence ergo concordantly turning it a into lame sequel to an instant classic. I still want to see Jumper though despite the shortcomings highlighted by the Movie Preview Review (MPR) Critic (which you can find here if you haven't already seen it: http://www.movie-moron.com/?p=183)

Message to the Wachowski's:

DON'T FUCK UP SPEED RACER!

[stinkingbob]

Oh, no. By blown away, I meant that the movie exceeding well beyond my expectations of what I thought it would be. Matrix 1 set the plot and characters and story. Matrix 2 blew me away with the action sequences. You remember the fight in the highway. What I really enjoyed was the fight with the twins in the house/staircase.
Matrix 2 did things that I never would have expected after seeing Matrix 2. Matrix 3 just plain sucked in my opinion.
If the producer/director did Jumpers 2 well, it could turn out to be an excellent movie.