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Jumper
June 25, 2008"Jumper," released on DVD recently, might have not gotten very good reviews, but I didn't have that many problems and actually like it.
Sure it was a popcorn production and Samuel L. Jackson hasn't broken his Mace Windu character since Star Wars, but "Jumper" wasn't half bad.
Speaking of Star Wars, the new Darth Vader, Hayden Christensen, is the lead of the show. He doesn't do a great job, but he isn't unbearable.The story starts when Hayden was about 13-ish years old. He's got a crush on a girl, who grows up to be the character played by Rachel Bison.
Hayden wants to give the girl a snowglobe, but a bully throws the thing and the globe lands on a thin layer of ice.
Hayden goes to get the globe and falls through the ice into the freezing water. He then transports to the Ann Arbor Public Library (Michigan).
Then the movie starts to take shape. He can go where he wants when he wants. Some of the opening sequences - him on top of the Sphinx eating, transporting around his house - are a comic book enthusiast's dream.
The movie, as I later found out, was adopted from a comic book idea. The producers of the movie took a couple of liberties, but doesn't every one when making a movie.
After 25 odd years of going where he wants Hayden is detected by a separate, religious like, group who don't believe "jumpers" or teleporters should exist.
The sect is lead by Samuel L. And the chase is on.
Like I said - the movie is worth a view or two. I was surprised after I watched it, so I watched it again.
There wasn't much else at the video store so I had to settle, and I'm glad I did.
Posted by Clayton Hein at 12:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
