So, I went to see the new movie "Jumper" on Friday. It was about a kid named David Rice who learns he is a 'Jumper', or a person with the ability to teleport. He's also hunted by an organization called Paladins, who want nothing more to kill all jumpers. By the end, he has to team-up (well, kind of) with a Jumper named Griffin to save his girlfriend from the Paladins, who will use his loved ones to get at him.
To summarize: it was good, but shallow. It was a fun movie, but it didn't exactly 'wow' me with greatness. The plot moved uncomfortably fast at times, relationships between characters didn't always make sense, some plot threads were left either unresolved by the end, and sometimes the resolutions to certain plot points left me going 'huh'? Also, the motives behind the Paladin organization's desire to hunt the Jumpers is pretty unclear.
However, on the good end, the fight scenes were very well done, and were pretty awesome to watch. You managed to forget some of the unclear plot points when you saw Griffin shoot a flamethrower into a wormhole, teleport a bus from Tokyo to the middle of the desert in an attempt to kill a Paladin, or the amazing chase scene between David and Griffin, when they chased each other halfway around the world, wrestling for control of a detonator.
So, I recommend seeing this movie, because the action scenes, the concept of the movie, and the special effects were pretty cool. Just don't expect anything outstanding.
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