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Fri, 20 Jun 2008
The movie Jumper starts with a scene of an unsure adolescent boy (read "geek") on a snow-covered school ground (at a school bus stop presumably) awkwardly giving a token of his affection to a girl (a snow globe). An antagonistic male classmate intervenes, steals the snow globe, mocks the gift, and then throws it onto the thin ice of a nearby river. While attempting to retrieve the gift, the young boy falls through the ice and the river current sweeps him downstream away from the opening. He seems doomed to drown, but suddenly teleports himself to the town library. Thus begins the mythology of the "jumper". With his new-found power, the young "jumper" decides to leave his abusive (motherless) home and set out to make a life of his own. To make ends meet, he discovers a new found talent for robbing banks by teleporting inside the safe (he must first see the inside of the safe before he can teleport there). After a few years, the young boy grows up into Hayden Christensen (aka Anakin Skywalker). He soon discovers that his way of life is not welcomed by a group of "paladins" (led by Samuel L. Jackson) that hunt down jumpers and kill them. The paladins have found out his hideout and a world-wide chase ensues. He is captured and then freed by his long-lost mother, a paladin herself. After regaining his freedom, he teams up with another jumper and fights a handful of paladins (including Jackson). After he defeats them, he find his long-lost mother and has a little visit with her. And then the movie pretty much ends without resolving anything. Very lame. Summary: A movie much like Highlander but without the rich exploration of the historical mythology and a very lame ending. There was a lot of potential here for a much better movie.
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