so, yeah, it sucked. i was really hoping for more from
doug liman (
swingers,
bourne identity) and thought the concept actually looked like it had some potential to be fairly cool. but, i was wrong. as i watched, i realized something about the difference between good movies vs. bad. you're only as good as your talent.
hayden christensen is not someone who will go down in history as one of the better actors, by any means. let's face it,
george lucas discovered him, he's a pretty face, and i haven't liked him in anything outside of his portrayal of the implied
bob dylan in
factory girl. but, in reality, that was only because bob dylan is so fascinating as a character/person/whatever. perhaps why it was possible to use an array of completely different actors to portray him in
i'm not there.
anyway, off subject. i'll say it again, jumper sucks. no substance, no good vs. evil, but more like lesser evil vs. greater evil (which was oddly unsatisfying for me, given some of my perspectives). just a lot of not-so-neat special effects and one dimensional "cool" guy characters. cool being completely subjective, of course, and in fact not really cool at all. more sort of the "i don't express emotion" kind of cool. not human, basically. anyway, i love some big hollywood movies, like
iron man (which
swingers writer/star
john favreau directed) in more recent memory. but, without textured characters and story, any movie will ultimately fail. no matter the style or genre. jumper falls flat on it's face after a very ambitious dive from... well, a hollywood sound stage. because, they sure as hell weren't on location.
