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Just watched this thing a few minutes ago and was not surprised to see it rely wholly on its graphics and only reference the storyline when the visual crutch could only bear so much weight. Bleh, this wasn't a good movie in the end, pretty teleports and all.

The only reason I've actually started a thread on it is because during one of the panoramas in the Rome scenes, you can actually see the film crew and equipment get into the shot, as well as the rails that the Stead-i-Cam was using. I mean... what the hell? Isn't that covered in the camera's operation manual or something?

That, and I don't get how anyone can be casually pinned into place by live electrical wires, and not killed instead. Confusing...

3/10 baybee

Isn't Morgan Freeman or Sammuel L Jackson in this movie?

Samuel L. Jackson is, yes. And he does a pretty bad job of it. His only motivation for wanting to kill Jumpers is, apparently, that only God should be able to be in all places at once. Okay, so he's a religious nut. Way to pin him on a cliche...

Movie's not worth renting. I'll try Bucket List tomorrow.

Ahhh thats it the Bucket List I wanted to rent that one.

Man, I've heard lots of people complaining about the story of Jumper...I actually didn't have any problems with the story. It was easy enough to figure out, when one thinks about it. What was confusing for you, FC? Also, that bit with the Rome panorama...I didn't notice that before. Heck, my family obsesses over this stuff, and they didn't notice. Good eye.

I don't buy the motivations in the film because all I'm going on is what the characters tell me. I don't see the main character growing up and his mom ditching him, or white-haired-paladin-man's childhood and why he was so freaking angry about the existence of Jumpers. That, and the only sense of history we get is from the Irish fellow who tosses in the line, "This has been going on for centuries." What has? The war? I wanted to be shown all of that history rather than having a character simply tell me. I didn't buy it.

That and I still don't get the electrocuting aspect. Normal people would likely die ten times over if they were pinned to walls by 10,000v of juice. There's nothing in the film to say they're any more special in that respect than we are so...

Ah, also, the finale where the main character jumps a chunk of his girlfriend's house into the river. That was supposed to be the super-jump, I'm assuming. The violin buildup said so. But it wasn't! Irish-boy jumped a double-decker bus. This guy ported a living room, which is just a few walls and furniture if you think about it.

Rawr. Bogus!

I can't say I agree with you; I rather liked the movie, and the only problem I had with it was that they left Griffon's ending loose. But I'm hoping there'll be a sequel that, at the very least, explains what happens to him. Or a prequel that expounds on the history of this war. There are so many possibilities.

The paladins don't really need any sort of childhood event to make them hate Jumpers; they're religious nutcases (emphasis on 'nutcases'); unreasonable intolerance is pretty much their job description.

And the living room was attached to the rest of the house, which is why it was impressive; he separated the entire room from the house. The only reason it was difficult was that the room was fairly secure. When it's secure like that, it'd be like trying to move an entire continent, at least, and just breaking off a weak part.

And while nothing explicitly states that they aren't more resistant than regular humans, there's nothing to say that they aren't. You shouldn't have to be spoon-fed that kind of thing.

I honestly never noticed the camera thing, and I could care less. It's only, what, a few seconds at most in the entire movie.

15/10 to offset FC's and bring us up to a 9/10 average, which is what I'd normally give it.

Nah, still don't see the light. The movie was sloppy, especially with the lack of other Jumpers. If the filmmaker's intentions were to leave me to assume certain things existed - like a resistance of more than two people - without some kind of clue other than a character that says "There is a resistance of more than two people," I call it shoddy storytelling. The graphics were fantastic, I'll give them that, but it seems thats where 99% of the budget went. The other fraction seemed to be pumped into plane tickets to odd locales and whatnot.

That and the main character's mom being a paladin at the end? There are twists that work and then there are twists that feel like someone decided, "Hey, we got 10 minutes of film in this reel left. Let's add some crap, fade to black with violins, and roll credits."

Still give it a bare 3/10.

Well I really enjoyed the movie. Visually it is fantastic, and movies are a visual media so it's a big plus in my books. It wasn't the best story in the world, but it does seem to me to be a setup movie. It has introduced us to the world in jumper but left enough out so we are left wondering. My bet it the 2nd movie will be far better.

i saw the movies but i liked it
hehehehe funny teleportation punch it was good though i saw it with a mate so it makes it a little better

Yes.

i have to agree as well the main character was more or less the dumbest guy in the movie that kinda irked me and the way it ended spiolers ---> why the hell would you go there and basically tell her to try and find and kill him i mean come on thats just dumb

worst story line ever

but i like the movie mainly the teleporting and bad jokes they play with it

it made me luagh and like the movie