After seeing a trailer for this movie a few weeks ago I decided to check it out without reading any reviews and again I’m glad I did.
This film appears to have caused a problem for some regarding the amount of unanswered questions remaining when the end credits roll but from what I could deduce, these people probably have no concept of the multiple movie story arc scenario.
This looked to all intents and purposes like part one of something, yes the story was left open but this is now a common factor in a lot of films nowadays with doors always left open for potential sequels.
Anyway enough “jumping” to the end of this story (apologies for the weak pun), our story starts in a common everyday American high school (Ann Arbor in this instance) with your common everyday run of the mill geek who wants the girl but doesn’t really know how to go about it.
Queue Hayden Christensen as David Rice who during an attempt to woo long-time love interest Millie (Rachel Bilson), falls through the ice on a frozen lake but ends up teleporting himself to the local library. After realising this is no fluke and a few practice runs to perfect his skills, he goes on a little shopping spree after robbing several banks by Jumping into their vaults.
Unfortunately after 8 years of jumping from place to place he has been noticed and now a group known as the Paladins are on to him. Led by Roland (Samuel L Jackson), the Paladins are Religious fanatics who for centuries have tracked down and killed countless Jumpers believing them to be an abomination against god.
David has also been noticed by Griffin (Jamie Bell), a fellow Jumper who has been fighting back against the Paladins and in particular Roland, hunting them down and killing as many in return as he can.
Will they form an unlikely alliance in an attempt to bring down the Paladins….?
I’ll leave that for you to discover yourselves but I would recommend that people ignore the bad reviews and give this movie a chance, the cast are all very good but Jamie Bell in particular steals the film as the wise cracking Griffin.
The Jumps are really well done and the film has a nice pace to it nipping from one exotic location to the next in double quick time. Character development is minimal but I believe this is due more to the fact that this is setting itself up to be part one of something bigger.
If handled correctly, Jumper could make an interesting addition to recent Sci-Fi lore as the concept is very good and the main character have a lot of potential.
Remember….Anywhere is possible.
Felgercarb Rating 8/10
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