Jumper...

The product of a broken home, Davey Rice (Hayden Christensen) is looking for a way to escape from his abusive father -- and finds it when he discovers he can teleport himself at will. But Davey's newfound powers soon become a double-edged sword that exacts a terrible price … and attracts unwanted attention from the National Security Agency. Director Doug Liman's sci-fi thriller also stars Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane and Tom Hulce.

Elise, Dan, Rico, Chris, Aaron, Ashley, and Laura (friends and co-workers) came over tonight for some snacks and a movie. After about 4 hours, it ended up being Elise, Dan, Ashley and myself watching the movie. Aaron came back about an hour into the movie to watch the ending because he had seen it before. I actually watched the movie a few nights ago and wanted to see it again. Tina was even to tired to watch the movie and about half way through went in Molli's room and fell asleep. I guess they all can't hang with the "old" man! LOL. Any way, the movie was Jumper. While I'm really not a huge Sci-Fi fan, I do like the idea of science fiction. It's basically dreaming the impossible or improbable and putting it into a movie. I know horror is a lot like that as well, but to me there is a big difference between the two genre's. For one thing, Sci-Fi is the "smart" man's horror. Science Fiction has always been looked upon as the more intelligent genre just solely on it's subject matter. Think of the old Star Trek shows. Taking a ship into space at warp-factor speeds. That's science, math, physics, and all the fancy school subjects that I hated as a kid! On the other hand, you can have a horror movie based solely on death. I know I've simplified the two genre's, but I think you know what I mean. I'm a horror fan, pure and simple. I like the fear. Fear is like a drug to me. I don't know if you've ever felt true fear before, but it is like an adrenaline rush to me. OK, enough of my "fear" addiction...

Jumper is a movie about people who have the ability to teleport themselves, objects, and others anywhere they want to go in the world. Not back in time, or forward in time... present time. The whole concept of the movie was interesting to me. Think about what you could do if you could take yourself anywhere!!! What did our main character do in the movie first... he robbed a bank, by teleporting INTO the vault and taking all the movie back to his room. Interesting... I would not have thought of that. I was thinking more about world travel and the like. Anyway, he was around 15 when he left home and honed his craft for 8 years before things began to catch up with him. Samuel L. Jackson played the leader of a cult that hunts these jumpers down and kills them because he believes only God should have that kind of power and ability. The action scenes were very well done. It was difficult to tell that several things were CGI... I appreciate that very much, because I really hate too much CGI crap in a movie. You might as well watch a cartoon in my book. We all enjoyed the movie and I would have to say that I would recommend this to any movie fan of action, thrillers, or Sci-Fi... but I must admit, I think any movie fan would be able to enjoy this movie. That's just my opinion. Check out the trailer and give it a look... teleport to your video store and get a copy. Enjoy...



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