Jumper

© 2008 20th Century Fox
Directed by: Doug Liman
Written by: David S. Goyer, Jim Uhls and Simon Kinberg
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Bilson, Diane Lane, Michael Rooker
U.S. Theatrical Box Office: $66,790,968
cumulative critic score on Rotten Tomatoes: 16% positive (out of 134 reviews)

I caught it second week and can confirm it feels like there are entire chunks of plot and character dev missing and you keep having to recontextualize yourself every few minutes as to what's going on and why. I could see someone making the argument that instead of a poops movie it's really a high concept experiment in matching form to content, i.e. the experience of watching jumper is not too dissimilar from the experience of the teleporting jumpers in the movie. I could see how someone might make that argument and still think the movie blows.

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© 2008 Sinlechuga / Dan Hoy