Friday, February 15, 2008

Teleport me outta here

The new film "Jumper" begs for teleportation puns, and I'm happy to oblige.
What starts out as a silly but slick tale of a man (Hayden Christensen) who can teleport at will becomes one the more incoherent films ... ever.
My review in The Washington Times takes no prisoners.
The trailer sure looked fun, and Samuel L. Jackson usually has a good sense for B-level projects ("Deep Blue Sea," "Snakes on a Plane").
But slapping a vanilla snow cone wig on him must have bent his radar.
(Photo: Samuel L. Jackson plays a man who hunts teleporters in "Jumper."

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At February 19, 2008 12:56 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The hardest-working man in Hollywood" may be taking upon himself the Curse of Caine (Michael) and showing up in anything so long as the check clears; his force of personality does elevate even dreck, but does dreck NEED elevation?

This film had decent source material, but apparently the creative and production teams concluded that like the last three Lucas films, story need not be present when Anakin/Vader and Mace are....

~ Dagnabbitt

 

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