Jumper - Review

So the other day I watched Jumper. It was probably one of my most anticipated movies of the year. It’s an adaption from the book of the same name written by Steven Gould. From what I hear there were a lot of changes made story-wise in the movie. So anyways the story goes like this. David discovers that he has the ability to teleport from one place to the other, but the catch is that he should be able to visualize where he wants to go. In other words it should be a place he has already gone to by other travelling methods. The movie doesn’t clarify much whether he can go to places he sees in photographs, probably he can, but I’m not that sure. He has photographs lying in his apartment of his “Jump-Sites” which I think he has taken after he had gone there. So yeah, probably he can’t go to places he hasn’t visited before. If any of you know otherwise let me know.

Anyways when he discovers his powers, he leaves his drunk of a father and robs a bank. Who wouldn’t? He was only 15 years old and being abused by his father, abandoned by his mother, and had no money. So he robs the bank. After eight years of living a great life, teleporting where ever he wished he runs into Roland Cox, a Paladin who hunts Jumpers. As history goes Paladin’s have been hunting Jumpers for centuries. Paladin’s has seen Jumpers go mad with power and they put it upon themselves to stop them by killing all Jumpers. So it is an all out war between the Jumpers and Paladins. We only see three Jumpers in the movie. But since this is a trilogy I expect to see more in the sequels. It’s a pretty interesting concept where both parties think they are doing the right thing. There is no good or bad, just Jumpers fighting for their lives and Paladin’s hunting the people who would eventually destroy humanity, possibly. They even show glimpses of how Jumpers doesn’t care about others when Griffin (another Jumper) teleports a large bus filled with people onto Roland Cox. Paladin’s are no saints either as they have killed families of Jumpers just to capture and kill a Jumper. Which is pretty cool.

The effects of jumping and all the actions were awesome! I was like “whoaaaa…” while watching the movie. It was that good. But the story has much to be attained and the movie was too short. I expected to see all out war but instead got two jumpers fighting an arrogant Paladin plus an annoying love story in the middle. The movie has such an awesome premise. They could have done so much more and I’m pretty disappointed at the ending. But hopefully they can make it work in the next two sequels. So all in all it’s a pretty good movie which you will enjoy if you like movies with great action sequences. Who wouldn’t want such an ability to jump wherever you want? That’s the coolest ability ever!! I can think of soooo many things I can do with that ability if I had it.

Oh and yeah apparently David goes to surf in the Maldives. I didn’t know that we got that much “surfable” waves. *shrug*