movie review - Jumper
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
It's been quite some time since I watched this Sci-Fi/thriller. Now I've finally gotten around to writing it up, I have to say that in the intervening two years, I've thought about this movie a number of times. It's about a fellow who discovers that he has the ability to teleport without error to anywhere on the planet. Exercising this ability soon sees him amassing a fortune. And getting on the radar of a really strange religious sect that has made it their peculiar mission to track down and stop people with this gift.
That's certainly a bit contrived, and I think they might have found a better antagonist. Such as perhaps the international intelligence community. Running with this idea I could see him stealing something that allows his location to be revealed. Say, some electronics or something radioactive.
Anyway, I digress. I liked the way the story played out, and felt that they did a good job of portraying how the struggle to stop someone who can teleport anywhere at any time might go. I enjoyed the work of the lead, who I've seen a number of times in a range of things from financial fraud to the bloody Star Wars prequels.
Recommended.