Jumper = only 15%?!?

CURRENT RATINGS:

 6/10

Movie:

Jumper (2008) I went to watch 'Jumper' tonight at IFC after work... 

I saw the trailer when I went to watch 'L' last week and it piqued my interest...   I didn't read any reviews or look at the tomatometer before I saw it... I wasn't expecting anything more than what you get from the trailer... a 'Heroes' like sci-fi story about a guy who learns he can teleport around like Nightcrawler from the X-men....   and thats pretty much what you get!  Not Shakespeare,  not groundbreaking cinema, but entertaining enough...

Its got Samuel L Jackson too! can't do much better than that!  I didn't even notice from the trailer that the lead was Hayden Christiansen... looks like he's got a good chance to beat that Mark Hamill Curse!  ;-)

So I was a bit surprised to see that the movie scored a pretty abysmal 15% on the Tomatometer...    Some of the review excerpts are pretty brutal too... ' is so bad that it might be useful in film classes to show students what not to do' and 'So freakin' awful.' It wasn't that bad!  YES the characters are a bit one dimensional, YES they don't really give you that much (any) background on the bad guys, YES i didn't really buy the love story stuff,  YES the ending is just a giant non-ending (set up for a sequel),  but that doesn't mean it was a horrible movie...  I enjoyed the action scenes, some pretty impressive special effects and of course an interesting Sci-Fi premise, the plot wasn't very predictable at all...  worth watching if you're a fan of the genre.  I'll give it a 6/10. 

ps - the new layout of RT's pages sucks.. change it back!