Jumper
Directed by Doug Liman
Starring Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell, Diane Lane
Rated PG-13
Release date: Feb. 14, 2008
One of the cardinal rules of good filmmaking is to not underestimate the intelligence of your audience. There are different levels, but it makes you wonder which is the bigger crime: not trusting your audience to figure out a movie on its own without being beat over the head with the answer, or thinking they aren’t smart enough to notice that they could have known the answer if given a plot to do so. One of the first lines in Jumper told me all I needed to know about the intentions of the film:
“It didn’t used to be this way. I used to be a regular chump. Like you.”
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