Movie Review: Jumper

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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DVD Review: 1408

Haunted hotel rooms are commonplace. Google your hometown and the topic and you're bound to come up with at least one nearby. Usually the back-story involves a visitor or hotel employee who met their unfortunate end on the premises. But that's nothing compared to the Dolphin's room 1408. 1408 is the mother of all haunted hotel rooms, having claimed more than 50 "victims," and looking for more when skeptical and emotionally burnt-out writer Michael Enslin (John Cusack) checks in. Only Stephen King could concoct such a notion, though it is Swedish director Mikael Håfström who brought the story to the big screen...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!