BlueBlack Atlantis

I go hard on movies that have grade A stars and suck at the same time.  I was 'intrigued' by Jumper.  The concept of the movie was interesting.  Ever since they got the visual effects of teleportational combat right with Nightcrawler from the X-Men in the movies I was waiting for it to be taken to the next level.  With Christen and Samuel it looked like I was going to get that chance (though regular readers of my blog already KNOW how I feel about the darkskin brothers with blond hair). 

 The movie's premise showed promise.  There are teleporters born throughout history and they are hunted by a shadowy agency.  Teh battles between teleporters and between the teleporters and the organization are top notch.  It was an incredible montage that definitely spoke to this modern world of 'instantaneous'.  I have no complaint about that aspect of the film.  My issue is with the story line....it sucked.

 It was hinted that teleporters existed throughout history yet no kind of explanation about that.  No kind of where they were or what they did or even why they teleported.  The organization that hunted them 'paladins' was also hinted to go back through antiquity yet nothing in terms of their overall organization or history was given.  Is it a set up for pt II?  Who knows.  What I do know is that I was looking for those gaps in the story line to be filled and they weren't.

Also it turned out the main character, a teleporter, had a 'paladin' (the organization that hunted them) as a mother who left him because she didn't want to be responsible for killing him.  This was the big 'secret' of the movie....'yawn'.    There are a billion and one ways that an elementary story writer could've beefed up the script.

*give some flesh and bones to the teleporters and paladins

*kill the romantic interest instead of the 'sidekick' character

*destroy the whole 'mother' subplot

And those are just immediately off the dome.  Wait until this one comes to video or find it on the net (hint).

Peace