Jumper Reviled
Feb. 15th, 2008 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lillibetThis Slate review of the movie Jumpers is amusing me this morning. A few choice bits:
Hayden Christensen is an actor of precisely one affect: a petulant, boyish entitlement so impregnable it borders on malevolence.
...jumpers live life "with all the boring parts cut out." That would definitely rule out this movie.
Only Sam Jackson could spray in a way that makes you think, man, that's some badassed spraying.
Those [Swingers and Go] were movies about amoral jerks with pitiable aspirations toward a materialistically imagined "good life." So is Jumper; but it also feels, depressingly, like a movie by one.
Hayden Christensen is an actor of precisely one affect: a petulant, boyish entitlement so impregnable it borders on malevolence.
...jumpers live life "with all the boring parts cut out." That would definitely rule out this movie.
Only Sam Jackson could spray in a way that makes you think, man, that's some badassed spraying.
Those [Swingers and Go] were movies about amoral jerks with pitiable aspirations toward a materialistically imagined "good life." So is Jumper; but it also feels, depressingly, like a movie by one.
