By the way, this review is not work safe. When open, along with a few other programs, the internet page-button on the taskbar simply says "Sex Farm".

The main thing that interested me was Doug Liman, who has never made a bad film in my book: Go, Bourne Identity and Mr & Mrs Smith, plus his involvement in the OC. Only Bourne took off as a franchise but even if Jumper turned out to be par for the course, i'd still be entertained.

Take THAT Anti-Plant...

Anyway big deal. Rose McGowan had this power in Charmed and all it made her do was dress in different fetish outfits every week.

I thought this looked interesting. I do have to say, the line about the guy jumping with the bus to throw it at someone sounds cool.

I'll show myself out.

Hayden C? He has the aura of the kind of douchebag that would key your car for kicks and than throw back a Mountain Dew for being extreme.

Guess what? That's not badass.

The movies you mentioned were character studies, with great directors and actors. This is a B-list superhero flick. See, if this were a movie about a villain where we aren't supposed to cheer for the main character, then sure, what the fuck. Make him a douche. But guess what? This IS a formula movie, only that it's one where the hero is unlikable. That makes this a failure, even as a dreaded "Hollywood" production.

And guess what? None of the films you mentioned are anywhere close to being independent. They each had the backing of a major Hollywood studio.

For example, think about different people observing HG Wells's time machine (which didn't jump through time like the delorean, but sorta went through time faster than the stuff around it) as it goes a month into the future, leaving and arriving in some English person's living room. The English person notes the location of the machine on Jan 1, and on Feb 1, the machine is right back there in the living room; English guy says it hasn't moved. But a martian watching through a telescope on mars thinks the English guy is wrong, because the time machine started off X million miles from mars, and ended Y million miles from mars. Who's right? They both are: because it doesn't matter in any absolute sense.

or, to put it another way

press and hold shift and then press ,p.

It's very exciting having your own talkback. Anyway, main points to respond to...

- I didn't go in wanting to hate it. Yes, I'd thought the trailer was poor, and I'm honestly surprised to see so many people did like it, maybe I'll go and watch it again. But regardless of that, I liked the concept and I like Doug Liman (other than Mr and Mrs Smith not having an ending), so I was looking forward to seeing it and very much wanted it to be good, but I'd say my expectations were that it would be average.

- There's no absolute need for you to like the lead character I suppose, but in an action film (as opposed to a character-focused drama) I think it's essential that you have some reason to care what happens. For me, the film didn't succeed in that, and I got the feeling that I was supposed to like/root for Hayden. I didn't.

- The guy who mentioned that a Jumper has to have been/seen somewhere to jump there is correct. At the point where he sees the flood on TV, that has been hinted at, but I wouldn't say you know it for sure, and Hayden completely fails to convey anything beyond "I don't care". Regardless, he sees people in dire need of help and just SHRUGS. I can't do anything to help them either, but I'm sure you'd see a trace of compassion on my face as I look at people being swept to their deaths by raging torrents of muddy water. What's more, they actively seem to be setting him up for at least some kind of development. When SLJ is on his tail and shouting about how bad Jumpers are, he keeps yelling "what if I'm different?!". I'd expect, based on that, some kind of evidence that he is different to surface at some point in the film. It never does (we only meet one other Jumper to compare him to anyway), and the pay-off for that line is instead used to leave the film wide open for a sequel.

- Yeah, in the end, I did list quite a few action scenes. My point, not made very clearly, was that none of them are particularly good. They feel like setup, so that when the big action comes, we know who can do what and how and can just enjoy the ride. I didn't think it ever got beyond that stage, and other than the around-the-world sequence, most of those bits of action are very short.

For fuck's sake you are being asked to suspend disbelief that he can jump anyway and you're arguing that it isn't realistic because it doesn't take into account the curvature of the Earth. You massive group of dorks.

Yeah, OK, not particularly well written, English accent is obviously a better term, but it's a specific regional accent and I thought that'd be lost on most readers. He has his own accent - that's what I should have said.

And anti plant? Hell no! I'm a big fan of big-budget blockbusters and it pisses me off no end when they can't get them right. The fact that it's not being shown to press until so late should back up what I'm saying. And like I said, it's not terrible, it's just forgettable.

This is the dorkiest TB ever. Including Star Trek.