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Anakenobi
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4/20 3:59pm
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Finally was able to see the film yesterday at one of those theaters that show films that are on dvd or about to go on dvd.
I agree with someone else's opinion concerning that the film didn't deserve some of the craptacular reviews it got. It's nowhere as bad as I expected (based on the critics reviews, that is). If anything, this film proves that you shouldn't always listen to critics. Because it was worth viewing.
Sure, the actors weren't giving Shakespearean-quality performances. But who in their right mind expects that in an action flick. It's not like Stallone, Schwarzenegger or Jackie Chan built their careers with good acting. In my opinion, critics just like to JUMP on a film from time to time and tare it to pieces. Just to show how bad-arse they are.
It wasn't a perfect film but it was better than some of the foreign crap critics love to push down our throats.
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HookLineAndSinker
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Just saw the film and I must say it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It certainly isn't one of my favorites, but if they make two more films I'd probably watch them. If nothing but to see some sort of conclusion cuz that was one of my problems with the film. None of the main characters died and they left the whole mom subplot thing wide open for a sequel.
My biggest issue was the character of David. He is not as much as a hero as the end of the film paints him to be. For starters he faked his own death. Thankfully he gave Millie the snow globe back so that she didn't cry herself to sleep for the next few months. But still the father thought he was going crazy and what about the Mark kid? He grew up to be a drunk which I wouldn't be surprised if it started just after he thought he got some poor kid killed. Then there was the robbing of the banks. Stealing peoples well earned money. Then there was the womanizing of different women across the globe. Should we count the number of times he broke into places he shouldn't have been in? Then there was the people who were drowning in flood waters that he didn't seem to care about. Yeah he cant save everyone, but how about just a few every now and then? Finally he hung around some guy named Griffin who managed to kill way too many motorists.
Now granted they pretty much showed he wasn't a bad person, but it still doesn't feel right and I certainly wouldn't call him a hero.
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6/11 6:52am
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This is on DVD now, yes?
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Dark_Jedi_Kenobi
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Yep, the DVD has been released.
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HookLineAndSinker posted:
Just saw the film and I must say it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It certainly isn't one of my favorites, but if they make two more films I'd probably watch them. If nothing but to see some sort of conclusion cuz that was one of my problems with the film. None of the main characters died and they left the whole mom subplot thing wide open for a sequel.
My biggest issue was the character of David. He is not as much as a hero as the end of the film paints him to be. For starters he faked his own death. Thankfully he gave Millie the snow globe back so that she didn't cry herself to sleep for the next few months. But still the father thought he was going crazy and what about the Mark kid? He grew up to be a drunk which I wouldn't be surprised if it started just after he thought he got some poor kid killed. Then there was the robbing of the banks. Stealing peoples well earned money. Then there was the womanizing of different women across the globe. Should we count the number of times he broke into places he shouldn't have been in? Then there was the people who were drowning in flood waters that he didn't seem to care about. Yeah he cant save everyone, but how about just a few every now and then? Finally he hung around some guy named Griffin who managed to kill way too many motorists.
Now granted they pretty much showed he wasn't a bad person, but it still doesn't feel right and I certainly wouldn't call him a hero.
Have any of ya'll read the novels? There are at least two novels that this movie film can evolve from, Jumper and Reflex. There are talks of them making a sequel.
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Vortigern99
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It seemed to me that the film specifically showed us that David was NOT a hero in the compassionate, self-sacrificing (or at least self-risking) sense of the term... UNTIL he changed his spots near the end of the movie, in order to save the woman he loved. At that point he became a hero. It makes for more compelling character development, and makes the movie about something, than if he were heroic and selfless from the get-go.
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DorkmanScott
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I saw it today and also didn't hate it. I did agree with a lot of reviewers that it was fairly superficial. It never really digs into any of the concepts, just skims the surface and skips along from story beat to story beat. But it was fun enough that it didn't feel like a complete waste of time.
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That really annoyed me when they were doing the big fight jumping around the world, cool effects, but pointless, such as when they jump from some south american country to some wartorn middle eastern country (Lebanon? Iraq?) and some poor bastard in his pickup goes through their jumpscar with them and is promptly crushed by a tank. What??? Pointless loss of human life there.
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HookLineAndSinker
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Jedi_Reject_Jesse posted:
That really annoyed me when they were doing the big fight jumping around the world, cool effects, but pointless, such as when they jump from some south american country to some wartorn middle eastern country (Lebanon? Iraq?) and some poor bastard in his pickup goes through their jumpscar with them and is promptly crushed by a tank. What??? Pointless loss of human life there.
Exactly and it was almost as if the film wanted us to forget about the truck driver, bus driver and possible passengers, and other random people who were seriously injured or killed. It just sort of pisses me off. Some action movies do things where you think "they could have killed people!" but they leave it to your imagination, this one just did it and pretended like the two people responsible (hero and anti-hero) were still good people at heart despite so much that would point to the contrary.
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Panther50
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I thought it was an alright film, but nothing great and nothing I'd want to own or see again.
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Just saw this with the missus. Not a bad movie. I enjoyed it and just took it for what it is. It came off a little short and perhaps that was just the pacing of the stories. I did think that the characters were underdeveloped by a long margin. Perhaps that was intentional given the obvious seeds planted for sequels (David's mother, Mace Windu's knife, Rachel Bilson's beautiful body). I thought the concept was cool too. Overall, a good, enjoyable movie but nothing to sit and ponder in the hours or days afterward. I hope it gets a sequel.
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severian28
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You know i avoided this in the theater because of a. my " Hayden = Wood " theory and b. ( and this is rather uncharacteristic of me ) heeding terrible reviews, and am pleasently suprised out how enjoyable i found the film. Its true that low expectations and a used-DVD sale price does tend to make certain films more enjoyable for me, but this is one that i found myself wishing i has seen in the theater. Not a bad flick.
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Vortigern99
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It's good to know people are giving this movie a fair shake now that the (inexplicable) critical hostility has faded a bit. Parts of this film are simply flat-out awesome, even if it's a bit short and does not fully deliver on the promising premise.
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