out of .Sucked big time. Big disappointment. It's not even an okay movie. Don't be misled by the nice trailers like me. I was looking forward to seeing it kasi Steven Gould's novels had good reviews. Honestly, it had a very good premise. David Rice lives a tough life. His dad's a jerk, he's being bullied in school, his mom left when he was 5. So when he finds out he can teleport, he runs away from his crappy life, goes on a stealing spree. Cut to 8 years later. He lives in New York City, with several "jumps" to amazing places around the world, and lives his life to excess. Enter Roland (Samuel L. Jackson in a horrendous dye job -- Dante he ain't) and several unnamed Paladins whose sole job is to kill jumpers everywhere.
It could have been a good movie if not for the plot holes, which are plenty let me tell you. I had some reservations about the movie because i didn't like Hayden in his previous movies. But since i read good reviews about the books and the premise looks interesting enough, i decided to watch it with my brother. But it ranked even with Queen of the Damned in its crappiness. It's one of those movies i wish i could erase from memory. Good premise but the delivery was meh. I rolled my eyes plenty of times during the movie, either for the not-in-a-good-way-cheesiness of the love story or for the stupidity of some of the characters.
The one star is for the nice intro into David's past, Jamie Bell's character named Griffin, the beautiful scenery, and the action scenes -- although in my opinion the action scenes were just excuses to show off some computer graphics. We're probably better off reading the novels.
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