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Jumper was pretty decent. I have been looking forward to it ever since I saw the trailer the first time and I guess the movie is about as good as the trailer. The concept of a small amount of people having the power to teleport is of course very cool, too bad that they all seem to be pretty egocentric people. I really liked the poke at this from a TV newscast in the movie; you see people being caught up in a disaster and needing to be rescued with a comment like “who will rescue them?” from the reporter.

I would like to have seen more of the background of the war between the Jumpers and the Paladins. The story definitely needs that pretty badly, and also some more insight on why David behaves as he does. I did like the movie though, it was highly entertaining and had nice special effects. The ending did suck, didn’t like it much, but it clearly points toward the rumoured sequel.

My rating is 3.5 stars out of 5.

I’ve finally watched Cloverfield after dodging spoilers on the web for seemingly forever! After looking forward to it ever since the first enigmatic teaser and I really enjoyed it! I understand that it probably doesn’t have a huge mass-market appeal but JJ Abrams rocks, the basic idea of showing only uncut footage from a video camera found in a disaster area is really cool. A lot of people in the audience tonight really didn’t like the ending, but I love that it stayed true to that core idea and didn’t switch to a voicever/military briefing/collage of newspaper articles and news stories/or whatever you might think of as an explanatory ending.

The 1st person perspective showing us bits and pieces of the whole puzzle instead of relying on the normal formula of cutting back and forth from the scene of the disaster to shots from the Pentagon, the White House, local authorities etc. Things like seeing the authorities’ reaction when they realized that one of the main characters had been bitten but then not showing us more than a glimpse of the consequences is brilliant. Of course I still would like to know more; where did the thing/things come from, what happened to it, what happened to New York etc. I don’t think I would like to see a sequel but something like a novel that expanded on this would be great. To stay with the basic idea of storytelling it could consist of several 1st person accounts from different parts of the government, the military, news journalists and other people caught up in the event.

I won’t speculate on what the monster was, what exactly happened etc, check the entry on IMDb instead and every possible theory is already there.

My rating is 4.5 of 5 stars!