Hayden Christensen

Jumper
$19.98
I rented and watched this movie off of Netflix recently, when I have asked people I know if they liked it most people either hadn't seen it or said it was just okay so I wasn't expecting much out of this. However I did actually enjoy this movie. It gets going pretty fast and keeps this pace through out the whole movie and at 88 minutes long its just the right length as to not get stale. Hayden Christensen plays David Rice who has the ability to Jump, Jumping in this movie is an ability some have that allows them to teleport to anywhere they have been before instantly. After learning of this ability David runs away from home and his alcoholic father to New York, where he robs a bank. David is living a wonderful life and all seems well until Samuel L. Jackson's character Roland Cox who is a member of a secret organization that hunts down and kills Jumpers known as The Paladins catches up with him. The rest of the movie is a globe trotting action extravagnaza as David must protect his childhood sweet heart from this vicious hunter, and teams up with an unstable Jumper Griffin played by jamie Bell.

So all in all this movie was worth the rental, and I would encourage anyone who has not seen it to check it out. Christensen does a much better job in this movie than his boring performance in StarWars(although his evil scenes in StarWars were good), and the special effects, locations, and action sequences were pretty cool as well. I give this movie a 3 out of 5.

Awake
$14.95
Thank you so much for such expedient service. The video was great. I will most definitely continue to do business with this merchant. Thanks again.

Jumper: Griffin's Story
$9.99
I will admit this game had some cool ideas, and there was a lot of potential in this title to be something great. The problem is, the developer; Collision Studios and publisher; Brash Entertainment didn't really even bother to try to make something good. This game is nothing more than a miserable, lazy, mish-mash of bad design choices. The game is repetitive, boring, and uninteresting.
WHAT THE GAME IS: The story is about a teenager named Griffin, a "jumper" (People who have the ability to teleport) whose parents were murdered and now he's seeking revenge against the "paladins" (People who hunt jumpers) who killed his parents. The game is a third-person action/adventure title. Unfortunately, despite the cool comic-style presentation in the cutscenes, the storyline never gets used to any of its potential, and ends up being a retread you've seen before in far better games.
GRAPHICS: Not too bad, not too good. The game is a cel-shaded title, and I really like how the characters looked in cel-shading (Even if the enemies were repetitive in designs). However, the environments are boring, drab, and uninspired. These are the kind of level designs you would normally see in a game made a decade or more ago. The environments are never interesting to look at, even when they throw you in places like China or Japan, it still looks boring.
MUSIC: Sounds sort of like something you'd here in a super hero film, but it's not that good. The musical score is boring and never entices any excitement, as a super hero game should.
SOUND: The actors themselves weren't bad, but the dialogue is. Most of the sound effects consist of you killing enemies with your weapons or even guns from enemies. This area isn't too bad, but it could have been done better.
GAMEPLAY: This is where the experience falls apart. The combat is a chaotic mess, because during combat, Griffin will randomly teleport all over the place as you press the X or Square button to attack, while occasionally using a more powerful attack with the circle button. The game has a poor difficulty level. You know you've got design flaws when enemies with shock prods are tougher to kill than the bosses themselves. Most of the game has you killing random thugs... ENDLESSLY through six levels and then fight a boss. By the time I finished the game, I had killed more than 500 enemies, and the levels aren't very long, they just make you kill lots and lots of enemies. There's little in the way of puzzle-solving, outside of using your teleporting move. To do this; use the right analog stick and aim, then press R1 to make him move there. You can only move there if it's highlighted in white. The teleporting technique is amusing and cool for a few minutes, before the novelty wears off and you realize it actually sucks.
OVERALL: Don't buy this game. It's not the worst game I've ever played. Hell, it's not even awful enough to be put on my ten worst games list. But it still sucks and is a perfect example of how a cool idea (When improperly used) can go so wrong. Want a cool cel-shaded title? Go play XIII (Xbox, PS2, GC, PC) or Killer 7 (PS2, GC).
THE GOOD: The cel-shaded characters, comic book-style cutscenes, some moment when the gameplay seems cool.
THE BAD: Boring and repetitive gameplay, ugly environments, bad difficulty balance, uninteresting music, and a poorly written storyline.

Danielle Steel's: No Greater Love
$9.98
My mother was happy to be able to watch another Danielle Steele movie. It arrived in good condition and right on time.
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