I will do a brief review of the movie, then talk about to points that confused the dickens out of me.
-Story-
A young boy, whose mom left the family before he was five (I think), accidentally falls into a frozen river, trapped underneath the ice. He then teleports out of the river into the library, soaking wet. He then proceeds to live life to the fullest, teleporting into banks, stealing money, visiting exotic places for free (because he can teleport). After being gone for ten years, ditching his father, a friend, and pretty much everyone, he comes across a secret and strangely well-funded group of people who hate (religiously) people who can teleport. So while on a date with a former (girl) friend that he hasn't seen in ten years because he, you know, left everyone and everything behind, he comes under attack from the group, led by Samuel L. Jackson. After that he comes to find out that there are more teleporters than just him, and that his mother was one of these religious zealots. The people kidnap his now girlfriend, kill his father, and so he tries to go rescue his girl, and he ends up teleporting notonly himself, but also a large section of the building he is in, under water, then into the library. Then
It's not a bad movie, but not excellent.
Now that I am done with the amazingly condensed and probably poor synopsis, here are my two questions.
1) It becomes known that the group of religious idiots (question #2) can follow the teleporters using a machine that reopens their "jump scars", rips in space-time that lead exactly to where the teleporter "jumped," or teleported. So, after fiding this out, what does our hero do? jump staight from where the bad guys are to the good guys hideout in a remote place in the desert. WTF. Why? Just teleport from there to, say, new york, move two feet to the left, then teleport somewhere else, like perhaps underwater (although that technically wouldn't work, because it would be you + water, and two things cannot exist in the same place at the same time), or maybe 2000 feet into the air, so the people following you just fall to their deaths. It's shown that he can teleport whilst falling, so why not?
2) The religious group is retarded. Seriously, uncomprehensibly, retarded. Their logic is that "only God should have to power to be in two places at once." Umm, what? Just because the dude can teleport doesn't make him omnipresent. It seems that no one figured this massive gaping flaw in their logic(almost bigger than the one in the new Star Trek movie*). I mean come on, it's not even close. The dude is human. A person who could teleport could theoretically be two places at once, but that would require them to teleport every .00000000000000000000000001 second back and forth, changing his actions each time to fit what he is doing at each location . And that's just silly.
For a group as well-funded (they can re-open space-time, for crying out loud)as these guys, they are remarkably stupid. There's one point where the hero asks why the people are hunting him, and Jackson responds with the above quote. The hero should have just said "that's nice, because God is still currently the only one who can. Look around. Where am I? I am not behind you, nor next to you, nor am I above you. I am currently being strangled by you. if I could be everywhere at once, I would be punching you in the kidneys and the brain right now. But I am not. Now please let me go and find some other super-powered folk to wipe out." Had he said this, the whole movie would have been over right then.
Also, the mom, who left the family because of the teleporting son, is an even bigger idiot than the rest of them.
*The Star Trek plot hole where instead of going back to Romulus and warning his people of the impending supernova, see his loved ones again, maybe further his peoples technology since his ship is from the future, Nero decides the best option would be to sit around and wait for 25 years for Spock.
-Story-
A young boy, whose mom left the family before he was five (I think), accidentally falls into a frozen river, trapped underneath the ice. He then teleports out of the river into the library, soaking wet. He then proceeds to live life to the fullest, teleporting into banks, stealing money, visiting exotic places for free (because he can teleport). After being gone for ten years, ditching his father, a friend, and pretty much everyone, he comes across a secret and strangely well-funded group of people who hate (religiously) people who can teleport. So while on a date with a former (girl) friend that he hasn't seen in ten years because he, you know, left everyone and everything behind, he comes under attack from the group, led by Samuel L. Jackson. After that he comes to find out that there are more teleporters than just him, and that his mother was one of these religious zealots. The people kidnap his now girlfriend, kill his father, and so he tries to go rescue his girl, and he ends up teleporting notonly himself, but also a large section of the building he is in, under water, then into the library. Then
stuff happens, big fight with Sam Jackson, dude gets the girl, and lives teleportingly ever after.
It's not a bad movie, but not excellent.
Now that I am done with the amazingly condensed and probably poor synopsis, here are my two questions.
1) It becomes known that the group of religious idiots (question #2) can follow the teleporters using a machine that reopens their "jump scars", rips in space-time that lead exactly to where the teleporter "jumped," or teleported. So, after fiding this out, what does our hero do? jump staight from where the bad guys are to the good guys hideout in a remote place in the desert. WTF. Why? Just teleport from there to, say, new york, move two feet to the left, then teleport somewhere else, like perhaps underwater (although that technically wouldn't work, because it would be you + water, and two things cannot exist in the same place at the same time), or maybe 2000 feet into the air, so the people following you just fall to their deaths. It's shown that he can teleport whilst falling, so why not?
2) The religious group is retarded. Seriously, uncomprehensibly, retarded. Their logic is that "only God should have to power to be in two places at once." Umm, what? Just because the dude can teleport doesn't make him omnipresent. It seems that no one figured this massive gaping flaw in their logic(almost bigger than the one in the new Star Trek movie*). I mean come on, it's not even close. The dude is human. A person who could teleport could theoretically be two places at once, but that would require them to teleport every .00000000000000000000000001 second back and forth, changing his actions each time to fit what he is doing at each location . And that's just silly.
For a group as well-funded (they can re-open space-time, for crying out loud)as these guys, they are remarkably stupid. There's one point where the hero asks why the people are hunting him, and Jackson responds with the above quote. The hero should have just said "that's nice, because God is still currently the only one who can. Look around. Where am I? I am not behind you, nor next to you, nor am I above you. I am currently being strangled by you. if I could be everywhere at once, I would be punching you in the kidneys and the brain right now. But I am not. Now please let me go and find some other super-powered folk to wipe out." Had he said this, the whole movie would have been over right then.
Also, the mom, who left the family because of the teleporting son, is an even bigger idiot than the rest of them.
*The Star Trek plot hole where instead of going back to Romulus and warning his people of the impending supernova, see his loved ones again, maybe further his peoples technology since his ship is from the future, Nero decides the best option would be to sit around and wait for 25 years for Spock.
