And she has life in her eyes and real pluck. She has that husky, warm voice filled with much humor and so many smarts. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" is simply a creatively bankrupt package deal through which a lot of people will make money and Goldberg's career will receive a setback. I thought she was wonderful in " The Color Purple," but that movie is a different case and belongs in a different category. This is a waste not only of talent, but also of warmth and charm: Despite everything, Goldberg survives this movie as a likable, interesting, warm and infectiously funny person. The soundtrack includes two versions of the song ' Jumpin Jack Flash ': the original by the Rolling Stones, and a remake by Aretha Franklin heard over the end credits. The film was directed by Penny Marshall in her theatrical film directorial debut. (She comes closest to that over the computer.) What's going on here? Did they think that Goldberg was simply too odd, too original, too unconventional to appear in a movie where she interacts on an everyday human basis? Her character lives alone, seems to have no real friends and is treated by the screenplay at arm's length. Jumpin Jack Flash is a 1986 American spy comedy film starring Whoopi Goldberg. What she will not do is play a single scene with another actor in which the basis of the dialogue is simple human conversation. She will crash an embassy ball dressed like Tina Turner, outsmart the British computers, carry on war with her boss at the bank, break into Elizabeth Arden's and fall in love through the computer with Jack Flash. In the course of the movie, Goldberg will nearly fall off the roof of the British Embassy, and will get shot at by spies, chased by hit men and dragged in a runaway phone booth. To kill time with meaningless cuteness, I say.
Then why the goofy business of the password? To make sure she's smart, he says.
Jumpin Jack Flash is available to watch, stream, download and buy on demand at Amazon, Google. It has received moderate reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 5.9 and a MetaScore of 52. Jack Flash is the pseudonym for a British agent who's marooned in Russia and desperate to get information from the British Embassy that may allow him to escape. Jumpin Jack Flash is a 1986 romance movie with a runtime of 1 hour and 45 minutes. Then she finds herself in the middle of an international intrigue.
She tries out a lot of passwords - including the first names of all of Mick Jagger's girlfriends - before she finally stumbles on the right one.
That is also the name of a Rolling Stones tune, and he challenges Goldberg to figure out his secret password key on the basis of that one clue. One day, it picks up another signal from Russia: a desperate cry for help from a man who signs himself Jumpin' Jack Flash. Goldberg plays a computer operator in a big New York bank, and it's a standing joke in her department that her computer terminal sometimes picks up Russian television.