Jumper [2008] | ![Jumper [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bFUX-rxPL._SL75_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Doug Liman
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Hayden Christensen, Diane Lane
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 117
Format: Colour, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 84
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5039036038034
ASIN: B0015VI348
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: June 16, 2008
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As preposterous action movies go, Jumper is pleasantly unpretentious and breezily entertaining. A young man named David (Hayden Christensen) discovers he has the power to teleport (or "jump") anywhere he can visualize. After using this power to steal and make a comfortable life for himself, he pursues the girl he longed for in school (Rachel Bilson, The O. C.). But as he does so, another jumper (Jamie Bell, Billy Elliot) and a pack of fanatical jumper-hunters called paladins (led by a white-haired Samuel L. Jackson) crashes into David's freewheeling life. Jumper wastes no time trying to explain how jumping works or delving into the hows and whys of the paladins; this is an alluring fantasy of power directed at a pell-mell pace by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Go). There's a brief moment when it feels like the movie will bog down in romance and vague gestures towards character development--happily, that's the moment when Bell appears and the whole movie shifts into overdrive. You might wish that Bell and Christensen had swapped roles; Bell has a far more engaging personality, and Christensen's bland good looks might better suit a more aggressive character. Nonetheless, Jumper has oodles of dynamism and nifty visual effects to propel its comic-book storyline forward. A variety of recognizable actors in bit parts (such as Diane Lane and Kristen Stewart, Panic Room) suggest that the filmmakers are laying the groundwork for sequels. Based on a critically-acclaimed science-fiction novel by Steven Gould. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com
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 Routine July 25, 2008
Having seen this film trailed at the cinema I was keen to see it when it was released on DVD. The premise of the eponymous `jumpers' leaping Sam Beckett-like through space was an intriguing one; although unfortunately this was pretty much all the film had to offer. Hayden Christiansen's wooden delivery hasn't changed from his stint as the young Darth Vader, and Billy Elliot's Jamie Bell, although providing a bit more dynamism, struggles to lift a film full of limp dialogue and long stretches of meandering conversation. On the plus side, Samuel L Jackson is as menacing as ever in his role as persecutor of the leapers (a `Paladin' as the film has it); sinister and brooding with his hair dyed shockingly white and brandishing an electrically charged whip with which he prevents the jumpers from moving before brutally killing them.
The film does have its moments: For example when Bell's experienced leaper mocks Christiansen's newbie and when the latter deposits his childhood nemesis in a bank vault to be found by the police. The chief problem with the film is that it doesn't really know where to go; when we discover that Christiansen's long-lost mother is a paladin there is the expectation that the film has further layers but these are not followed through, and at 84 minutes there is ample room to extend what is ultimately a disappointingly truncated movie.
 The worst movie I have seen this year July 15, 2008
This is a terrible movie with no plot or character development. This movie stole just over an hour of my life.
How did this movie get to any screen?! July 12, 2008
I'm dumbfounded. Who would invest time and loads of money on making "Jumper"? I'm simply amazed.
The concept of the movie is good, great even. There are some people, Jumpers, who have the ability to teleport, and there are other people, Paladins, who try to distroy Jumpers. So far, so good.
However: the plot and story line are miserable. I'm sorry to have to use that word, but I truly thought the dvd was defected and had jumped over a couple of scenes (no pun intended). One minute suspense is high and the movie is action-packed, the next minute, some months have passed, it's Winter and snowy all of a sudden and main character just happens to knock on the door of his mother, who left when he was five. It seemed out of place, and made me ask the question: if she was so easy to find, then way didn't the son do it sooner? "Jumper" is one of those movie, that you just have to shake off.
There is a little "but" to my lengthy "however". Kudos to the casting director. I mean, it is some feat to get that many great actors to star in a horrible movie. My two given stars are definitely for the casting director.
Louise
There is only one way to watch this film July 8, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
While I was out on business in Australia, we were invited to enjoy a unique experience at a local, fancy cinema. It was the perfect setup: they bring you your pre-selected meals during the film at your specified times; they bring you cocktails and other drinks if you wish, right on schedule; they have silver bowls of popcorn that are about eight times bigger than your head; they have ice-cream desserts smothered in chocolate; and to top it off, they have reclining leather lazy-boy type chairs.
And yet, in spite of all this, we watched this God-forsaken film, and it was still dreadful.
It was, however, remotely bearable due to the third Long Island Iced Tea, which is why I'm saying: if you're going to watch this film, the only way to do it is through the bottom of a glass. Several of them, if possible. It's not that I'm advocating that people should drink (especially if you're under age), but this film will make you want to drink to forget.
The acting was awful. I'm surprised that Hayden Christensen managed to land any new roles after the massacre of the Star Wars prequels. There's only so much you can blame on George Lucas and the casting agency, after all. Cardboard has more reality and emotion than Christensen will ever have in his entire career, unless perhaps digital editing is brought to such a high standard that they can manipulate his acting in post production. I used to think Keanu Reeves was bad with the 2D facial, but someone give Christensen an Oscar for most static performance, if only on the off-chance that he decides to quit while he's ahead and we never have to see another of his films.
Samuel L. Jackson was pretty ho-hum, too, and I can only surmise he accepted this role because he either needed the money, or he's getting senile in his later years, and thus making some suspect choices. And I cannot fathom what possessed Jamie Bell (from Billy Elliot fame) to take part in this film, except that perhaps it was in his contract to do so. Please, Lord, let that be the reason.
As for the story and plot ... I can only guess that the people who rated this film as three or more stars on here drank more than I did, because there were some plot holes so big that I could have jumped through them without any type of magical superpower. I don't know, maybe I was cleaning up some of the tandoori sauce that had dripped from my food onto my shirt, and while looking down I happened to miss some fundamental explanations.
For starters, if electricity is the only way to stop a Jumper from jumping, then someone please tell me how the hell the Spanish Inquisition ever managed to catch any of them? Oh wait, I know, no-one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition, right? They caught them by fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! (Apologies to Monty Python for now becoming associated to this awful, awful film.)
Either jumpers are dumb, or they're ... well, dumber than even I could imagine, and after watching this, that must be really dumb. I mean, after all this time Jumpers haven't cottoned on to the idea that they can get their hands on as much money as they want and, ummmm, maybe research some cool weapons, or protective armour. All they can do is jump around in terror trying to run away all the time.
Like I said: dumb.
Possibly the worst aspect of all with this film was that I couldn't leave. The food was good. The drinks were arriving like clockwork. I was still waiting for dessert. It was all paid for!
Actually, no. I lie. The worst aspect of all was watching the end of the film and realising, "Dear God, they're going to make a sequel!" You could see it hanging there, like the foul stench over a garbage tip. And, sure enough, if I go to Google, it gets worse. Doug Liman (the director) has not one, not two, not three, but another four stories in his head according to Christensen. FOUR?! What the hell? Are these people insane?! Did you watch the same film I did?
Dear God. Four more stories. My liver would never take it.
 Good, but not great! July 4, 2008
Well it seems that a lot more people than I realised didn't like this movie, which is a little disappointing as I thought it was pretty good, ok so it isn't in the same league as Liman's Bourne Identity, but it's a pretty original and entertaining slice of sci-fi fun! In this respect it's refreshing that it doesn't take itself too seriously like so many other sci-fi films that try to be too 'epic' for their own good when they clearly just don't have the legs for it! The concept of teleportation is really interesting and Liman does an excellent job of conveying it on screen both visually and by explaining the mechanics behind it - clever stuff. However there are several disappointing aspects to this film, the main one is Hayden Christensen who is an amazingly bad actor and manages to bring down the entire film! In contrast to him though Jamie Bell does a very good job with his character, and Samuel L. Jackson is always easy to watch! So will there be a Jumper 2 as the ending implies? Well there is plenty of room to explore the story further and certainly lots of room for improvement, which in a way is better for a sequel than if the first film was brilliant to try and live up to and exceed, which is often why sequels are never as good! I for one would like to see a sequel but will the disappointing performance of the first film at the box office justify one, we'll have to wait and see.
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