Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #331 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-06-16
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Colour, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 84 minutes

Amazon.com
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

Synopsis
Based on Steven Gould's critically acclaimed novel, JUMPER leaps onto the screen courtesy of director Doug Liman. David (Hayden Christiansen, STAR WARS – EPISODE 3 – REVENGE OF THE SITH) has inexplicably been given the power to teleport himself, or jump. He can jump into a bank vault, then to the top of the Sphinx, then back to his luxury Manhattan apartment. But despite all his power, he still misses his childhood love, Millie (Rachel Bilson, THE O.C.). When the opportunity arises, David jets off to Rome with Millie, but it's not all romance in the Italian city. David's unique abilities place him in the middle of a war between the jumpers and the paladins, a secretive group intent on hunting down the teleporters. Led by Roland (Samuel L. Jackson), the paladins track David and fellow jumper Griffin (Jamie Bell) across the world, and Millie may be caught in the crossfire.
JUMPER moves as fast as its teleporting hero, condensing the novel into a slim, action-packed offering. The slick special effects and impressive locations are certainly on par with Liman's previous work in THE BOURNE IDENTITY and MR. AND MRS. SMITH, but JUMPER bears a closer resemblance to comic book adaptations. Like most comic book protagonists with unearthly abilities, David grapples with his newfound talents. But unlike his tights-and-cape-wearing brethren, David doesn't use his ability for the greater good. Instead, it gets him piles of money and, perhaps, the girl he's been dreaming of since he was five years old. Though most action films are driven by the struggle between good and evil, JUMPER interestingly offers up a central character who lies somewhere in the middle.

Customer Reviews

Well I thought it was great!
Seems to be a lot of negative reviews for this film which I find rather annoying. Hey this film is fast, fun and full of great ideas that are well realised. I think the fact the story and ideas are so good is why people are so critical i.e. They think it could have been so much better. I thought it Rocked and the SE's are really good.

I'm sure the negative reviews will continue for this movie just as the positive reviews continue for "Serenity" which truly is complete rubbish (I own it). Am I saying that some of the reviews are bogus for this movie? Hey watch "Jumper" and then make your own mind up!

Checkout the reviews for serenity here:
Serenity [2005]

Enjoyable but not as good as it could have been
I felt the story was a bit weak as the watchers are simply supposed to accept people kill jumpers and sometimes they fight back.

Christensen consistently comes across as a moody teenager, to be honest he acts exactly the same in Jumper as he did in Star Wars.

Although the acting wasn't very good and the story line had no depth (nor any depth to the characters either) I still quite enjoyed the film, enough to buy it when it became reduced in price.

I feel if they made a sequal it would be a mistake, however i feel this could potentially be turned into a good series.

Where's me jumper?
I was really excited as I put this into my DVD player because winter is really drawing in now and I was looking forward to getting a nice warm polo neck with a pretty pattern to go with my new scarf and mittens. What I got instead though was a thin slice of banality.

Jumper has an excellent tag line: Unpopular youth, played by Hayden Christensen, discovers he can instantaneously teleport to anywhere he wants (the 'jumping' of the title') and decides to use this esoteric skill to rob banks. But the reality of the execution though was something of a let down.

Sure it starts off ok. We see the main character some time after his initial discovery having created a good bit of wealth and living the high life. He is then discovered like a grubby school boy caught playing 'pocket billiards' by a mysterious Samuel L. who seems to have a bit of a prejudice against the lad for reasons that gradually become apparent as the movie progresses. And so we embark on a world wide jump fest in order to get to the bottom of the goings on.

Jamie Bell turns up as a more seasoned jumper and is probably about the best thing in the film. He's a cynical loner and likes it that way but is cajoled into helping Christensen fight the baddies. We also have Diane Lane as Christensen's mother in what seems to be a tacked on storyline about the Jumper's origins.

But where it mostly all goes wrong is with young Hayden himself who has yet to show any acting skill whatsoever in any of the films he's been in. The lad even managed to spoil Return Of The Jedi for me merely by being pasted into one of the later scenes for 5 seconds!

So what could have been a good movie is let down considerably by a poor lead and diminishing returns on the plot.

Now when do I get my new jumper?!