Jumper

Absolutely pointless movie. Guy can teleport, people want to kill him. He sorta gets away in end and that pretty much whole movie. Parents are terrible people, main characters a thief and amoral. Nothing is learned or revealed or lesson taught other than if you have powers you can get away with crime, isn't that nice. Pointless.

You can tell when the writers are struggling for a direction, any direction, to take this pointless movie. Don't waste your time. Even the actors can't seem to figure out where the plot is going.

I think this is a highly underrated movie. It probably could have been improved on just a bit... and I think they really left it open for a sequel... but I'm guessing that will never happen (looks like it lost $5 million, ouch!). That is really too bad, because it had some cool themes, and was acted rather well. Laughed watching it for the second time at who played the sister in the final scene hahahaha. Highly recommended SciFi film!

Ok, i'll jump right in. What I hated about this movie... besides the acting, writing, and directing....The female lead's character: Always wanted to visit Rome and the Colosseum since she was a child but when she gets there, doesn't know anything about it or even what language they're speaking.The main guy.... lives a consequence free life, which means he can be anyone or do anything so he decides to be a total idiot.

I liked this movie upon viewing. Great cast, good storyline and fantastic scenery. All I ever wanted to know was where's the sequel? This is an unfinished film. They need to do something about that. And since it's been awhile add a new lead character and a new villain. It's just that simple. So long as he keeps on jumping.

What can I say? This movie was pretty much pointless and what plot lines there are (and mighty thin they were) were left dangling at the end begging for a sequel that will never come.Hayden Christensen's "David Rice" was wooden. Rachel Bilsen's "Millie" was tossed into the story for no real reason. The story, such as it was, would survive without her character. David and Millie have no warmth between them; there relationship was not believable. David's mother appears out of nowhere as a heavy. The Paladin's are never explained. David's father is not explored nor is David's sadness explained when he takes his dad to the hospital. We don't even find out if dad lived or died. Why the Paladins have been hunting down and murdering Jumpers for 500+ years is never fully explained. David jumps into buildings. punches holes in the floors, floods and destroys libraries, jumps into crowded bars and airport terminals (in those cases without destroying the buildings) appearing from nowhere. At the hospital where his jump destroys the emergency room floor we can hear the voice of one man saying, "What happened here?". We don't know if that voice is referring to the patient or the destruction because it's an off-camera voice. Every other voice heard concerns the patient (dad) who is curled up in a depression in the floor that has been crushed down about 6". Do we ever hear even one voice says something like, "What the hell? Did a bomb just go off or did those guys just appear out of thin air, crash into the floor and destroy the ER?" Nope. Amid all of these sudden and oft times destructive appearances in crowded rooms only a single little boy in the Detroit airport seems to notice.The movie is a mess, it was a box-office and critical flop and that's why there was no sequel. I watched it and had to write this review immediately thereafter. Not because I am fanatically opposed to the film. I'm not. I had to write the review immediately after watching it because had I waited a day to write the review I'd have already forgotten most of it.

I liked it. But I was really hoping for a sequel. And all these years later I'm sure they could make it even better than the first one...It would be very easy to play off the ending.

I like the plot awesome it really brought to real life about how a person who could jump would live....The sad part was his mother said "Im giving you a head start" so it made for an interesting sequel ..... ahhhh I can't find it

I watched this in 3-D - the images were okay, the different locations interesting but then that was only the beginning of the end of my interest in this sheer mess of a movie which suffers from really two main factors - the script and acting.This is not to say that the actors involved are all bad, its just that they have had go lumbering along with a script thathasn't a clue what its going to do or say next and hence so too the actors.Jamie clips his dialogue at such a fast pace. you get the notion he really wants out of it altogether.The "Jumpers" can move in an instance to another part of a room or another country in minus a second - a fictitious idea that really hadn't been thought through enough with any real idea as to its meaningful purpose, just "hey, look, I can do this!" Whoosh! Hence, a lot of repetition throughout.I can only say the more Samuel Jackson was involved, the more I had hope for the remainder, but sadly he only appeared occasionally when bad things needed to happen to these pesky Jumpers. As it was I could hardly wait to to be a Jumper myself and fast forward into another movie.

The hero has the ability to jump to another location at will, but without the fantastic gizmos so beloved of sci-fi movies. There are always consequences to unusual abilities, and the easy wealth our hero accumulates is his undoing. He is pursued by a self-elected group who seek to trap all these 'abominations' who can move at will.Symptomatic of normal society, those with ability sometimes suffer at the hands of those jealous of them. Our hero meets another like him, but not with his temperament, so strains and contentions arise.A classic chase movie with a twist. Great special effects, and quite believable too, if we could only relocate in just such fashion! Maybe that's the film's secret, we all wish we had a superpower like that. I won't give the game away, but all antagonists think they are on the side of right, and the finale has a fantastic twist.I dropped a star from the rating because I found the acting a little stiff at times, but nevertheless, a very entertaining movie that is firmly in my collection.

loosely based on a series of books by steven jay gould, this is an action/science fiction movie, and first in a proposed trilogy telling one long story. David is a high school loner who pines for a female classmate. then one day caught in a life or death situation he finds he has the natural ability to teleport from place to place. leaving people thinking he's dead and making plenty of visits to bank vaults to get money, he's able to set himself up in a nice life as an independent world jumping playboy.but only then years later does he discover that he's not the only one who can do this, and there's a secret organisation out there who target those who can. on the run and trying to get together with his long lost sweetheart only an uneasy alliance with a more experienced jumper called griffin might save the day. but will he go as far into the war between jumpers and the organisation as griffin has?not a movie with any great depth, just an attempt at a decent piece of action entertainent. and to set up a franchise. it just about succeeds on both counts. hayden christiensen does bring a certain vulnerability to the role that means you can just about relate to his character [looks like a few other reviewers disagree with me on that, but to each their own]. rachel bilson and samual l jackson do their best with slightly underwritten roles as the love interest and the chief bad buy. but jamie bell livens up the film as bad boy giffin with an immensely appealing and entertaining performance.not a great movie, but not a bad start to the franchise. hopefully there'll be a sequel that can build on this.the dvd extras are as follows:a commentary by the director, the writer/producer, and another producerjumping from novel to film: a documentary about the origin of the story in book form and it's transition to screen. quite an interesting watch in regards to what it says about future films and the writer's views on books being turned into movies.making an actor jump: a short and quite interesting feature about the special effects involved in the teleportation scenessix deleted scenes. the first five all are quite good character moments that flesh things out, but were clearly cut for pacing reasons. the last is a neat little epilogue showing what happened to one character whom we last see in a bit of a jam. a fun little scene.jumping around the world: a short but decent feature about the locations usedjumper: exposed. a long documentary about the making of the film. rather than adopt the usual structured documentary format for these it instead shows lots of footage of the film in production from day to day of the shoot. quite fascinating stuff as a look at the movie business. although be aware there's a lot of strong language in it. and that it only makes a cursory mention right at the start of the fact that the two leads were recast after shooting had been going on for a few weeks.david's story. an animated graphic novel, telling of the main characters quest to find out more about his mother. the animation is a bit basic but the voice acting is quite good and as a story it's not bad, adding a little more depth to the main character.previz: future concepts. a cgi storyboarding of a rather spectacular fight scene. definitely not from this movie it's presumably something that might air in one of the proposed sequels.coming soon: trailers for the movies juno and be kind, rewind.the only language tracks and subtitles on the disc are in english. no other languages are available.as a movie 7.5/10 but the decent extras push the dvd up to an 8/10

Refer back to the original book (not the film-based re-write) and you'll see just how the movie takes a scared but plucky kid, intelligent, bookish, with a firm sense of right and wrong, escaping an abusive father and longing for his departed mother... and replaces him with a smirking self-satisfied empty greedy grubby little man and a very unconvincing plot about jumpers and peladons. Doug Liman's film scoops out the soul, excitement, personal discovery and scariness of being alone and different in an uncaring and selfish world with a bland, incoherent yarn involving unlikeable people. The quality of the film dips the instant it segues to the first appearance of Hayden Christensen and from that point survives only on the strength of shoehorned effects, John Powell's perky score, location prn and an against-current turn by Jamie Bell. Even mutated into a fantasy action flick this film fails to sparkle simply because the main characters are self-centred or devoid of any depth. In the end, you simply don't care, and it's almost worth a second watch just to see how so many promising elements fall flat. Fans of the book will probably daydream wistfully of an alternative reality where Max Thieriot's younger David Rice (already c.20 at the time of filming!) follows the book's plot of every lonely teen's greatest dream and nightmare rolled into one.

This is barely e-mailed. The locations for example, notable in a film about teleportation, are treated with such laconic disdain by the protagonist that it translates to the audience, and may just as well be the pictures needed to visit them. Flat and lacking atmosphere.David, (Hayden Christensen), is a teleporter with a lifestyle built on impulse and stolen luxury, until he encounters other teleporters as he is hunted by an organisation bent on their destruction.Why are they being hunted? Imagine a unification of teleporters, or 'jumpers'. They can go anywhere, take anything, and escape in an instant. They flout the law to their own gain, like modern day pirates, feared by law enforcement and thieves alike. Now keep imagining, because while that's hinted at, you won't see it here. The concept only serves to make Samuel L Jackson's villain Roland seem foolish, as hunting pushes the jumpers together where individually they seem inherently selfish, prone to crimes of decadence which seem petty in comparison to what their combined forces could achieve.'Could' is the keyword here. Throughout there are genuinely interesting ideas posed and wasted. The specific focus on teleporters, (unlike in superhero ensemble pieces), gives us a unique chance to explore the power further. How much can they teleport? How does teleporting affect the atmosphere around them? Sadly, if you don't care about the characters posing these questions, you won't care about the answers, and the character work isn't there.Individually? Rachel Bilson is cute but given nothing to work with. Teleporting is cool but we don't know if it's the only, 'power', in this universe. Samuel L Jackson is Samuel L Jackson, but he's laden with half-baked religious dialogue that never pays off. These elements almost appear to be in different movies cut and pasted together - the lack of chemistry between the elements make it difficult to care about the film as a whole, and while the climactic location-hopping battle is very cool, you can't help but wish you were seeing it in another movie where the outcome has some weight. As it is, you'll be laughing long before the conclusion of a ridiculous subplot involving David's mother.The only one to escape unscathed is Jamie Bell as fellow jumper Griffin. Where everything else in the film fails to connect Bell practically jumps off the screen; his rogue survivalist jumper is a funny, disarming shot of life in an otherwise flat affair, subtly twisted by what his powers have forced him through. He is David if there was no penthouse. He's begun to see what it means to be different and it's ironic that through him David sees the truth of Roland's mantra, 'There are always consequences.' Another intriguing concept, that we might sympathise with the villain, but as much as Bell elevates his sequences his character also serves to highlight how we mostly follow David in a time where he's jaded to the wonders of his powers, and before he's fully involved in the struggle. While he begins to comprehend a world outside himself Griffin is already in the thick of it, something you only sees glimpses of but that appears to be the more powerful story. Indeed for all its aesthetics, not much is shown worth seeing.So Jumper's not outrageously bad, but it's not good. It's got clever ideas, but they're not explored. It's got a double decker bus action sequence, but The Mummy Returns did it better. It's just not as much fun as it should be, and not meaningful enough to make up for that.DVD extras are lacking too.