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		List Price: $39.98		Label: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation Salesrank: 1023 Released: June 10, 2008
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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
David is a Jumper who can teleport himself anywhere in the world which creates a fun and exciting life. But things turn deadly when David finds himself pursued by a secret organization sworn to kill Jumpers. Forming an uneasy alliance with another Jumper he becomes a player in a war that has been raging for thousands of years.System Requirements:Running Time: 88 minutesFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/FUTURISTIC Rating: PG-13 UPC: 024543520917 Manufacturer No: 2252091

Description of Jumper [Blu-ray]:
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

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Jumper [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Anakin Skywalker Jumps ...And Falls
2008-09-04 - ***CONTAINS SPOILERS***

Anakin Skywalker battles the forces of evil by using the force and ...Oh. Wait a minute. Wrong movie. Sorry `bout that. Well not truly sorry; just a tad peeved at this flick and how horribly it went astray.

It is true, however, that the grim Hayden Christiansen of the new Star Wars fame is the main character (David Rice), and he has some unique abilities: he can jump through space/time at will, breakfasting on top of the Sphinx in Egypt, jumping back to his New York flat for luncheon pizza, then heading out to surf in Hawaii that same day ...or even hour if he wished it. He learns he has this power during his high school years (the young David is played by Max Thieriot - see The Astronaut Farmer) and nearly dies after falling through some thin river ice. He miraculously reappears in a local library, water and all, soaking book stacks. David was trying to retrieve a gift from the ice that he'd gotten for a girl he liked named Millie (Rachel Bilson), but he quickly learns that his jumping abilities make him something of a freak, and believes Millie would see him that way too. So he runs away and into the world.

Once out amongst the populace he learns how to steal, including jumping into bank vaults and taking as much money as he will. But this also gains him notice by a secret society of men known as Paladins (look up Palatine and you'll find interesting parallels). The head of this religious order is a man named Roland (Samuel L. Jackson, Snakes on a Plane), and his goal is to kill Jumpers ("No one but God should have these powers!")

So the battle between Jumper and Paladin is set and interesting shots and gadgets dot the screen. And that's about it...

The biggest flaw with the film is that there's no set-up to it. We don't really know why Jumpers can do what they do (Genetic/X-Men-like mutation? Alien DNA? Gods?). We also don't know who funds the Paladins with all of their travel, gadgets, and many, many members. I can guess that it might have been the Roman Catholic Church, but it's never even hinted at. If it was the church, then how did Roland get access to secret information, including bank vaults, police records, etc.?

With all of its story flaws, Jumpers does have some amazing CGI. Particularly, there was one scene where Roland is in the desert and a Jumper brings a double-decker London bus with him through a jump scar and tries to roll it on top of Roland. That was incredible and made my jaw drop.

But that was it. All style over any substance, Jumper was so weak along storylines that I didn't much care what happened to anyone in the film. The worst part is that the ending was obviously set up for a sequel. Maybe Mace Windu (Jackson's Star Wars character) could magically appear and wield 'The Force' to kill that off, too.

Effects, yes. Acting..... er..... ummm...
2008-09-02 - Light action movie featuring exotic locations and interesting modes of transportation seeks unsophisticated audience willing to overlook significant flaws such as acting and plot.

Kids OK.

Leaves you with questions
2008-09-02 - I'll be brief. This movie was entertaining to watch and it was fun.
But it left me wondering if it came from a book. The movie leaves the watcher with too many questions unanswered. I will buy the book to figure out the movie.

Just really good and entertaining
2008-08-31 - Everyone else gave reviews on this movie and seem to have covered it all. I am just going to say that my husband and I really enjoyed the movie and are happy to have it in our collection.

Jumper
2008-08-29 - this movie I looked forward to comming out onto video and I was not disapointed. The director hit a home run they waqs alot of action non stop. good suspence,good actors. It was futuristic, with alot of on your edge moments.I loved David Rice and Samuel L.Jackson.