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List Price: $34.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 10806
Released: June 10, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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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.
Description of Jumper (Two-Disc Special Edition):
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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Stills from Jumper Jumper (Two-Disc Special Edition) Reviews:
"Worth buying for my collection" 
2009-12-27 - The movie concept is entertaining, Hayden is a good actor but Rachel Bilson is a very bad actress in this one...but good movie over all.
Jumper
2009-12-26 - What an awesome movie! A great sci-fi that generates energy from the very beginning to the end. Overall this is a enjoyable movie.
Interesting Plot Marred by Miscast Hero 
2009-12-21 - Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed Hayden Christensen's performance in "Life as a House." And I felt he gave a good, strong effort in Star Wars trilogy. But I just feel he's not the appropriate actor for the lead role of David Rice, the jumper whom the movie revolves around. The guy discovers his jumping ability as a teenager, and runs away from home, leading to an easy life of crime. After setting up this background, the movie picks up on David eight years later.
If you pause and think about it, the character David Rice is an immature, small time crook who could basically go anywhere he wants to. It's okay for him to steal to finance a lavish lifestyle, because he has that one-in-a-billion god-given talent to do it. Life is easy for David Rice. And I just think Christensen plays the David Rice role a bit too straight and narrow. Rice is crafty, beguiling, the big easy, and Christensen does not role play Rice in that way. Christensen has the good looks of a leading man for this film, but not the sly, charming, and shifty manner needed for this role.
Perhaps Leonardo DiCaprio can take over for a Jumper II film?
Better then I expected
2009-11-02 - I rented and watched this movie off of Netflix recently, when I have asked people I know if they liked it most people either hadn't seen it or said it was just okay so I wasn't expecting much out of this. However I did actually enjoy this movie. It gets going pretty fast and keeps this pace through out the whole movie and at 88 minutes long its just the right length as to not get stale. Hayden Christensen plays David Rice who has the ability to Jump, Jumping in this movie is an ability some have that allows them to teleport to anywhere they have been before instantly. After learning of this ability David runs away from home and his alcoholic father to New York, where he robs a bank. David is living a wonderful life and all seems well until Samuel L. Jackson's character Roland Cox who is a member of a secret organization that hunts down and kills Jumpers known as The Paladins catches up with him. The rest of the movie is a globe trotting action extravagnaza as David must protect his childhood sweet heart from this vicious hunter, and teams up with an unstable Jumper Griffin played by jamie Bell.
So all in all this movie was worth the rental, and I would encourage anyone who has not seen it to check it out. Christensen does a much better job in this movie than his boring performance in StarWars(although his evil scenes in StarWars were good), and the special effects, locations, and action sequences were pretty cool as well. I give this movie a 3 out of 5.
To Join The Nerd Parade... 
2009-10-05 - The writers got this all wrong. His mother should have been a Jumper, and his father a remorseful, loving Paladin.
Idiots.
