Jumper (2008)
Average Rating: 4/10
Reviews Counted: 163
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 137
Featuring uninvolving characters and loose narrative, Jumper is an erratic action pic with little coherence and lackluster special effects.
Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 39
Featuring uninvolving characters and loose narrative, Jumper is an erratic action pic with little coherence and lackluster special effects.
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Following up his blockbuster action hit Mr. and Mrs. Smith, director Doug Liman turns to an entirely new genre -- sci-fi -- for this tale of an underground world of teleporters. Based on the novel by Steven Gould, Jumper concerns David (Hayden Christensen), a young man who quite literally wills himself away from his grim family life by teleporting to another place with the power of his mind. Years later, David is using his powers to raid bank vaults, seduce girls in London, lunch on the
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Cast
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Hayden Christensen
David -
Jamie Bell
Griffin -
Samuel L. Jackson
Roland -
Rachel Bilson
Millie -
Diane Lane
Mary -
Michael Rooker
William -
Annasophia Robb
Young Millie -
Jesse James
Young Mark -
Tom Hulce
Mr. Bowker -
Kristen Stewart
Sophie -
Teddy Dunn
Mark Kobold -
Barbara Garrick
Ellen -
Michael Winther
Day Bank Manager -
Massimiliano Pazzaglia
Italian Desk Cop -
Shawn Roberts
English Bartender -
Nathalie Cox
English Beauty -
Meredith Henderson
Fiona -
Damir Andrei
Psychologist -
Tony Nappo
NYPD Detective -
George King
Owner of Millie's Old H... -
Clark Beasley Jr.
Bank Guard -
Simona Lisi
Italian Woman -
Matteo Carlomagno
Italian Detective -
Fabrizio Bucci
Italian Police Officer ... -
Giorgio Santangelo
Italian Police Officer ... -
Marcello Santoni
Italian Cabbie 1 -
Franco Salvatore Di Stefa...
Italian Cabbie 2 -
Brad Borbridge
Coffee Shop Manager -
Angelo Lopez
Doorman -
Roberto Antonelli
Bellhop -
Veronica Visentin
Itialian Ticket Agent -
Christian Pikes
Toby -
George Ghali
Landlord -
Ryny Gyto Ouk
Jungle Jumper -
Frantisek Jícha
Kid in Detroit Airport -
Robin Zenker
Kid in Detroit Airport -
Masahiro Kishibata
Angry Japanese Cook -
Sumiko Yamada
Japanese Chef's Wife -
Tamaki Mihara
Japanese Chef's Daughte... -
Mansaku Ikeuchi
Japanese Scientist -
Rolando Alvarez Giacoman
Mexican Truck Driver -
Adam Chuckryk
London Pub Patron -
Jordan Gatto
Hoolihan's Bar Patron -
Nicholas Kusiba
Hoolihan's Bar Patron -
Ariel Lukane
Hoolihan's Bar Patron -
Vanessa Reid
Hoolihan's Bar Patron -
Stephen Whitehead
Hoolihan's Bar Patron -
Mahmud Watts
Surfer -
Braden Munafo
Surfer -
Tamara Buchwald
Surfer -
Maia Smith
Surfer -
Valentino Visentini
Police Officer -
John Baker
Lamplighter Clerk -
Josie Lau
Hospital Aid
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The disappointments and the inexplicable plot turns kept mounting until I finally surrendered and just admitted it: This was just a goodlooking clunker.
One day, I feel sure, the rich mantle of charisma will descend upon [Hayden Christensen], but Jumper is not that occasion.
So freakin' awful.
Jumper, based on the novel by Steven Gould, re-defines -- downward -- the notion of dreadful. It does so by dispensing with everything a movie needs for a shot at being merely awful.
The best stuff in Jumper comes early, while the movie is still busy explaining its scenario. It's only when all the pieces are in place and the story actually kicks in that things start to fall apart, and quickly.
Jumper has so many loose ends that it almost cries out for a sequel. This, of course, is intentional. I would say the filmmakers are being a tad optimistic.
Light entertainment is all about playing to an audience's fantasy. There have been quite a few well-crafted and entertaining films that have started the same way and gotten away with it, out of sheer creativity. Jumper is not one of those films.
A better filmmaker would have given the material some kind of vertiginous rhythm, yet Liman just plods humorlessly, flavorlessly.
Ignore the previews. Unless there was a drastic change of storyline in the editing room at the last minute, the final cut is a lot more interesting than originally advertised.
Jumper is a popcorn movie, but without salt or butter. Too many of the kernels remain unpopped. It's like the Saturday matinees of yore. But by the time you've crossed the lobby after seeing Jumper, you've forgotten it.
An elegantly idiotic sci-fi thriller that initially feels as though it might have derived from Philip K Dick -- but lacks the master's lysergic idiosyncracy.
Jumper is almost in too much of a hurry at times and logic and cohesion suffer as a consequence.
Director Liman is a major talent. He deserves better material to mold.
The movie isn't terrible and I certainly liked the superhero aspect of it, but the romance doesn't work and it has a rushed, sloppy feel throughout.
Action-heavy sci-fi tale has uninspiring hero.
Sam relishes doing super-mean and ready to rumble, while Hayden jaunts around the planet sightseeing, bank robbing and hitting on women.
Audience Reviews for Jumper
Super Reviewer
Liman's take on a young man with a certain supernatural abilities is a genuinely interesting take on a superhero myth and it's themes. Like he did with his fantastic The Bourne Identity, Liman also turns his main character here into sort of an anti-hero. This is a flawed young man who has lost his moral while using his powers to only live rich and selfish life. David, played here by Max Theriot and Hayden Christensen, is very interesting as an character. Beneath his surface is a emotionally very wounded and shy boy who has been always a bit loner and bullied.
One of Liman's greatest gifts as a filmmaker has been always his ablity to create such an interesting charaters and David is no different when it comes to complex characters. Credit must also be given to Jamie Bell's Griffin who is an complete opposite from David with his lifestyle and attitude. These characters and their scenes give this film intreresting tension and also serves an fantastic dialogue for these young actors to work with. There are interesting sidecharacters here too and their involvement to the story is crucially important. Actors like Rachel Bilson, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane and Michael Rooker all do wonders with limited screentime and ultimately succeeds in creating enough depth to their characters for us to care about their fate. In Liman's films there is very rarely pointless or hollow characters or even remotely average perfromances. He is genius with his actors and pulls the best out of them.
Once again Liman handles his material with enormous style and proves that he is also by far one of the most technically gifted directors around right now. He begun his career with more independent productions like Swingres and Go, but since then he has moved into bigger productions like The Bourne Identity, Jumper or most recently his political masterpiece Fair Game. In my books Liman is one of the greatest director alive and i love the way how he is still capable of mixing his more artistically impressive aesthetics into a bigger studio productions like Jumper or The Bourne Identity. This film might sound like a typical superhero story on a paprer but it is far from it. Jumper is emotionally gripping and morally complex character study. It is also a heart pounding adventure film that stands as a greatest possible example of a film of it's kind.
It would be a crime not to mention some of the fantastic technical feats of this film. First of all, along with with cinematographer Barry Peterson, Doug Liman has created one of the best looking films ever made. Liman has often worked as a cinematographer and cameraoperator in many of his own films and he seems to be very precise about the images and style he uses. His trademark handheld urgency can be seen once again here and it brings a certain fresh look into a thrilling action scenes. John Powell has also composed one of his greatest, or maybe even the greatest, scores into this film. Powell's music succeeds in being a mix of playful elements, more emotional themes and some tense moments with massive orchestral sequences thrown in it. This is quite possibly his finest moment as a composer so far and he has done many great scores during his career as a film composer. Credit also goes for Weta's fantastic special effects that at times even outdoes best work by legendary Industrial, Light and Magic studio and their work for the director as great as Steven Spielberg.
Surprisingly many viewers and critics has complained that there are too many loose ends and that it all feels like a set up for something bigger. What ever the intentions of Liman or the producers are, Jumper is a perfect example that great stories do not always need a closure or a clean tidy ending. If it is going to be first part of a bigger storyline then this is a one brilliant game opener as a film and i am very interested to see where this story is going next, but it also works perfectly on it own. And to be honest i myself am very pleased with this film just the way as it is. There is no possible way to make this kind of film any better.
Doug Liman is a kind of director genius who knows exactly how to add more artistic touches into big films. His films has always been wonderful marriages between art and entertainment. There are only few superhero films made in last two decades that has truly impressed me and Jumper is easily the best of them all. This is a masterpiece and a one impressive rollercoaster ride as a film. Fasten your seatbelts and see this film!
Super Reviewer
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- David: So what do you think?
- Millie: I think there's something you're not telling me.
- David: What do you mean?
- Millie: This room, first class.
- David: What about it?
- Millie: Usually in my life when things seem too good to be true it's because they are.
- David: I told you I'm in.
- Millie: Banking? See I know that you flunked algebra. David if you don't want to tell me everything that's fine. Just don't lie to me.
- David: I'm not lying to you.
- Millie: No? Good.
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- Millie: Hey you okay?
- David: Yeah.
- Millie: You sure?
- David: Yeah I am.
- Millie: Good because I'm freezing, can we please go someplace warm?
- David: Where do you want to go?
- Millie: Surprise me.
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- David: Thank you very much! Next showing will be at six o'clock. Don't forget to tip your usher.
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- Griffin: You can't just keep following me.
- David: Actually, I'm the only one who *can* keep following you.
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