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Jumper [Blu-ray] [2008]
from 20th Century Fox
starring Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Hayden Christensen, Diane Lane
directed by Doug Liman

Features:

• Widescreen

Editorial Review:

Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson

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

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• The first of three planned movies
  Running David (Max Thieriot) loves little Millie (AnnaSophia Robb) with a love that couldn't die. He couldn't swim the raging river; but he leaned how to jump. What would you do if you found the ability to transport? Yep the first plan was to exacta all not nasty old paper in the local bank. Where do we go from here? For one thing it irks some people including fanatic "jumper hunter" Roland (Samuel L. Jackson.) We find new friends and enemies no known in the book. Then we have David's nagging question... more info

• Entertaining if empty
  It's a good, fun action movie with 2007's best special effect gimmick. Christiansen makes some amends for Star Wars here, but it's Jamie Bell who steals the show.

• Movie: 2.75~3.75/5 Picture Quality: 4~4.75/5 Sound Quality: 4~4.5/5 Extras: 3.5/5
  Version: U.S.A / Region-A
  Film Rating: PG-13
  Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  Running time: 1:28:29
  Video Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
  Movie size: 27,016,445,952
  Disc size: 43,779,808,800 (BD-50)
  Average Video Bit Rate: 32.16 Mbps
  Audio:
  # English DTS-Master Audio 5.1 Surround
  # Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
  # French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
  Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean
  #Commentary by director Doug Liman, producer... more info

• Fantastic fun
  
  I don't care what anyone says about this movie...it's nothing if not entertaining. The special effects are great and it certainly has the cool factor. OK, so there's the odd hole in the plot...but so long as you can overlook that then you should enjoy the movie. It's obvious there's going to be a sequel...

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