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5 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
 Jumping Jehosivats!, 2008-03-08
It cracks us up how much money this film made, but yet most reviews are neagative.
What movie did these bozos go see?
What we saw was a rollercoaster ride of a movie that felt fresh and exciting. C'mon, man! Sam Jackson, baby! He was cool as the paladin leader with Anakin Skywalker as the jumper. (We actually liked the european bad boy jumper somewhat better! Good actor.)
JUMPER had loads of mystery and action/adventure excitement - as well as a huge surprising ending - that will leave you wanting more. Liman yet again proves he is a top-notch director. We loved his original Bourne movie. The first beat the other two by leaps and bounds! (The last one was a total bore fest!)
And then, with Mr. and Mrs. Smith he took the comedy/action genre and sent it through the stratosphere! Although Jumper isn't as great as that last film, it is still WAY better than most junk coming out these days, all geared towards teens.
Sure Jumper leaves open questions at th end. There are several books out in this series, and Hollywood loves a sequel. And we want one!
And we'll bet every reviewer who gave this movie bad marks would go see it too! One way or another.
Sure the movie had its problems, but director Doug Liman handles the movie in a quick pacing with loads of beautiful special effects, great action sequences that were very original and huge in scope. Very refreshing. Also, if you want to see some of the most impressive sights in the world, Jumper takes you there!
Excellent movie, despite its few quirks. We'll buy the DVD, and hope to see an even bigger and better sequel in the future.
With all the money this film made, that should not be a problem.
15 of 16 customers found the following review helpful:
Jumper, Worth Watching for Science Fiction Fans, Give it a Try!, 2008-03-08
Jumper [Theatrical Release]
"Jumper" is a good movie that will appeal to science fiction lovers, comic book junkies and anybody who's ever wanted to travel the world without blowing their bank account. The story is simple, the special effects and international sets are amazing, and the acting is ... well you can't have anything. The young actors here are given very few lines to work with and might not meet the high standards of those who want every movie, including an action fantasy movie, to have award worthy acting.
Many people will have to wonder what I wondered when I first read the reviews here: did I see the same movie as everybody else? Why has this movie been panned by so many people?
Fans of the original novel tend to be against this movie because it deviates from the original story and offers a much more film-friendly short version. Jumper: A Novel (Jumper) There was a "prequel" story written to transition fans to this story, and you can check out those reviews to see their reactions. Jumper: Jumpscars - The Official Prequel to the Film (Jumper)
I appreciate great acting, but I didn't expect Indiana Jones to win for best actor. I likewise didn't expect too much from this acting-wise. Hayden Christensen may not the most expressive actor, but the kid is young! Be realistic! Actually, Bilson's portrayal as Millie was much less impressive, an overly flirty one-dimensional take. And Samuel L. Jackson was almost getting paid twice for the role he played in "Unbreakable," except here his character has the weapons and the strength to really fight the heroes.
Many people also seem to want more back-story and explainations for the science behind his ability to teleport. Yet don't the backstories in most movies like this make them even less believable? How often in life do people stop in the middle of something to explain how and why everything is happening? I was glad that they didn't waste time trying to explain a work of imagination. This is a science fiction concept, nothing more.
This movie, when viewed as just a movie, is great entertainment and very fun to watch. Coming into this just as a movie-goer with no preconceived notions, I loved it. I could suspend disbelief because I know how to let my imagination go when it comes to science fiction.
Essentially, Hayden Christensen plays a young kid who is bullied at school and harassed by an alcoholic father. He discovers his ability to teleport, and soon is making a new life for himself teleporting all over the world. He soon discovers he's not the only "Jumper" out there, and that a group of paladins are determined to find and kill jumpers. He returns to his hometown to find his high school crush, and has to deal with telling her his secret ability.
The pacing was really well done. This movie moves along very quickly. It may leave a lot of unanswered questions but it also never leaves you dragging. The score is well done, but there could have been more songs to create a real soundtrack. They make up for it by moving from location to location with amazing cinematography.
And let me tell you, the sets are amazing! The camera work on top of Big Ben, at the Sphinx, on the Pyramids, and on and on, it was all amazing. For those wide shots alone it's worth seeing in the theatres. I was so jealous this guy could go wherever he wanted, from Europe to Africa to Asia. I can't wait for the DVD to find out which locations were shot on set and which were created via CGI or some other means.
Other special effects are impressive as well, as we see the "residue" of the jumper's as they teleport. The paladins also have their own tools which are perhaps not as cool. There's also an amazing couple of fight scenes that are peppered in.
The movie does end very quickly, and is clearly based on a plot designed for sequels. That leaves the story with a lot of loose ends. Still, I for one would gladly subject myself to a sequel, even look forward to one.
If you want realism, going to see a fantasy thriller isn't going to give it to you. If you want fun and love science fiction or comics, this movie is fun to watch.
Enjoy!
How'd You Do That!, 2008-03-05
The Jumper first learned of his special skills in Ann Arbor, Michigan, when he fell through the ice on a river and woke up in the library (what a place to choose!). Like Forrest Gump learned to run fast to get away from bullies, he was different from ordinary, David, who learned that he could "transport" to any place on earth when his physical body was in danger. The actor looked like a duplicate of James Dean in 1957. I liked his mode of transportation, the city bus.
It was later on down the road, ten years or so, that he met his mother, a lovely lady he had not seen in twenty years, only to discover that she too is a jumper. They are chosen people, like the gods of medieval times, born with survival skills ordinary beings would never experience.
The actor looked like a cross between James Dean (1957) and Ted Hall. It was fun to see him "jump" to the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago (I rode the fast elevator to please my son.) and then land on the beaches of Dubai which now has buildings taller than even ours. More fun was in Rome as he and his lady love roam the ruins of the Colluseum where CS had hoped to emulate. Maybe someday.
5 of 12 customers found the following review helpful:
 Don't Jump To The Theatre For This One, 2008-03-01
At the beginning of Jumper, I felt it had a bit of a promise. I always enjoy the beginnings of movies that start like "Jumper" did. A young David Rice (Max Thieriot) is seen trying to give a snowglobe to a young Millie (AnnaSophia Robb) in front of their high school in the snow.
But, a bully, Mark (Jesse James), takes the snowglobe from Robb, and then eventually chucks it into the frozen, snow-covered lake nearby. Thieriot, in an attempt to save his wannabe relationship with Robb's character, goes out onto the lake to retrieve the snowglobe. But he falls through the ice, and begins to inexplicably sink down, as if pulled by an invisible force. That's when the jumping starts.
My first question was how this ability to teleport came to be. My friend said it would be explained near the end of the movie. I expected to get some hints throughout the coarse of the movie.
But I can't even explain to you what the plot of "Jumper" is really. The movie is really only a film with different parts thrown into there somehow. There is really no escalading plot. It's really about Christensen teleporting from here to there, trying to run away from Jamie Bell, another Jumper and Samuel L. Jackson, a person who vows to kill all Jumpers left on earth.
I don't usually fall asleep in movies, but I actually had to tell my friend to wake me when the movie ended. The film was just that ridiculous. And it's a shame, because the cast was promising: Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane and Jamie Bell. But I was disappointed that any of these actors would sign up for this film.
"Jumper" may sound like a good film, but there is no plot, no character development and the acting was so-so. I was all-around disappointed with this movie, but I give it two thumbs up for putting me to sleep! Way to go, "Jumper!"
Enjoyable if Uneven Thriller, 2008-03-01
I have not read the book "Jumper" so perhaps some of the nasty reviews of this movie are by disgruntled fans. Personally I enjoyed the movie well enough. I never expect much from a Doug Liman movie except kinetic action and snappy one-liners. As a director he could care less about "the boring stuff" of relationships except as they serve the action, and this movie is no exception, but visually there are some real treats--David standing in the face of "Big Ben", Griffin jumping a double-decker bus-- and I disagree with the usual phalanx of Hayden Christensen bashers that his performance is wooden. Anyone who has seen "Life As A House" or "Higher Ground" knows what a fine actor Christensen is, and he has a tough challenge here. His character, David Rice, is an immature loner passing as a sophisticated grown-up. He is most pointedly NOT a hero, so H.C. has to play him as confused and out of his depth, rather than dominating and in charge. As David finds himself in the middle of a war he never dreamed existed you can see him go through various phases of terror, panic, and desperation as he seeks Griffin's help. If you watch H.C.'s performance closely there's a lot going on, and I imagine the plan was to have David grow up more in sequels to come. The David character is great paired with Jamie Bell's Griffin, the one a naive loner, the other an emotionally scarred warrior.
The romance part of the movie was perfunctory, quickly dispensed of for the sake of the action. Twitchy hand-held camera work did not add to any sense of romance between the characters and the best scene between them is when David jumps Millie to the Coliseum in Rome. As she looks around her eyes well with joy at finally seeing it, but this potentially tender moment is just left there to die so we can get back to the action.
And there are plot holes, too many to count, no doubt due to too much meddling in by various scriptwriters and Fox executives. For example, much is made about David's mother abandoning him when he was five, but at the putative end of the movie, he casually pops by and visits her. Weird.
Overall, I'd say there's a fun little adventure movie waiting to be re-cut out for DVD of this untidy movie, and let's hope this time the director lets the characters develop and fills in some of the plot holes. If so I'd be happy to see a sequel, because I liked the concept and the characters enough to give it a second chance.
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