Product Description 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: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/FUTURISTIC Rating: PG-13 UPC: 024543519652 Manufacturer No: 2251965 Product Details - Brand: JUMPER (DVD MOVIE)
- Released on: 2008-06-10
- Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
- Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Subtitled in: English, Spanish
- Dubbed in: French, Spanish
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
- Running time: 88 minutes
Editorial Reviews Amazon.com
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 Customer Reviews IT'S JUST A JUMP TO THE LEFT
Science fiction films have always been fan favorites but the pariah of critics round the world. Unless it was some artistic endeavor that happened to step into the world of sci fi, it was scoffed at. That's okay though. While critics dismiss these films of fancy, fans follow them non stop. Such may be the case with this week's release, JUMPER.
Hayden Christensen stars as David Rice, a young man who comes from a dysfunctional home where mom took off when he was 5 and dad has clung more to the bottle than David. As he hits teen years, David discovers accidentally that he has a strange ability. David can transport himself from one location to another with the speed of thought.
Leaving home, David does what any normal male teen would do. He sets himself up in a cheap hotel and transports himself into a bank vault where he takes money that no one notices until months later. No security breach, no alarms, just missing money. The film progresses from there to David grown into a young man, still transporting from locale to locale, have lunch on the head of the Sphinx, appearing immediately in Paris or stepping out to shop in New York only to hit the stores in London. With the speed of thought, David appears.
All seems fine until someone appears in David's apartment. That someone is Roland (Samuel L. Jackson) who has shown up to take David down and has the ability (with the help of an electronically charged weapon). With a bit of luck and ingenuity, David escapes and returns to his boyhood home.
Once there, David decides to look up the love of his life, the girl who was there when this power first manifested and who hasn't seen him since believing he died, drowned when he was young. Millie (Rachel Bilson) has grown, works in a local bar and still captures David's heart. Taking a chance, he convinces Millie to leave with him to see Rome, a location she's always dreamed of seeing.
It is in Rome that David encounters Griffin (Jamie Bell), another "jumper" who enlightens David. It seems that Roland is the head of an organization called Paladins that have tracked down and killed "jumpers" from the beginning of time. Their goal is simple to exterminate.
Realizing he has put Millie in danger, David tries to escape Roland and his cohorts. But the chances of Millie and David making it out safely are slim to none, even with the reluctant aid of Griffin.
A final showdown, the appearance of David's mother and more highlight this action packed sci fi tale that offers hot locals, fantastic effects, great looking shots and a plausible story that features good guys and bad on the move. The film is not LAWRENCE OF ARABIA but then it never sets out to be that.
Lost in the release schedules of blockbuster films, JUMPER is a solid film that most renters will enjoy. So jump into your local video store and give this one a chance. You'll be glad you did.
Worst MOVIE ever!
I bought it the day it came out on BooRay...This movie Sucks so much, it's boring and a waste of time/money! Fun enough Fun enough for a mindless evening on the couch. The bad guys are, of course, religious ("only God should have that power"), so minus one star for tired cliches based on a popular but uninformed outlook on reality*.
The jumping sequences are interesting, and the bad guys, the Paladins, have some interesting technology for their job. Paladins were responsible, we are told, for the Inquisition and witch hunts ...
One wonders how the Paladins did their job before they had this tech, because it would seem to be ... not at all, it being impossible to follow jumpers easily. So that doesn't make much sense. But it's still fun to watch. The protagonist's dad looks like a jerk at first, and perhaps he was, but you feel for him later.
There is another part of the story that doesn't make much sense, but it's a spoiler, regarding another family relationship.
*(A problem which can, fortunately, be remedied: read Dinesh D'Souza's "What's So Great About Christianity").
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Jumper (Single-Disc Edition)
