| Jumper [Blu-ray] | ![Jumper [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51t4ZayBamL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Doug Liman
Actors: Damir Andrei, Barbara Garrick, Tom Hulce, Samuel L. Jackson, Jesse James
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (94 reviews)
Sales Rank: 124
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language), Cantonese (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Running Time: 88 minutes
Number Of Items: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 2252091
UPC: 024543520917
EAN: 0024543520917
ASIN: B001794FOK
Release Date: June 10, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Theatrical Release Date: February 14, 2008
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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: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/FUTURISTIC Rating: PG-13 UPC: 024543520917 Manufacturer No: 2252091
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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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 An interesting idea, but without anyone to cheer for. July 3, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I gave this movie an extra star because it is set in Ann Arbor (where I live) and has some footage of Huron High School and the Gallup Park around the Huron River. Yeah, I know it is cheap of me, but I like seeing my home town on the screen.
The movie is about David Rice and his ability to teleport (jump) to anywhere in the world (but not through time). He first becomes of this ability when, as a teenager, he falls through some ice on the river and is carried downstream with no way out through the ice. As he learns to master this ability he engages of a variety of activities that stem from his troubled personality. Max Thieriot does a terrific job as the bullied teenager and Hayden Christensen carries the movie as you young adult version of David.
Unfortunately for David, he isn't the only jumper and there is an organization of crazed folks who deem themselves authorized to find and kill any jumper they find. They have all kinds of high tech tools to locate, contain, and a low tech knife to gut them. These folks call themselves Paladins. They have, according to the story, existed as long as there have been jumpers, but I wonder how they contained them without their gadgets?
For me, the handling of the Paladins is a real weakness in the movie. We don't know their true motivation, their financing, or why they are so devoted to what they do. They are just there and are just the enemy of jumpers. Not really enough. However, Samuel L. Jackson does a fine job Roland, the head Paladin.
The other problem with the story is that David is not a sympathetic character. Of course, Hayden Christensen has already played one of those and handles this quite well. I just didn't feel there was anyone in the movie to cheer for. We side with David because the story tells us to, but we don't really like him or identify with him. David's love object, Millie (because he really doesn't know her as a person, just as an idea he projected from himself - as most teenagers do) is the nicest person in the film, but never gets to become a full person here.
The film has made more than $200 million dollars worldwide so we will probably get a sequel of some kind. I hope they flesh out the people rather than leaving them as two-dimensional figures. But maybe that is enough for their target audience.
The movie takes us to lots of cities all over the world and that is a part of the fun. But most of the time I wondered why the jumps went so far afield. I know that some of it was an emotional response to a situation, but sometimes the jump could have been down the block for a similar effect to the problem at hand. Maybe I am being too fussy.
Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI
Jumpers, Summer fun July 2, 2008
During the Summer I lighten up on movies since I know some of them won't win Academy Awards. That's because they are focused towards action and fun which the Academy usually frowns upon. With the exception of "Lord of the Rings" how often have you seen them give it to fun movies? Afterall "Star Wars" or "Anger Management" certainly weren't about to get one. So don't expect "Jumpers" to be anything more than it is, a fun action movie. Now I grant you I have a couple questions. Did his father survive? Who funded the Paladins? Where they really working for NSA? Why did his mother have a kid if jumping is genetic? If Paladins can jump, aren't they a jumper too? Okay I had more than a couple questions not being answered, but overall I liked the ride.
Some will say robbing banks or Paladins killing innocent people is setting a bad precedent for kids to watch. I agree. Have you thrown out your families "Grand Theft Auto IV" yet? Yeah right, so let's not be so judgemental on this movie. The main character is none other than Hayden Christensen of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader fame. He does a decent job playing the part of a Jumper. Samuel Jackson unfortunately doesn't really get much opportunity to show his ability acting as one of the bloodthirsty Paladins. Worse yet, we barely see the lovely and talented Diane Lane.
The movie starts us with a boy saving his own life, by jumping to a library he knew as a child, when he falls in a icy lake. As the story evolves we find out Jumpers typically start jumping at age five. For some unknown reason we find that Paladins since medieval times have killed jumpers. Sorry this is one premise I couldn't accept. Paladins have always been portrayed as good and guarding religious people from harm. Convincing me this means they would kill people for jumping into a bank and robbing it is stretching it thin. They would have been better off to just make the government in pursuit of them, specifically Homeland Security or NSA. Even then it would need to be if captured a Jumper would face imprisonment not death if they were guilty of lesser than capital crimes. Now that I got that out of my system, I still like the movie for the most part. The story wasn't bad, the acting decent, and the effects great. Not a bad Summer movie at all. Good quality DVD with decent replayability.
Overhyped July 2, 2008
With all the talk I heard about this DVD, it seems that it might just be fans of Anikin Skywalker's just loving him being in another movie that I did not feel was as good as the hype being said about it.
Jumper is about a boy who one day discovers he can warp/teleport. He decides to use this power to take money from a few bank vaults and live a life of luxury. However his plan backfires when he finds out that he is not the only person who can do this trick. They are called Jumpers, and can warp to wherever they want to. He could be in New York city one minute and then warp straight to the Sphinx in Egypt.
While discovering he is not alone, he also finds out there are (some name for it) a group of people who want to kill them for having this ability to jump wherever they want to. The plot pretty much goes around him trying to stay alive while protecting his girlfriend and learning to be a jumper.
It sounds pretty cool when you hear the plot story, but I feel this movie could have been so much better then it is. I really did not like the idea that he just figures out he can do this, like it's genetics and he accidentally discovers he can warp. I know this is just a movie for entertainment, but even in a non fiction world, you want some sort of explanation to what causes this. I'd have bought into a magic ring, or an ancient crystal that gives them these powers, but to just have him figure it out like he was born with it just did not feel like it was the right way to give him these powers.
Also, they should have explored the fun you could have with such powers. It seems like he just decides to rob bank vaults, and uses it to warp to a few places... if you had that kind of power, the first thing that comes to mind is probably not rob a bank vault, you'd probably be testing it to see what you can do, and how much of it. There is plenty of things they could have tried to make it seem like someone who really did have this power and could do anything, there where so many possibilities they could have explored.
The battles between the jumpers and whatever they where did not seem to be thought out as well as it should. There is no explanation as to why jumpers are being killed, apart from jealousy from a religious type of hunter group.
So many possibilities where unexplored, and so many reasons and "whys"
left unanswered.
Many people are saying this is an original concept. No it's not. This seems like they have taken ideas from "Click" and "TimeCop" and mixed it with a lot of concepts you see from b-grade horror movies and wrapped it up in a normal human being who is not from hell or has a thirst for blood.
It's just usually you see these warp things in demons, or evil, aliens or angels or gods or something, so it's not an original concept, just the idea to put it into someone normal, but far from original, as there have been movies made where a normal person can do this kind of thing.
Overall I think they could have done a much better job with this story wise. It came off feeling pretty average and so many questions left unanswered. And if that is a set up for a sequel, then this series has already failed for doing it on purpose before they know if the movie was a success or not... people aren't as stupid as the movie companies want them to be.
the extras seemed pretty boring. So I expect there holding back a few months before the release a special directors cut edition, which will fail the market as people either refuse to buy it, or copy it or download it... and the movie companies wonder why piracy is running rampart these days.
Overall, fans of Anikin will flock over this and praise it, no matter what he is in. but to the average viewer, this is a pretty average movie that could have been done so much better if it focused more on entertainment then the FX of the movie.
2 and half stars from me.
Exciting, New Concept July 1, 2008
it's a good movie, worth watching at least once.. Will keep you excited, plus it includes well known actors/actresses.
Great visual effects, seems realistic, and somehow makes you want to visit the places in the movie.
 Something lost from book to movie June 29, 2008
This was lame!
Something lost from book to movie. I never read the book but watching the movie alone seemed like something was missing.
On the "extra stuff" on the DVD they admit that the plan to make a 3 part movie and the author of the book admits that it is far from the original idea of the book.
The special effects are great but the plot is unfinished and leaves you saying "WHAT? That's the ending!"
Not worth the money.
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