Movie reviews: Jumper 18 Articles

by Donald Lind

"Unrealized Potential"

One could only imagine how the production staff meeting for the creative minds behind Fox's "Jumper" went. Probably something like this:

Person Number One: "Dude, I just read this awesome novel about a guy

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by Spencer Hawken

I'm not having a very good time of it lately; it seems that wherever I look I'm confronted by a movie that has either Jamie Bell or Hayden Christensen in it. Imagine my annoyance then on having to see the movie Jumper, a film

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by Phillip Chambley

This film is based on a Novel written by Stephen Gould in 1992. Although, I personally believe the movie itself was a copy of the sci-fi channels mini-series thriller "The Lost Room" Meaning that people could use a key to open

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by Kuan Hur Tan

The movie name itself is very interesting and made me think what kind of story it will produce. As I was a computer hardware and software support before, the first connection to the word jumper is the motherboard jumper. Alright,

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by James Green

Jumper is an action packed film starring Hayden Christensen (Star Wars), Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot), Samuel L. Jakson (Star Wars, Snakes on a Plane) to name but a few. The film was directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity,

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by Perry Cox

David Rice falls through some ice and starts to drown. Moments later he finds himself in the local library wet, but apparently unscathed. After some experimentation David discovers he is a "Jumper", one of just a few with a genetic

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by Oliver Pfeiffer

Its official: Hayden Christensen has about as much screen presence and charisma as a plank of plywood. If you thought his feeble and burrowed groans in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith were the unfortunate result

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by Aaron Carr

Stars: 1/2 out of 4

Doug Liman's novel-based movie, "Jumper," is so unbelievably bad on so many different levels that I don't even know where to begin. When a movie manages to have an astronomical number of flaws, each blemish

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by Kevin Powers

Based on the novel by Steven Gould it might appear that the new science fiction adventure film JUMPER would have something going for it but the pedestrian screenplay by David S. Goyer, Jim Uhis, and Simon Kinberg feels as if

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by Lord Byron

Ever since actor Hayden Christensen's debut in George Lucas's 2002 film ''Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones,'' critics and viewers have deemed Christensen to be one the worst actors of our generation. It's unfair to

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by Chloe Spooner

Jumper is about a young man named David Rice who in his teenage years discovers that he seems to have some sort of ability which allows him to teleport wherever and whenever he wants to. As an adult, he has control of this power

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by Mitchell Dean

aka "the Entertaining Brain"

Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 88 minutes
Directed by: Doug Liman
Written by: David S Goyer, Jim Uhls
Cast: Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Diane Lane, Samuel L Jackson
Opens: February 15, 2008

Rating:

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by yackity yack

Movie review of Jumper which was released in February 2008.

I liked this movie but felt disappointed. But then, this is the type of movie that mushrooms. It isn't what it seems. This is a movie where both the bad guy and the hero

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by Isabel Whitaker

Jumper It's About the Execution.

I was so excited to see the movie Jumper this weekend. I even stayed up late on Sunday to go out with my friends even though I had to work on Monday and they didn't. However, I should've just gone

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by Stan Dyer

This movie definitely appeals to the High School age to young adult crowd. It has young actors playing young people with big dreams, lofty ambitions, and that youthful sense of invincibility that all can identify with. It also

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by Stephen Carter

'Jumper' (2008) is a prolonged chase scene movie that, alas, lacks a credible chase. The
'jumping' (teleportation) from place to place does not carry and build the story's desired rising tension because the pursuit does not escalate.

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