Jumper: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 55 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 160 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

42

There's no real behavior, just endless movement brought off with empty crackerjack skill.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Manohla Dargis New York Times (Top Critic)

30

Jumper is a barely coherent genre mishmash about a guy who transports himself across the globe at will.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Andrew Pulver Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

An elegantly idiotic sci-fi thriller that initially feels as though it might have derived from Philip K Dick -- but lacks the master's lysergic idiosyncracy.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

50

Short on imagination and anchored by a wan hero, Jumper is a flight of fancy that never fully takes off.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Ann Hornaday Washington Post (Top Critic)

It's that rare genre picture targeted to teens and young adults that suffers from underkill.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

50

This movie should be playing on the CW between episodes of Reaper and One Tree Hill.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Jack Mathews New York Daily News (Top Critic)

38

Given its uninvolving story, uninteresting characters and the presence of half-man/half-tree Hayden Christensen, the movie is wholly dependent on special effects, which I rate only so-so.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal (Top Critic)

Jumper, based on the novel by Steven Gould, re-defines -- downward -- the notion of dreadful. It does so by dispensing with everything a movie needs for a shot at being merely awful.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Amy Biancolli Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

38

It's a paradox, but science fiction has to make sense: It can rest on the world's most outlandish premise, but only if its internal logic holds up to scrutiny. And Jumper can't make that leap.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Lisa Kennedy Denver Post (Top Critic)

50

Jumper skips emotional traction (or humor) in what feels like a rush to the inevitable sequel or two.
Full Review » 4 years ago
David Edelstein New York Magazine (Top Critic)

I can't see people lining up for a sequel -- unless Samuel Jackson's hair grows out and marches on Tokyo.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Anthony Lane New Yorker (Top Critic)

One day, I feel sure, the rich mantle of charisma will descend upon [Hayden Christensen], but Jumper is not that occasion.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Jim Emerson Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

38

A movie so silly you may find yourself giggling helplessly even as you wish you could magically transport yourself almost anywhere else in the world but where you are, in front of the screen showing it.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

38

Is there something innately vexing about a story whose premise opens the door so wide, to so many geographical possibilities? Jumper, the film, goes everywhere and nowhere.
Full Review » 4 years ago
J. R. Jones Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

Like so many other CGI behemoths, this dull action fantasy ultimately squashes rather than inspires one's sense of wonder.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

50

Adapted from Steven Gould's young-adult novel, Liman's tale of the bookish high-schooler with unusual powers isn't a shot of adrenaline, it's an OD.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

75

It's positioned as the first installment of a trilogy and, if Christensen follows through on the character's promise of greater charisma and depth, I'll willingly line up for the next two.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

34

A herky-jerky mess of a movie, Jumper leaps about so erratically you get the feeling bent pogo sticks were employed in the editing room.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Bill Goodykoontz Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

50

Jumper strains credulity, even for a fantasy-action film; its lead character isn't particularly likable; and Samuel L. Jackson sports funny hair.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

A piece of idiotic sci-fi piffle called Jumper looks like $90 billion wasted on 90 minutes of popcorn junk. Even the butter is phony.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Brian Lowry Variety (Top Critic)

Slick but extremely slim.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

25

Doug Liman's Jumper takes an intriguing premise -- a guy who can teleport himself anywhere, anytime -- and turns it into a totally ridiculous and incoherent sci-fi adventure.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

40

Technical tricks can't hide a tired time-travel story dressed down with an almost humorless script.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Peter Howell Toronto Star (Top Critic)

50

Logic takes the greatest leap in Jumper, a sci-fi thriller that plays like a frog jacked on steroids.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

Woefully short on script, the picture ends up disappearing down the wormhole of its own premise.
Full Review » 4 years ago