"This One Won't Make U Jump."
Jumper is a movie that looks like it could've been the next big sci-fi hit for 2008 but instead it falls flat in the face of too much style and not enough substance.
The story revolves around David Rice (Hayden Christensen), where at a young age he discovers through an accident on the ice, that he has the ability to teleport. As he gets older he develops his teleporting ability and starts to jump all over the planet.
As good as his life sounds, he is unaware that he is both being observed and also that he is not the only jumper to exist on Earth. In time discovers his nemesis Roland (Samuel.L.Jackson)- a paladin, through a not-so friendly introduction, which marks the beginning of a cat-mouse chase that is conducted all over the entire planet.
Rice also meets up with another jumper Griffin (Jamie Bell) who is a veteran of the jumper-paladin wars and knows that being brash and showing off unecessarily will get u nothing but trouble. He acts as a stabilizing influence to Rice and educates him on the never ending conflict between jumpers and paladins.
Although the action and special effects are 1st class the story falls rather flat and nothing out of the ordinary ever happens in the movie regarding characters and the development of relationships. The romance between Rice and Millie (Rachel Bilson) is dull and uninteresting. Only through the saving grace of Jackson and Bell's acting that u pay attention to what is going on and hope that the two characters that they play will lift the movie above mediocrity, unfortunately in this mission they also both fail.
U see plenty of jumping, fancy cars and glamourous locations but it unfortunately doesn't add up to much because as soon as it those elements are off screen it returns to a dull drama which is directionless.
Sci-fi and special effects fans will "jump" for this one but other movie-goers may not be as thrilled.
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