| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 18, 2011

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.

| Oct 18, 2008

The disappointments and the inexplicable plot turns kept mounting until I finally surrendered and just admitted it: This was just a goodlooking clunker.

Full Review | Feb 19, 2008

One day, I feel sure, the rich mantle of charisma will descend upon [Hayden Christensen], but Jumper is not that occasion.

| Feb 19, 2008

Important plot points are left unexplored, and there's no killer climax, so you leave the cinema deflated rather than thrilled.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2008

So freakin' awful.

| Feb 16, 2008

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.

| Feb 15, 2008

Jumper has so many loose ends that it almost cries out for a sequel. This, of course, is intentional. I would say the filmmakers are being a tad optimistic.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 15, 2008

Like so many other CGI behemoths, this dull action fantasy ultimately squashes rather than inspires one's sense of wonder.

| Feb 15, 2008

The only force on Earth so dense that it apparently can't be moved even by the movie's special effects is Christensen's wooden acting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 15, 2008

t's Liman's least charismatic action movie and the least developed, but it still packs some cracking action into its brief running time and lays foundations on which a great franchise could be built.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 15, 2008

Same old song: this is cinema as globalized theme park ride.

Full Review | Feb 14, 2008

This movie is paced for an audience that grew up multi-tasking and its aesthetic sensibility and depth of story-telling is equivalent to a beer commercial.

| Original Score: C | Feb 14, 2008

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 | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 14, 2008

Though dazzled by its ultra-modern wizardry and the high gloss of its production values, one can also feel the globalist double standard roiling underneath the adolescent-kid fantasy plot.

| Feb 14, 2008

No exciting action can cover the film's profound shallowness and repulsive attitude toward everyone but Christensen.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Feb 14, 2008

I can't see people lining up for a sequel -- unless Samuel Jackson's hair grows out and marches on Tokyo.

Full Review | Feb 14, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 14, 2008