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: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/FUTURISTIC Rating: PG-13 UPC: 024543519652 Manufacturer No: 2251965
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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. --
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Stills from JumperActors
- Hayden Christensen
- Diane Lane
- Jamie Bell
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Jesse James
Rating
- PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
More Information
- Studio - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
- Publisher - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
- Label - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
- Binding - DVD
Format Information
- AC-3
- Color
- Dolby
- DTS Surround Sound
- Dubbed
- DVD-Video
- Full Screen
- Subtitled
- Widescreen
- NTSC
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