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What remains plays out like a (pricey) cable series pilot. Smith”), but then again, it seems as if huge chunks of story have been teleported themselves in order for the film to conform to a noticeably rushed, scant 93-minute running time. Goyer (“Batman Begins”), Jim Uhls (“Fight Club”) and Simon Kinberg (“Mr. That’s surprising given a lineup of writers including David S. It’s evident that this is a movie with “The Matrix” on its mind, but where the Wachowskis’ movies came complete with a richly developed mythology, the “Jumper” backstory is awfully muddy.

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Jackson), a man with snow-white hair and a strong personal moral code having to do with the Jumpers going where only God should go. Griffin gives David a little history lesson about the centuries-old battle between the Jumpers and the Paladins, a secret organization dedicated to wiping them out courtesy of high-voltage contraptions known as tethers.Īnd leading the Paladin crusade is one Roland (Samuel L. That pretty much sets him up for life, spending his young-adult days whizzing among New York, London, Paris, Cairo or wherever his whim - and a surfable high-tide - takes him.īut just as David picks up where he left off with his school crush (Rachel Bilson), he finds out that he’s not the only one with his particular talent when he runs into Griffin (Jamie Bell) while snooping around the Colosseum in Rome. Once he gets the hang of things, he uses his teleporting powers to buy freedom from his abusive father (Michael Rooker) by jumping into a bank vault and jumping back out again with its entire contents. Given the director’s proven track record and nifty-looking teaser trailers, the Fox release should come out of the gate running, but more discerning moviegoers might opt to look before they leap, resulting in returns that would fall short of the usual Liman mark.īased on the young-adult sci-fi novels “Jumper” and “Reflex,” by Steven Gould, the film revolves around the transcontinental exploits of David Rice (Christensen), who inadvertently finds out about his peripatetic prowess while back in school, escaping from a potentially fatal accident. Smith.”īut for a picture steeped in wormholes and zippy trips via the space-time continuum, “Jumper” proves disappointingly inert.Īll the state-of-the-art visual effects in the world can’t compensate for spotty plotting and bland characters that prevent an intriguing premise from going the distance.

“Jumper” would seem to be a perfect match for Doug Liman, the man whose propulsive, hyperkinetic style has yielded a string of energetic hits, including “The Bourne Identity” and “Mr. Jackson, Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson attend the premiere of the movie Jumper at the Zeigfeld Theater in New York, February 11, 2008.

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