Jumper [Blu-ray]

Good movie!!!

This movie was filmed at my old high school where the writer David Goyer also went. He based the falling through the ice incident on an actual event that happened to one of our classmates on the Huron River back in 1982. Very nostalgic for me.

Love it

I went to see Jumper with some of my family when it was released, and I have to say I enjoyed it very much. I've liked Hayden Christensen since I saw "Life as a House," and Samuel L. just rips up a villain role like nobody's business. The special effects were very well done and I was delighted to find that the main storyline they implied in the commercials is NOT what happened! Sure, the main character can teleport, but the rest.... The movie is billed as scifi/thriller type, but that's a bit misleading. This is more like the Highlander films, a fantasy element in the real world.The movie was pretty fast paced with only a couple slower moments, and the character's self-exploration once he discovers the ability was almost as good as Peter Parker's in the first Spider-Man movie. Actually, in one way it was better. Peter uses his power to win a wrestling match and then jumps right into the hero role. Our similarly-aged jumper, however, jumps right into a bank vault, and a store, and...! *grin* He really is an ordinary person with an extraordinary ability. He used his ability for theft, but also for taking his surfboard to Fiji for the best waves. I liked the movie enough that I quickly ordered the book. They are COMPLETELY different, but both good for different reasons. The movie added a opposing force for jumpers (i.e. a "villain") whereas in the book, David mostly battles his own inner demons (with a lot of introspection). Plus, the very cool character of Griffin was completely made-up for the film. His character adds great action while giving viewers another jumper to identify with besides David. Though the movie had closure, they left it wide open for a sequel that I really hope gets made.I think some viewers were overly critical of this film. It's not going to win any oscars, but I was entertained and that's the most important criteria.As to the DVD itself, I have to say, do NOT buy the 2-disc edition. The second disk contains only a digital copy. All the extras are on disc one, which the regular edition has! I really wish the product description had been more clear on this. I wouldn't have paid the additional $6 for a digital copy which you have to use a keycode to transfer. The code is located on a card in the case, but it clearly states to be careful not to lose it. Also, the outer sleeve has a holographic image of the cover art that is glued to the front of the sleeve. I don't see it lasting long. Finally, once again the studio includes ads in the case, but no insert with chapter index and extra features.The extra features were pretty standard. There's commentary, making of, interviews with the authors/producer etc, book to film featurette, and some deleted scenes (all of which I felt were rightly cut from the film). The interviews were interesting sinc ethey touched on how the producer obviously changed the book, and how the author felt. Nothing spectacular here, but for a single disc edition these were perfectly fine - and far more than they offered with "the Bourne Ultimatium".

-POSSIBLE SPOILERS I RAMBLE A LOT-Its fun jumping back in and watching this movie again. I always wanted to see this movie bring a sequel. Although Impulse is a You Tube red production from what I hear.Don't have a clue what that's about other than its based off the third book within the jumper series. Which I never read but it sounds great.I watched this film again due to a college paper that I need to write about analyzing movies.The film by itself is great to me personally. Its always fun jumping to different parts of the world even though it can feel lost with all the close shots. The scenery is great, the music is a blast from the past, and the characters for the most part are interesting to get you through the runtime.The main antagonist of the movie the Paladins seemed lacking in character. For the most part they were just there to have the plot move forward. I would like to understand the main reason why they are hunting Jumpers in the first place. Not just because they believe only "God should have the power to be everywhere" (quote from movie don't know how to list this properly. It went something along those lines).It just comes out cliché even if Samuel L Jackson is a great actor that plays the main antagonist Roland. A little more backstory would have added a little more spice to the mix. Not the whole background but enough to explain the ending and why people would go so far and hunt people down with special abilities.Its explained more in the book from what I hear. Its understandable that a film when adapting a book from pages to script can be challenging. Certain things have to be cut in order to enough time for a film. Its just disappointing that important key moments can be lost in translation when filming and that's disappointing.That's the only thing I probably disliked so far. The film was a great time to watch and I loved the editing within the film. I'm just barely noticing little things that I never noticed before and its exciting.

Recommend this highly

I ended up watching this because I had watched everything else I could think of on Amazon, and my expectations were quite low. However, the premise of a guy who can instantaneously leap to wherever in the world he wants is not a bad one for a science fiction/fantasy movie, the plot was well-written, and the bad guys were interesting. It got some bad reviews from critics, but I honestly can't see why.A few ancillary points:*The only thing bad about the acting was a handful of times when the main character seemed to morph into a whiny Anakin Skywalker for just a second or two. It wasn't enough to spoil the movie, but it was there.*I was stationed in Cairo for a couple of years, directly across the Nile river from the Pyramids. This is the only adventure movie I have ever watched which features the Pyramids and makes it evident that the Pyramids are not hundreds of miles from anywhere. The movie actually shows that they are in fact on the outskirts of Cairo, which has a population of roughly 3 times that of New York City.So nice job. Just wanted to get that off my chest.

Wish teleportation was real

I watched this in 3-D - the images were okay, the different locations interesting but then that was only the beginning of the end of my interest in this sheer mess of a movie which suffers from really two main factors - the script and acting.This is not to say that the actors involved are all bad, its just that they have had go lumbering along with a script thathasn't a clue what its going to do or say next and hence so too the actors.Jamie clips his dialogue at such a fast pace. you get the notion he really wants out of it altogether.The "Jumpers" can move in an instance to another part of a room or another country in minus a second - a fictitious idea that really hadn't been thought through enough with any real idea as to its meaningful purpose, just "hey, look, I can do this!" Whoosh! Hence, a lot of repetition throughout.I can only say the more Samuel Jackson was involved, the more I had hope for the remainder, but sadly he only appeared occasionally when bad things needed to happen to these pesky Jumpers. As it was I could hardly wait to to be a Jumper myself and fast forward into another movie.

loosely based on a series of books by steven jay gould, this is an action/science fiction movie, and first in a proposed trilogy telling one long story. David is a high school loner who pines for a female classmate. then one day caught in a life or death situation he finds he has the natural ability to teleport from place to place. leaving people thinking he's dead and making plenty of visits to bank vaults to get money, he's able to set himself up in a nice life as an independent world jumping playboy.but only then years later does he discover that he's not the only one who can do this, and there's a secret organisation out there who target those who can. on the run and trying to get together with his long lost sweetheart only an uneasy alliance with a more experienced jumper called griffin might save the day. but will he go as far into the war between jumpers and the organisation as griffin has?not a movie with any great depth, just an attempt at a decent piece of action entertainent. and to set up a franchise. it just about succeeds on both counts. hayden christiensen does bring a certain vulnerability to the role that means you can just about relate to his character [looks like a few other reviewers disagree with me on that, but to each their own]. rachel bilson and samual l jackson do their best with slightly underwritten roles as the love interest and the chief bad buy. but jamie bell livens up the film as bad boy giffin with an immensely appealing and entertaining performance.not a great movie, but not a bad start to the franchise. hopefully there'll be a sequel that can build on this.the dvd extras are as follows:a commentary by the director, the writer/producer, and another producerjumping from novel to film: a documentary about the origin of the story in book form and it's transition to screen. quite an interesting watch in regards to what it says about future films and the writer's views on books being turned into movies.making an actor jump: a short and quite interesting feature about the special effects involved in the teleportation scenessix deleted scenes. the first five all are quite good character moments that flesh things out, but were clearly cut for pacing reasons. the last is a neat little epilogue showing what happened to one character whom we last see in a bit of a jam. a fun little scene.jumping around the world: a short but decent feature about the locations usedjumper: exposed. a long documentary about the making of the film. rather than adopt the usual structured documentary format for these it instead shows lots of footage of the film in production from day to day of the shoot. quite fascinating stuff as a look at the movie business. although be aware there's a lot of strong language in it. and that it only makes a cursory mention right at the start of the fact that the two leads were recast after shooting had been going on for a few weeks.david's story. an animated graphic novel, telling of the main characters quest to find out more about his mother. the animation is a bit basic but the voice acting is quite good and as a story it's not bad, adding a little more depth to the main character.previz: future concepts. a cgi storyboarding of a rather spectacular fight scene. definitely not from this movie it's presumably something that might air in one of the proposed sequels.coming soon: trailers for the movies juno and be kind, rewind.the only language tracks and subtitles on the disc are in english. no other languages are available.as a movie 7.5/10 but the decent extras push the dvd up to an 8/10

The hero has the ability to jump to another location at will, but without the fantastic gizmos so beloved of sci-fi movies. There are always consequences to unusual abilities, and the easy wealth our hero accumulates is his undoing. He is pursued by a self-elected group who seek to trap all these 'abominations' who can move at will.Symptomatic of normal society, those with ability sometimes suffer at the hands of those jealous of them. Our hero meets another like him, but not with his temperament, so strains and contentions arise.A classic chase movie with a twist. Great special effects, and quite believable too, if we could only relocate in just such fashion! Maybe that's the film's secret, we all wish we had a superpower like that. I won't give the game away, but all antagonists think they are on the side of right, and the finale has a fantastic twist.I dropped a star from the rating because I found the acting a little stiff at times, but nevertheless, a very entertaining movie that is firmly in my collection.

Refer back to the original book (not the film-based re-write) and you'll see just how the movie takes a scared but plucky kid, intelligent, bookish, with a firm sense of right and wrong, escaping an abusive father and longing for his departed mother... and replaces him with a smirking self-satisfied empty greedy grubby little man and a very unconvincing plot about jumpers and peladons. Doug Liman's film scoops out the soul, excitement, personal discovery and scariness of being alone and different in an uncaring and selfish world with a bland, incoherent yarn involving unlikeable people. The quality of the film dips the instant it segues to the first appearance of Hayden Christensen and from that point survives only on the strength of shoehorned effects, John Powell's perky score, location prn and an against-current turn by Jamie Bell. Even mutated into a fantasy action flick this film fails to sparkle simply because the main characters are self-centred or devoid of any depth. In the end, you simply don't care, and it's almost worth a second watch just to see how so many promising elements fall flat. Fans of the book will probably daydream wistfully of an alternative reality where Max Thieriot's younger David Rice (already c.20 at the time of filming!) follows the book's plot of every lonely teen's greatest dream and nightmare rolled into one.

This is barely e-mailed. The locations for example, notable in a film about teleportation, are treated with such laconic disdain by the protagonist that it translates to the audience, and may just as well be the pictures needed to visit them. Flat and lacking atmosphere.David, (Hayden Christensen), is a teleporter with a lifestyle built on impulse and stolen luxury, until he encounters other teleporters as he is hunted by an organisation bent on their destruction.Why are they being hunted? Imagine a unification of teleporters, or 'jumpers'. They can go anywhere, take anything, and escape in an instant. They flout the law to their own gain, like modern day pirates, feared by law enforcement and thieves alike. Now keep imagining, because while that's hinted at, you won't see it here. The concept only serves to make Samuel L Jackson's villain Roland seem foolish, as hunting pushes the jumpers together where individually they seem inherently selfish, prone to crimes of decadence which seem petty in comparison to what their combined forces could achieve.'Could' is the keyword here. Throughout there are genuinely interesting ideas posed and wasted. The specific focus on teleporters, (unlike in superhero ensemble pieces), gives us a unique chance to explore the power further. How much can they teleport? How does teleporting affect the atmosphere around them? Sadly, if you don't care about the characters posing these questions, you won't care about the answers, and the character work isn't there.Individually? Rachel Bilson is cute but given nothing to work with. Teleporting is cool but we don't know if it's the only, 'power', in this universe. Samuel L Jackson is Samuel L Jackson, but he's laden with half-baked religious dialogue that never pays off. These elements almost appear to be in different movies cut and pasted together - the lack of chemistry between the elements make it difficult to care about the film as a whole, and while the climactic location-hopping battle is very cool, you can't help but wish you were seeing it in another movie where the outcome has some weight. As it is, you'll be laughing long before the conclusion of a ridiculous subplot involving David's mother.The only one to escape unscathed is Jamie Bell as fellow jumper Griffin. Where everything else in the film fails to connect Bell practically jumps off the screen; his rogue survivalist jumper is a funny, disarming shot of life in an otherwise flat affair, subtly twisted by what his powers have forced him through. He is David if there was no penthouse. He's begun to see what it means to be different and it's ironic that through him David sees the truth of Roland's mantra, 'There are always consequences.' Another intriguing concept, that we might sympathise with the villain, but as much as Bell elevates his sequences his character also serves to highlight how we mostly follow David in a time where he's jaded to the wonders of his powers, and before he's fully involved in the struggle. While he begins to comprehend a world outside himself Griffin is already in the thick of it, something you only sees glimpses of but that appears to be the more powerful story. Indeed for all its aesthetics, not much is shown worth seeing.So Jumper's not outrageously bad, but it's not good. It's got clever ideas, but they're not explored. It's got a double decker bus action sequence, but The Mummy Returns did it better. It's just not as much fun as it should be, and not meaningful enough to make up for that.DVD extras are lacking too.