Jumper

Liman applies the same frenetic approach to action scenes that made "The Bourne Identity" such an engaging and exciting affair.Read Full Review »

But what can you do with Hayden Christensen? He's as close as we have to an android actor. It's all a chore for him. He never looks sufficiently scared, impressed, or surprised by any of this.Read Full Review »

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. Jumper tells us that Americans fantasize about getting rich by stealing and going everywhere they want without restrictions; that they are materialistic, disrespect foreign antiquities, and remain blind to their own and to world history.Read Full Review »

Liman, for all his craft, doesn't have enough FUN with the premise.Read Full Review »

Jumper is all high concept with little invested in characters or story.Read Full Review »

Fast is a good quality in an action/adventure. But there is lightning-paced and then there is warp speed. Doug Liman's Jumper is the latter, a not-so-good quality in an action/adventure for the simple reason that the audience can't figure out what's going on.Read Full Review »

It doesn't help that the performances are bland (particularly those of Christensen and Bilson) and that what comes out of their mouths is uninspired. Short on imagination and anchored by a wan hero, Jumper is a flight of fancy that never fully takes off.Read Full Review »

It's difficult to know whom to root for.Read Full Review »

Jumper not only makes the rules up as it goes along; it neglects to tell us what those rules are, which is both unfair and unfun.Read Full Review »

A barely coherent genre mishmash.Read Full Review »