Jumper
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: February 14, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
20
Negative:
14
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67
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
It may be mindless and sexless and humorless, but Jumper jumps. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Liman applies the same frenetic approach to action scenes that made "The Bourne Identity" such an engaging and exciting affair. Read full review
60
EmpireOlly Richards
It’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. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
I'll say this much for Jumper – it's got a great premise. Or at least the beginnings of a premise. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
It's a feature-length teaser for a never-to-be sci-fi franchise. Read full review
50
Film ThreatStina Chyn
The major weakness in Jumper is the piling on of action and narrative in the last ten to twelve minutes. It's as though the editor was rushing to meet a deadline and did the best he could with too much footage. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Jumper proves disappointingly inert. All 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. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian Lowry
Director Doug Liman churns out a serviceable sci-fi thriller/videogame template that plays like "The Matrix Lite" and, finally, isn't nearly as cool as its trailer. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Liman, for all his craft, doesn't have enough FUN with the premise. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter Addiego
Goes south as a sci-fi film. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
The whole production does reek a bit of origin story filminess, but even so, it's light sabers beyond Christensen's sad, revengeful fate in "Episode III" and does offer a nice view of the top of the Sphinx's head no less than three times. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
The best thing -- maybe the only good thing -- about the expensive sci-fi movie, Jumper, is its high-concept premise, which gives its hero the power of teleporting himself anywhere on the globe in the blink of an eye: from the Coliseum of Rome to the North Pole. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The film LOOKS great, but at a brisk 88 minutes, there's no time to fill in back story, from the epic history of paladin persecution to the deeply personal mystery of David's mother, and the cliffhanger ending is so abrupt that the movie seems bizarrely truncated. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Woefully short on script, the picture ends up disappearing down the wormhole of its own premise. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
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
50
SalonJames Hannaham
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
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
Jumper is all high concept with little invested in characters or story. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
There's enough kinetic energy in Jumper to light a thousand houses. Unfortunately, there's no one home in any of them. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
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
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
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
50
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
It's difficult to know whom to root for. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
No exciting action can cover the film's profound shallowness and repulsive attitude toward everyone but Christensen. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Jumper, the film, goes everywhere and nowhere. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Director Doug Liman and a trio of writers eventually forget the rules they set up and hurl combatants to places they could never have seen or even known about: Who'd willingly project himself into the middle of a Chechnyan war zone? Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Deep into Hollywood's Dumb Season comes one of its dumbest offerings. Read full review
38
PremiereGlenn Kenny
These site-shifting extravaganzas sometimes reach an exhilarating level of near-abstraction. So it's too bad that just about everything surrounding the action scenes of the picture is such unmitigated cr--. Read full review
30
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
The result is more or less a remake of the great scene in “Sherlock Jr.,” where a dozing Buster Keaton dreams himself through a shuffled sequence of backgrounds. Jumper is ten times as brutal, maybe a thousand times more costly, and eighty-four years late, but it’s a start. Read full review
30
TimeRichard Corliss
Jumper is so lame -- undernourished in its characterizations, stillborn in its action scenes -- that it inevitably leads the idled mind to wondering how this movie got past the pitch stage. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
Jumper is so in sync with the language of modern action movies that it’s possible to look past its soullessness and go with the quantum flow. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
A barely coherent genre mishmash. Read full review
30
SlateDana Stevens
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
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Like so many other CGI behemoths, this dull action fantasy ultimately squashes rather than inspires one's sense of wonder. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
The best stuff in Jumper comes early, while the movie is still busy explaining its scenario. It's only when all the pieces are in place and the story actually kicks in that things start to fall apart, and quickly. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
A totally ridiculous and incoherent sci-fi adventure. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Talk about disappointing. Director Doug Liman exuded style and cool in "Swingers," "Go" and "The Bourne Identity." He lost his way in the star bloat of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," and now his mojo is buried in this amped-up sci-fi chase flick. Read full review
0
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
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. Dramatic development? None. Entertaining dialogue? Ditto. Internal logic? Puhleez. Intriguing characters? No characters, thus no intrigue. Interesting performances? Essentially none, though with an asterisk. Read full review
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