Jumper (Special Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

Jumper (Special Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]
by Doug Liman

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Actor: Barbara Garrick, Damir Andrei, Jesse James, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hulce
Director: Doug Liman
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Barry Peterson
Composer: John Powell
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), DTS 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-10
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

Movie Reviews of Jumper (Special Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: Left me ambivalent.
Summary: 2 Stars

I love this 'theme'. This idea. The beginning was cool. Some effects were cool. I'm such a science fiction freak I will generally watch even pretty bad movies without complaint, just happy to have a little more of my genre make the big screen.

Yet... my 12 year old and I watched this. The plot... needed help so badly even she was scornful. It's one of those cases where the only reason the plot works at all is because the writers make all the characters uncommunicative morons, who get in situations solely because they're so stupid that you can't even feel sorry for them. We were too busy yelling at them to feel sorry for them.

Then there's the whole jumper-history and the lead's mother issue. Since the people pursuing the jumpers are not jumpers themselves, what are the odds that some one in a billion trait would show up in the kid of a hunter? Had they written it so they were all jumpers but on opposite sides, that might have had a chance.

To make matters worse, the one truly decent character in the show was apparently killed by the hero, or close enough (even that was not entirely clear), dashing the last ray of optimism we had for him or his worthiness. Before it was over we were genuinely hoping the hero would die a sudden and fiery death. Totally annoying.

But I love the whole concept this is based on. I feel like this COULD, potentially, have been an awesome movie. I would love to see more along these lines. It just doesn't seem like anybody with a brain was closely enough involved with it to have it come out less than embarrassing.

If your only interest is some cool effects in nice settings, have at it. It does have that, it's an "action movie" and I liked that part of it.

If you want even half a plot or halfway intelligent characters, though, this is probably not the show for you.

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Summary of Jumper (Special Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

Disc 1: **Audio Commentary - Participants TBD **Audio Commentary- Participants TBD **Doug Liman: Total Access Featurette **Jumping Around the World Featurette **Jumper: Beginning of a Trilogy Featurette **Action and Effects of Jumper Featurette **Animated Graphic Novel6 Deleted Scenes **Deleted Scenes Montage **Previs from the Movie **Previs for Potential Sequels (Future Previs) **BD Live link

Disc 2: **Digital Copy

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. --Bret Fetzer

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