Jumper [Blu-ray] [2008]

Product Details

Director : Doug Liman
Actor : Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Hayden Christensen, Diane Lane
Format : Widescreen
Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
Binding : Blu-ray
EAN : 5039036037945
Product Group : DVD
Region Code : 2
Release Date : 2008-06-16
Running Time : 88minutes
Studio : 20th Century Fox

ASIN : B0015VI36Q

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson

Amazon.com

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, Amazon.com

Synopsis

Based on Steven Gould's critically acclaimed novel, JUMPER leaps onto the screen courtesy of director Doug Liman. David (Hayden Christiansen, STAR WARS – EPISODE 3 – REVENGE OF THE SITH) has inexplicably been given the power to teleport himself, or jump. He can jump into a bank vault, then to the top of the Sphinx, then back to his luxury Manhattan apartment. But despite all his power, he still misses his childhood love, Millie (Rachel Bilson, THE O.C.). When the opportunity arises, David jets off to Rome with Millie, but it's not all romance in the Italian city. David's unique abilities place him in the middle of a war between the jumpers and the paladins, a secretive group intent on hunting down the teleporters. Led by Roland (Samuel L. Jackson), the paladins track David and fellow jumper Griffin (Jamie Bell) across the world, and Millie may be caught in the crossfire.
JUMPER moves as fast as its teleporting hero, condensing the novel into a slim, action-packed offering. The slick special effects and impressive locations are certainly on par with Liman's previous work in THE BOURNE IDENTITY and MR. AND MRS. SMITH, but JUMPER bears a closer resemblance to comic book adaptations. Like most comic book protagonists with unearthly abilities, David grapples with his newfound talents. But unlike his tights-and-cape-wearing brethren, David doesn't use his ability for the greater good. Instead, it gets him piles of money and, perhaps, the girl he's been dreaming of since he was five years old. Though most action films are driven by the struggle between good and evil, JUMPER interestingly offers up a central character who lies somewhere in the middle.

Customer Reviews

Entertaining if empty (2008-08-22)

It's a good, fun action movie with 2007's best special effect gimmick. Christiansen makes some amends for Star Wars here, but it's Jamie Bell who steals the show.

Movie: 2.75~3.75/5 Picture Quality: 4~4.75/5 Sound Quality: 4~4.5/5 Extras: 3.5/5 (2008-07-16)

Version: U.S.A / Region-AFilm Rating: PG-13Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Running time: 1:28:29Video Codec: MPEG-4 AVCMovie size: 27,016,445,952Disc size: 43,779,808,800 (BD-50)Average Video Bit Rate: 32.16 MbpsAudio:# English DTS-Master Audio 5.1 Surround# Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround# French Dolby Digital 5.1 SurroundSubtitles: English SDH, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean#Commentary by director Doug Liman, producer Simon Kinberg and producer Lucas Foster.# Jumpstart: David's Story Animate Graphic Novel (8.07) the story as an animated graphic novel on screen# Jumping Around the World - this is a PiP feature for players that have the PiP feature enabled. For those players that are not equipped for it, the material is available in a separate menu that can be accessed. The material presented is very interesting taking the viewer to behind the scenes footage of the locations around the world the movie was shot# Doug Liman's Jumper: Uncensored (35.34) more behind the scenes footage# Making an Actor Jump (7.35)# Jumping from Novel to Film: The Past, Present and Future of Jumper (8.08)# deleted scenes - there are six here, not entirely finished as effects shots are unfinished, there is still green screen and a boom operating hanging in the background...so yeah...work needs to be done here# Previs future concepts (4.34) - a previs action sequence# a second disc includes a digital copy of the film for portable devices

Fantastic fun (2008-06-27)

I don't care what anyone says about this movie...it's nothing if not entertaining. The special effects are great and it certainly has the cool factor. OK, so there's the odd hole in the plot...but so long as you can overlook that then you should enjoy the movie. It's obvious there's going to be a sequel...

Not too Wooley... (2008-06-20)

The concept behind the movie is very good in that someone is able to transport themselves from one place to another nearly instantaneously, which also means in and out of vaults in various banks. The effects used to do this were well presented, although having lived in Egypt and having been to the Sphinx and seeing how the 'Antiquities' police are, our hero wouldn't have had much time to have done any sunbathing before being told to move on (or gestured, which was the usual trick)... The end I thought was a little anti-climatic and at the end you sort of thought "ahh, that's the end then". No real lead up to it, but I guess it does leave to door open for a sequel.

Very good! (2008-06-17)

The Blu-ray,Excellent picture quality & sound! Very impressed. Cool cover art, plenty of special features, all of which are in HD! The Movie,A very unique superhero film, with an interesting story of a boy who learns that he has the power of teleportation and the benefits that come with it (and later the drawbacks). Lots of future potential! Now excuse me while I go & buy the books!

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