Jumper Critic Reviews
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Based upon 14 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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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 the full review
Liman, for all his craft, doesn't have enough FUN with the premise.Read the full review
Jumper is all high concept with little invested in characters or story.Read the full review
Liman applies the same frenetic approach to action scenes that made "The Bourne Identity" such an engaging and exciting affair.Read the full review
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 the full review
Goes south as a sci-fi film.Read the 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 the full review
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 the full review
A barely coherent genre mishmash.Read the full review
No exciting action can cover the film's profound shallowness and repulsive attitude toward everyone but Christensen.Read the full review