Jumper Critic Reviews

It's difficult to know whom to root for.Read the full review

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 the 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 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

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

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 the full review

Jumper is all high concept with little invested in characters or story.Read the full review

A barely coherent genre mishmash.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