Review: Jumper

I really wanted it to be good. I like this director, I like these writers, I wanted to not hate Hayden Christensen anymore, because that's such a burden to carry around with you.

But the fact is, I hated Jumper the movie. And not because it puts my favorite book, its supposed source material, through the shredder. Jumper the film is badly written and badly acted, poorly conceived and unevenly executed. Ultimately it fails because it considers David's ability to teleport as a cool gimmick, rather than trying to tell a story about a guy who can teleport and what that means to him and does to him. The whole project is a miscalculation: a franchise of action fantasies was built around this story of a boy who struggles with a gift that takes him, metaphorically, to places he didn't want to go.

Read my review here. There's also an image gallery here.