Jumper
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: February 14, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
20
Negative:
14
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38
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Jumper, the film, goes everywhere and nowhere. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Director Doug Liman and a trio of writers eventually forget the rules they set up and hurl combatants to places they could never have seen or even known about: Who'd willingly project himself into the middle of a Chechnyan war zone? Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Deep into Hollywood's Dumb Season comes one of its dumbest offerings. Read full review
38
PremiereGlenn Kenny
These site-shifting extravaganzas sometimes reach an exhilarating level of near-abstraction. So it's too bad that just about everything surrounding the action scenes of the picture is such unmitigated cr--. Read full review
30
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
The result is more or less a remake of the great scene in “Sherlock Jr.,” where a dozing Buster Keaton dreams himself through a shuffled sequence of backgrounds. Jumper is ten times as brutal, maybe a thousand times more costly, and eighty-four years late, but it’s a start. Read full review
30
TimeRichard Corliss
Jumper is so lame -- undernourished in its characterizations, stillborn in its action scenes -- that it inevitably leads the idled mind to wondering how this movie got past the pitch stage. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
Jumper is so in sync with the language of modern action movies that it’s possible to look past its soullessness and go with the quantum flow. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
A barely coherent genre mishmash. Read full review
30
SlateDana Stevens
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 full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Like so many other CGI behemoths, this dull action fantasy ultimately squashes rather than inspires one's sense of wonder. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
The best stuff in Jumper comes early, while the movie is still busy explaining its scenario. It's only when all the pieces are in place and the story actually kicks in that things start to fall apart, and quickly. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
A totally ridiculous and incoherent sci-fi adventure. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
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 full review
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Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
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 full review
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