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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60
EmpireOlly Richards
It’s Liman’s least charismatic action movie and the least developed, but it still packs some cracking action into its brief running time and lays foundations on which a great franchise could be built. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
I'll say this much for Jumper – it's got a great premise. Or at least the beginnings of a premise. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
It's a feature-length teaser for a never-to-be sci-fi franchise. Read full review
50
Film ThreatStina Chyn
The major weakness in Jumper is the piling on of action and narrative in the last ten to twelve minutes. It's as though the editor was rushing to meet a deadline and did the best he could with too much footage. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
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 full review
50
VarietyBrian Lowry
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 full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Liman, for all his craft, doesn't have enough FUN with the premise. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter Addiego
Goes south as a sci-fi film. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
The whole production does reek a bit of origin story filminess, but even so, it's light sabers beyond Christensen's sad, revengeful fate in "Episode III" and does offer a nice view of the top of the Sphinx's head no less than three times. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
The best thing -- maybe the only good thing -- about the expensive sci-fi movie, Jumper, is its high-concept premise, which gives its hero the power of teleporting himself anywhere on the globe in the blink of an eye: from the Coliseum of Rome to the North Pole. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The film LOOKS great, but at a brisk 88 minutes, there's no time to fill in back story, from the epic history of paladin persecution to the deeply personal mystery of David's mother, and the cliffhanger ending is so abrupt that the movie seems bizarrely truncated. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Woefully short on script, the picture ends up disappearing down the wormhole of its own premise. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
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 full review
50
SalonJames Hannaham
Though dazzled by its ultra-modern wizardry and the high gloss of its production values, one can also feel the globalist double standard roiling underneath the adolescent-kid fantasy plot. Jumper tells us that Americans fantasize about getting rich by stealing and going everywhere they want without restrictions; that they are materialistic, disrespect foreign antiquities, and remain blind to their own and to world history. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
Jumper is all high concept with little invested in characters or story. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
There's enough kinetic energy in Jumper to light a thousand houses. Unfortunately, there's no one home in any of them. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
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 full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Fast is a good quality in an action/adventure. But there is lightning-paced and then there is warp speed. Doug Liman's Jumper is the latter, a not-so-good quality in an action/adventure for the simple reason that the audience can't figure out what's going on. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
It's difficult to know whom to root for. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
No exciting action can cover the film's profound shallowness and repulsive attitude toward everyone but Christensen. Read full review
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