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Saw this movie some time back and I still can't go over the fact that this movie sucks. You would think that something sensible can come out of someone like Doug Liman who directed the Bourne trilogy and a material that played on the possibility of having the power to bend space and time, traveling anywhere at the blink of an eye. Given the material and what appears to be a hefty budget for potentially the coolest visual effects since The Matrix, this movie sucked big time. All I could really think of was to obtain the superpowers they displayed in the film in order to be transported instantaneously from where I was into somewhere else, including hell, just to get away from the atrocity that is Jumper.

Trying to find something redeeming in the movie was a taxing process so let me rant about the bad stuff. The film moves from one scenic location to the next. From the Amazon to Rome, from a remote desert to the streets of Tokyo and yet the cinematography is far from breathtaking. The plot is poorly constructed too, and the motivations weak. After Hayden's character is hunted down by so-called Paladins out to exterminate the world off Jumpers, he revisits his father and high school crush. The father is killed and the girl is mesmerized with Christensen's character and they go to Rome for a romantic spree despite not having seen each other for years and never had clarified what was going on between them since then. Everything goes awry in Rome and you wonder why Hayden's character loves the Ann Arbor's character so much.

At the core of all these is Hayden Christensen who is blessed with killer looks but can't act any better than a log. It was a mistake to have pinned hopes on him doing something good--or passable--since the bloke can't deliver even if he is assisted by some of the best visual effects from the Star Wars prequels and now Jumper. All he has to do is react to what is going on, and yet he manages to make looking bored so difficult to do. Even Samuel Jackson sucked. His cool persona has been used way too much before, and there really is no point anymore to his attempts at brooding.

While I can't think of any veritable way to end this review, let me show you this review I found on YouTube who will sum everything I failed to discuss here: