As Sci-Fi goes, it was pretty unimaginative. If you could teleport yourself virtually anywhere on Earth, would you have to become a criminal, rob banks, to have a kewl lifestyle? There are so many loose ends in this film, nobody could ever tie them together, but the relationship between the Jumper and his high school crush is the loosest of them. He never kisses her, never holds her hand, then after 8 years apart (everyone but her thinks he’s dead), he shows up at the bar where she’s working and in one breath convinces her to fly with him to Rome and share a hotel room. Then he gets her to break a few Itlaian trespassing laws with him, ditches her at the airport… what the heck does she see in him (or he see in her) that keeps them sort of together throughout the movie? And the other jumper he meets – a total nut case. Other than survival, I could not understand his motivation at all. In short, some fun special effects and a novel premise do not a good SF movie make. Even action films have to deliver compelling characters and relationships. So skip this one, and you will not have missed much. Watch it, and you will not have seen much.

I did think it was worth consuming. No, it was no academy award contender. I think the story could have been developed further. Though there were lots of special effects, it was though there was a limited budget. The ending left one thinking…. probably going to be a sequal.

Anakin and Mace Windu battle for world domination!!!!!

Actually, no, you’ve just stumbled into another bad comic book-like, scifi for the popcorn and giggles crowd afternoon special. The beginning of Jumper was enjoyable, you know, the build-up. A shy guy likes a girl, they’re starting to connect, kinda. But it gets messy really quick. This flick has no plot to speak of. Parts of ideas that may have actually worked weren’t expanded on. The movie jumps (sorry, couldn’t resist) from one point to another: it’s a bank roberry! No, it’s a reunion of boy and girl, wait no – it’s good versus evil. Oh, and wait, his mom’s er, uh. I’m not telling.

At times the good vs evil angle (Sam Jackson with wig on, mothafocka!) made it seem like finally, things were coming together and scenes would resemble something of a sensible movie. But no, here’s another angle that’s totally predictable. Can you guess what happens next? At least I saw this for free. Had I gone to the theatres for a screening I might’ve napped throughout the whole thing. The jumping, fwiw, was cool for a good ten minutes – after that it was all Chinese takeout.

Go read a book or something, gosh! Stay away from bad movies.