Jumper [Blu-ray] [2008] - DVD (Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Hayden Christensen, Diane Lane - Dir: Doug Liman)

Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson

Customer Reviews of Jumper [Blu-ray] [2008]

xyzzy
Arlington, Texas
19th October 2008

The first of three planned movies
Running David (Max Thieriot) loves little Millie (AnnaSophia Robb) with a love that couldn't die. He couldn't swim the raging river; but he leaned how to jump. What would you do if you found the ability to transport? Yep the first plan was to exacta all not nasty old paper in the local bank. Where do we go from here? For one thing it irks some people including fanatic "jumper hunter" Roland (Samuel L. Jackson.) We find new friends and enemies no known in the book. Then we have David's nagging question "Who/what is mommy?

Inspired by the jumper character in the youth novels of Steven Gould the movie tried to rely more on the real world locations than graphics. They did a good job on jumper graphics. The names have not been changed just the story. In an effort not to follow the standard supper hero formula they instead relied on the Sunday afternoon T.V. children's specials formula.

The film is entertaining but the efforts to be artsy or the efforts be unique are lost in the mundane and standard chase scenes.

Sleepwalking
Jumper: Jumpscars - The Official Prequel to the Film (Jumper)

K. P. Curtis
Bath, UK
22nd August 2008

Entertaining if empty
It's a good, fun action movie with 2007's best special effect gimmick. Christiansen makes some amends for Star Wars here, but it's Jamie Bell who steals the show.

LGANS316
Tokyo Japan
16th July 2008

Movie: 2.75~3.75/5 Picture Quality: 4~4.75/5 Sound Quality: 4~4.5/5 Extras: 3.5/5
Version: U.S.A / Region-A
Film Rating: PG-13
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running time: 1:28:29
Video Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Movie size: 27,016,445,952
Disc size: 43,779,808,800 (BD-50)
Average Video Bit Rate: 32.16 Mbps

Audio:
# English DTS-Master Audio 5.1 Surround
# Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
# French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround

Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean

#Commentary by director Doug Liman, producer Simon Kinberg and producer Lucas Foster.

# Jumpstart: David's Story Animate Graphic Novel (8.07) the story as an animated graphic novel on screen

# Jumping Around the World - this is a PiP feature for players that have the PiP feature enabled. For those players that are not equipped for it, the material is available in a separate menu that can be accessed. The material presented is very interesting taking the viewer to behind the scenes footage of the locations around the world the movie was shot

# Doug Liman's Jumper: Uncensored (35.34) more behind the scenes footage

# Making an Actor Jump (7.35)

# Jumping from Novel to Film: The Past, Present and Future of Jumper (8.08)

# deleted scenes - there are six here, not entirely finished as effects shots are unfinished, there is still green screen and a boom operating hanging in the background...so yeah...work needs to be done here

# Previs future concepts (4.34) - a previs action sequence

# a second disc includes a digital copy of the film for portable devices

Garry Williams
London (Enfield)
27th June 2008

Fantastic fun

I don't care what anyone says about this movie...it's nothing if not entertaining. The special effects are great and it certainly has the cool factor. OK, so there's the odd hole in the plot...but so long as you can overlook that then you should enjoy the movie. It's obvious there's going to be a sequel...

NutShell
Hong Kong
20th June 2008

Not too Wooley...
The concept behind the movie is very good in that someone is able to transport themselves from one place to another nearly instantaneously, which also means in and out of vaults in various banks. The effects used to do this were well presented, although having lived in Egypt and having been to the Sphinx and seeing how the 'Antiquities' police are, our hero wouldn't have had much time to have done any sunbathing before being told to move on (or gestured, which was the usual trick)...

The end I thought was a little anti-climatic and at the end you sort of thought "ahh, that's the end then". No real lead up to it, but I guess it does leave to door open for a sequel.