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(1 - 42) of 42 OFCS Rating: 19% Rotten Page   1   2.5/4 "A diverting but confounding movie with only about a half-hour's worth of plot. The rest of Jumper is filled with lots of noise and special effects."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari "Jumper never really seems, for all its spatial to-ing and fro-ing, to get up and moving properly. Perhaps it should have been called Hopper..."   musicOMH.com   Anton Bitel 2/5 "Jumper is junk, a halfway decent premise destroyed by some of the worst hiring choices in the history of motion picture personnel."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron A- "Spectacular...a head-spinning, duck-in-your-seat bullet of popcorn entertainment that could shake the winter blues out of multiplexes everywhere."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf D "The eye-popping visuals soon devolve into a visual white noise, and you're left to ponder why you didn't make a better movie selection."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "The backdrop -- a flimsy fantasy version of a real life, politically messy tragedy -- reminds you yet again of the utter inconsequence of Jumper."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2.5/4 "...a mindlessly engaging piece of escapist fare that benefits from its uniformly able performances and refreshingly brisk running time..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair D "Incoherent, unimaginative and silly sci-fi thriller."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 1.5/4 "With no one to root for, no adequate story development, and action scenes that are the epitome of underwhelming, Jumper is a lost cause."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman C "Add Jumper to the list of movies with nifty premises that are squandered by a sloppy, rushed execution."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1/4 "A lethargic, incomprehensible event picture that is the action film equivalent of Phil Collins' Take Me Home video."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B- "[Christensen's] utter vacancy is a bane on Jumper, an otherwise serviceable sci-fi thriller that would have benefited from a compelling center."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 3/4 "There will be many questions that linger and will continue to linger once the credits roll, but I had a blast just the same..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. "A better filmmaker would have given the material some kind of vertiginous rhythm, yet Liman just plods humorlessly, flavorlessly."   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce 2/4 "Pared-down with flat-footed characterizations, tacked on scenic shots of worldly venues and a choppy script that isn't disciplined enough to tap into our escapist imaginations, Jumper is a toothless travelogue that treks up the wrong charted route."   TheWorldJournal.com   Frank Ochieng D "An elaborate but messy sci-fi chase...marked by flat characterization, a narrative rife with illogic, and surprisingly poor special effects."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2.5/4 "One of the cardinal rules when making a motion picture about a superhero, especially one no one has heard of, is not to make the integrity of the story depend on the existence of a sequel. Unfortunately, that's a rule that director Doug Liman breaks."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "Expect critics to make a lot of 'we wish we could have teleported right out of cinemas showing it' remarks . . ."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley 3/10 "Click here to read review"   vj.net.ua   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 4/10 "Maybe the goal of Jumper involved making you dislike its protagonist ... If so, then congratulations would be in order."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 1/4 "The lazy regard for David's moral crisis, or lack thereof, is pitiful."   Slant Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp 7/10 "I really liked this movie but unfortunately much like its lead character, played effectively by Hayden Christensen, it moved a little too fast."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 1/4 "This rare misstep from director Doug Liman, about a young loner who finds he has the power to teleport, ironically goes nowhere."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito "Jumper is like a glorified TV pilot from 2005, when supernatural dramas were all the rage. It will make it onto the schedule, but have its legs cut out from under it before the season is over."   Boxoffice Magazine   John P. McCarthy 2/5 "glitonei ti mayri trypa shedon apokleistika hari sti hazomara tis synthesis tis ideas tis tainias, poy kalyptei me ena campy peplo tin asynartisia tis ektelesis"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis "Same old song: this is cinema as globalized theme park ride."   UGO   Keith Uhlich 3.0/4.0 "Ignore the previews. Unless there was a drastic change of storyline in the editing room at the last minute, the final cut is a lot more interesting than originally advertised."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2/4 "The film looks great, but at a brisk 88 minutes, there's no time to fill in back story, and the cliffhanger ending is so abrupt that the movie seems bizarrely truncated."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 2/4 "Makes us focus too much on its storytelling shortcomings when we should be impressed by the light and sound show."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "[F]eels like half a movie... pallid and empty and barely even raises questions that should be asked, never mind actually answering even a couple of them..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/5 "All scribes involved understand the superhero formula rather well and have fun presenting a familiar premise (that of transporting characters) into an entertaining ride. But perhaps it's all too familiar."   Bronsonfive   Michael Ferraro 1.5/4 "It feels like Jumper might have been longer at one point, then had everything but the action scenes removed. What plays on the screen is therefore an empty, hollow shell of a film that keeps you at arm's length."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C "This movie is paced for an audience that grew up multi-tasking and its aesthetic sensibility and depth of story-telling is equivalent to a beer commercial."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 2/5 "Uma pena que, ao se preocupar excessivamente com a idéia de gerar uma nova e lucrativa série, o filme se esqueça de si mesmo."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1/5 "It plays exactly like a trailer that has been stretched out to 88 minutes%u2013all money shots with no story or engaging characters to tie them together"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2/5 "The teleporting premise is intriguing enough to hold our interest, but the screenwriters never make anything of it, letting the story get increasingly corny."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline "So lazily assembled and unenthusiastically performed that it could very well be an alternate cut of itself, assembled from takes that were justly consigned to the cutting room floor."   House Next Door   Rob Humanick D+ "A movie of marvelous little moments framing giant dumb contrivances."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C+ "It's a good premise for a story, but is very sketchy."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 2/5 "It's got just enough charm, story, and action to fill a half-decent trailer -- and the trailer doesn't set you back nine bucks."   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg 2/5 "lifeless"   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 4/10 "There's Samuel L. Jackson with frosty white hair snarling, 'There are ALWAYS! CONSEQUENCES!' That's worth some money, I suppose."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 42) of 42 OFCS Rating: 19% Rotten Page   1