Jumper Review (Warning: Spoilers)

I’ve been watching a lot more movies lately than I usually do. My dad rented Jumper over the weekened and watched it with Mom. I heard some of the music near the end, and liked it so much I decided to watch the movie *whistles innocently*

I don’t like any of the characters. David Rice steals money from banks once he learns he can teleport, and despite saying he’ll pay it back, he never does. It’s implied he and a girl he meets in a bar do something immoral (he’s shown shirtless, standing at the window, and she’s in bed behind him mostly covered with a sheet but with her shoulders bared), and then he begans to do the same thing with Millie, his girlfriend, in an inappropriate scene that I skipped. Griffin won’t help save Millie when she’s captured because he’s so intent on killing the bad guys, even at the cost of her life, and so David leaves him entangled in electrical wires. There’s nothing to like about them – they have no redeeming values and suffer no consequences for their actions. Some of the poor choices David and Griffin make might be attributed to the way they grew up (Griffin’s parents were killed when he was five and David’s mother left the family when he was five, leaving him to grow up with an abusive father. This does not excuse them in my point of view, however).

There are some cool scenes where they’re jumping around, and I love the theme music, but this movie isn’t worth watching. You come away no better than before, worse if you’ve watched a certain scene and heard the language my DVD player mutes, and wonder if there’s any morality left in the world. If David had been a real hero who made the right choices, it would have been a fun movie. As it is, skip it.

Have an amazing rest of your life!

- WM