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Jumper [Blu-ray] [2008]
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Editorial
Product Description
Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson
Editorial
Amazon.com
As preposterous action movies go, Jumper is pleasantly unpretentious and breezily entertaining. A young man named David (Hayden Christensen) discovers he has the power to teleport (or "jump") anywhere he can visualize. After using this power to steal and make a comfortable life for himself, he pursues the girl he longed for in school (Rachel Bilson, The O. C.). But as he does so, another jumper (Jamie Bell, Billy Elliot) and a pack of fanatical jumper-hunters called paladins (led by a white-haired Samuel L. Jackson) crashes into David's freewheeling life. Jumper wastes no time trying to explain how jumping works or delving into the hows and whys of the paladins; this is an alluring fantasy of power directed at a pell-mell pace by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Go). There's a brief moment when it feels like the movie will bog down in romance and vague gestures towards character development--happily, that's the moment when Bell appears and the whole movie shifts into overdrive. You might wish that Bell and Christensen had swapped roles; Bell has a far more engaging personality, and Christensen's bland good looks might better suit a more aggressive character. Nonetheless, Jumper has oodles of dynamism and nifty visual effects to propel its comic-book storyline forward. A variety of recognizable actors in bit parts (such as Diane Lane and Kristen Stewart, Panic Room) suggest that the filmmakers are laying the groundwork for sequels. Based on a critically-acclaimed science-fiction novel by Steven Gould. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com
Entertaining if empty
Review date: 2008-08-22 Rating: 6 out of 10
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.
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Reviews
Movie: 2.75~3.75/5 Picture Quality: 4~4.75/5 Sound Quality: 4~4.5/5 Extras: 3.5/5
Review date: 2008-07-16 Rating: 8 out of 10
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
Fantastic fun
Review date: 2008-06-27 Rating: 8 out of 10
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...
Not too Wooley...
Review date: 2008-06-20 Rating: 8 out of 10
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.
Very good!
Review date: 2008-06-17 Rating: 8 out of 10
The Blu-ray,
Excellent picture quality & sound! Very impressed. Cool cover art, plenty of special features, all of which are in HD!
The Movie,
A very unique superhero film, with an interesting story of a boy who learns that he has the power of teleportation and the benefits that come with it (and later the drawbacks). Lots of future potential! Now excuse me while I go & buy the books!
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Jamie Bell
Rachel Bilson
Diane Lane
Hayden Christensen
Samuel L. Jackson
Creators:
Samuel L. Jackson (Primary Contributor)
Jamie Bell (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
EAN: 5039036037945
Binding: Blu-ray
Number of items: 1
Format: Widescreen,
Release date: 2008-06-16
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 88 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2008
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: Spanish (Original Language)
Language: Italian (Original Language)