Jumper (2008)
Directed by Doug Liman
**1/4
Don't waste your time. Those are really all the words I need to review this vacuous, pit of lost celluloid. It's really not that bad, but it's story is so bad, it's the kind of thing I thought no one brought into 21st century film. David Rice is a teenager, and he's misunderstood. No, really! He has special powers and everything, but it distances him from really being able to love anyone. I mean, this weird ability to just will yourself to beam yourself through space without have to actually move there, it makes social life such a drag! So, darn it, poor David has to just leave everyone and do things his own way — robbing banks to keep his high life afloat, trying to lure his girlfriend back into a relationship, and avoiding Samuel L. Jackson with white hair. The effects are interesting, but there's no reason to make a film just to use them, when they could have waited for something written by someone who had graduated high school.
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