Years later, David (now played by Hayden Christensen) is directly teleporting into bank vaults and living the good life in New York and London apartments the material is ripe for superhero satire – David is using his powers for personal gain instead fighting evil, and hey, wouldn't we all – but the script plays everything disarmingly straight. An unmitigated disaster, Doug Liman's Jumper takes a potentially intriguing premise and goes absolutely nowhere with it what we're left with is essentially an 80-minute trailer, the cinematic equivalent of one of the postcards from an exotic locale that features heavily in the film.ĭuring a fifteen minute prologue – which turns out to be the best thing about the film – a young David Rice (Max Theriot) nearly dies when he falls through an ice-covered lake he's able to escape, however, when he discovers he can somehow teleport to another location.
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