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Jumper DVD Review

Published on June 9, 2008

Seat42f Says: Great expectations. Probably the best two words that come to mind of what I was thinking when I popped Jumper into the DVD player. The recipe seemed simple. Take a couple of fantastic movie trailers combined with Doug Liman, Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson and Samuel Jackson and you should have a good movie, right? Wrong! In between all the jumping back and forth I failed to connect with a single character. Not helping matters were Christensen and Bilson offering a big old zero in the chemistry department.  A shame really because there was so much more potential with this movie, but like a lot of big action movies the best parts are only found in the trailers. In the end it felt like a tired slight of hand magic trick. Keep your eyes on all of the nifty jumping sequences and you'll forget there isn't a movie in here worth much more than a rainy day, nothing else is on viewing. 

Movie: C

Extras: B

Anywhere.  Anything.  Instantly.  The evolution of the action thriller takes its biggest jump yet when Jumper makes its global debut on DVD and Blu-Ray Disc (BD) on June 10th in North America and from June 16th Internationally from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Synopsis:

From the director of The Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith comes the evolution of extreme — a high-powered shot of adrenaline that stretches the very limits of imagination.  David Rice is a young man who knows no boundaries — a Jumper, born with the uncanny ability to teleport instantly to any place on Earth. When he discovers others like himself, David is thrust into the midst of an ancient war while being hunted by a bloodthirsty band of zealots sworn to destroy all Jumpers. Now, David’s extraordinary gift may be his only hope for survival.

Jumper Single-Disc Bonus Features:
The Jumper single-disc DVD is presented in North America in full screen and widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) on a flipper disc with English Dolby Surround 5.1 and Spanish and French Dolby Surround, plus English and Spanish subtitles.  Bonus content includes:
    o       Audio Commentary By Director Doug Liman, Writer/Producer Simon Kinberg and Producer Lucas Foster
    o       Jumping >From Novel To Film:  The Past, Present & Future of Jumper Featurette
    o       Making An Actor Jump Featurette
    o       Previz:  Future Concepts

Jumper Two-Disc Special Edition Bonus Features:
The North American Jumper two-disc special edition DVD with digital copy includes all the above single-disc content along with the following additional bonus features:
    o       Doug Liman’s Jumper:  Uncensored Featurette
    o       Jumping Around The World Featurette
    o       Jumpstart: David’s Story Animated Graphic Novel
    o       Deleted Scenes
      o       Inadvertent Jumps
      o       Alternate Roland Introduction
      o       Tokyo And The Machine
      o       David Hides >From Roland
      o       Taxi To Airport – Rome
      o       Epilogue War