Jumper

Starring: Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane (for about 30 seconds), and that girl from TWILIGHT (about 5 seconds)

How you gonna have Diane Lane in the movie for only two scenes. At least one of those scenes she should've been jumping out of her thong. It reminded me of that movie EXECUTIVE DECISION where everyone thought Steven Seagal was in the movie and he died in the first 10 minutes.

Anyway, let's "jump" back to the movie. Hardy har har! JUMPER is about this guy who can teleport everywhere and eventually uses his powers to rob a bank and pretty much just travel the world. He likes this one girl from high school days. Everyone thinks he's dead 'cause he teleported for the first time away from everybody and never went back. That's pretty much it for the first half of the movie.

Then, Samuel L. Jackson shows up and all hell breaks loose as usual. He's part of another group of freaks called Paladins whose mission, for some unexplained reason, is to regulate and kill Jumpers.

I don't know about the story, but the teleportation and fighting was pretty cool. STAR WARS had light sabers. HARRY POTTER has their spells and $hit. This movie's effects were kinda cool, too. At least I thought so. Somehow, although there's no point, I got caught up in all the exotic locales and varying combinations of teleportation. It was kinda cool and different. Not like time travel, which has been done over and over. He moved through space instantaneously.

Hayden and Jackson have the inevitable showdown and, of course, he gets the girl setting up a sequel. Pretty predictable stuff, but visually stimulating. I liked this movie. Can you tell? Exceeded my expectations. Maybe that's the trick. Don't expect much.

I give this movie two hops, skip, and a...