The best part of Jumper came before the movie even began — a number of cool trailers, including the one for the new Indiana Jones flick. After that … well, it was pretty much downhill.

The movie will make you wish you could be
a Jumper … but only so you can get the hell
out of the theater.

I knew Jumper, a movie about a guy who can teleport, wasn’t going to be a good movie, but I expected it to at least have some cool special effects and action scenes. And there is a pretty good fight scene in the Coliseum, but everything else is pretty … blah. It’s only 90 minutes long, and I still found myself counting the minutes.

Of course, it doesn’t help that Hayden Christensen is the lead actor. He should stick to acting like a paralyzed guy, because he’s not suited for any role that requires him to emote. Rachel Bilson continues to climb my celebrity crush list, but she doesn’t have much to work with here. And Samuel Jackson … well, he’s doing his usual thing. But with bad hair.

Just like Christensen’s character, the plot jumps around leaving a lot of gaps in knowledge and background. The main character is tough to like and there’s a weird subplot with his parents that’s totally irrelevant except that, God help us, they’re trying to set up a sequel. Talk about jumping ahead.