Hayden Christensen stars in this pointless movie about a guy with the ability to teleport and a disgruntled Samuel L Jackson who wants him dead.  Why?  Who knows.  The movie basically only tells us that jealousy could be the reason.

First of all, this is a movie with no plot and no character development and yet it wants to be a trilogy.  Hayden Christensen is miscast and Samuel Jackson plays his normal Jackson character.  Most films Jackson show poor acting ability yet he continues to get jobs.  In most action films we don’t need a lot of plot, but we do need a reason to continue watching past the initial cool editing effect of teleporting.  This movie, surprisingly adapted from a book, has none of these qualities and I’m pretty sure they did not go film in all the exotic locations that they attempt to portray.

We know that the Jackson character is part of the ‘paladins’ who want to kill ‘jumpers.’  The only reason we are given is jealousy, but we are also told there are many more of them, so why do they want them dead?  Christensen’s character is doing very little harm except for the breaking of a few laws to rob banks so he has money to use, but he hurts no one in the process.  Seems like something much more diabolical was going on that the audience was not told.  Even the fellow ‘jumper’ he meets has a whole plan of how to get away from the paladins.  Why?  We are never told.

Jackson needs to do serious roles like Changing Lanes and Christensen needs to do more roles like Life as a House or Shattered Glass. Neither of them should attempt this type of tongue in cheek action like both sadly attempted in the recent Star Wars Episodes 2 and 3.  It’s bad enough we have no plot and the script provides no insight into the actual characters, but the for the actors to not give anything to these empty roles just gives this movie no redeeming quality except for the concept.  Don’t waste your time, jump to something better instead.

Similar recommended titles: Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Bourne Identity