The Message: How did that guy get on top of the Sphinx? His coat says he's cool and young. I bet the way he ends up up there is a cool story...with jumping.
The Truth: While a strong premise, the closer we got the the silhouetted figure, the more we lost interest.
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By no means the worst film that Hayden Christensen has been a part of, Jumper will be remembered as one of the first clear signs that George Lucas wasn't totally to blame for Anakin Skywalker's dull screen presence. For us, it was proof that all the potential in the world can still beat the odds, and result in a boring, misguided movie.
The premise was a strong one, with a lead character able to teleport to anywhere in the world he'd seen himself, including (but not limited to) the Sphinx. That kind of access to wealth, romance, and world traveling would absolutely turn any young man into the embodiment of sci-fi cool (thereby totally justifying those billowing coat tails). Even the name 'jumper' changes up what we'd typically expect from a movie about a teleporter.
Unfortunately, the action scenes we immediately imagined upon first seeing the poster are few and far between in the actual movie. In fact, the action scenes that do take place usually involve antagonists we're not sure are actual villains, electricity, and a disappointingly small amount of Sphinx-mounting.
On the whole, Jumper turned its potential into an experience, as our own Vic Holtreman put it, akin to "watching a first time driver trying to work a manual transmission." In short: as far from the slick, stylish and most importantly, edgy message conveyed by the poster as one could get.