JUMPER

Headline: ** Sci Fi Anti-Hero **
Title: JUMPER
Quality: * * Acceptability: -3
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LL
Violence: VV
Sex: S
Nudity: N

RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: February 15, 2008
TIME: 90 minutes
STARRING: Hayden Christiansen, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Bilson, Jamie Bell, Diane Lane, AnnaSophia Robb, and Max Thierot
DIRECTOR: Doug Liman
PRODUCERS: Arnon Milchan, Liucas Foster, Jay Sanders, and Simon Kinberg
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Stacy Maes, Kim Winther, Vince Geradis, and Ralph M. Viciananza
WRITERS: David S. Goyer, Jim Uhls and Simon Kinberg
BASED ON THE NOVEL BY: Steven Gould
DISTRIBUTOR: 20th Century Fox

CONTENT: (HH, PaPa, B, AbAb, LL, VV, S, N, AA, MM) Strong humanist pagan worldview with immoral pagan attitudes dominates, with some light moral elements where protagonist takes a moral stand against a young man helping him, but with strong implied anti-Christian elements where the main villain is a religious man who believes the protagonist is encroaching on the powers of an omnipresent God and wants to kill all such people like him; 16 obscenities (including one "f" word), three strong profanities and two light profanities, plus implied urinating; strong action violence includes fighting, villain ties people up, villain shocks people with electric shocks, villain tries to incapacitate people, buildings and objects crunched, vehicles crash, vehicles are teleported to hit people, teenager almost drowns, stacks of books suffer water damage, and villain stabs someone to death; two implied fornication scenes; upper male nudity and female cleavage; light alcohol use and adult bully appears drunk; no smoking; and, people get away with stealing, father and son have a somewhat bad relationship, bullying, and mother tells son she'll give him a head start before she alerts her people who want to kill him.

GENRE: Science Fiction
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Teenagers and adults
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SUMMARY: In JUMPER, a science fiction thriller, a religious fanatic wants to kill a young bank robber with the ability to teleport himself anywhere. JUMPER has obvious moral problems and implies that the religious fanatic is a Christian with a traditional view of God.

IN BRIEF:

JUMPER, a science fiction thriller, opens in a high school, where young David Rice and his sweetheart, Millie, are being bullied by another boy. David almost drowns when he goes to retrieve a gift thrown onto some pond ice. Panicked, David suddenly teleports himself, and some water and ice, into the nearby public library. Estranged from his father, whose wife left when David was five, David uses his newfound teleporting ability to leave home forever. Using his abilities, he starts robbing banks. Years later, David is a young adult flush with stolen money. Another teleporting "Jumper" has noticed David, however. So has Roland, the leader of a group of evil religious believers who want to kill all Jumpers because they are an abomination to God.

JUMPER has an interesting concept until it resorts to the cliché of evil Christians trying to hunt and kill people they view as an abomination to God. Also, the supposed hero gets away with stealing. This seriously dilutes the heroic qualities the filmmakers are trying to attach to him. The average moviegoer wants, and needs, heroes with redeeming qualities, not "heroes" who lie, cheat and steal.