Jumper
Remember when Doug Liman’s teen-friendly flick about a dude with teleportation powers was supposed to be the next big action franchise? Yeah…that didn’t work out so well. Maybe that’s because in addition to its lazy plotting and jumbled action sequences, the movie doesn’t make any damn sense and contradicts itself on numerous occasions. For example, we’re told early on that Hayden Christensen first discovers his powers when he’s 12 or 13. But at the end of the movie, his long-lost mother informs him that he actually teleported for the first time when he was 2 or 3. Also, how the hell can Christensen just waltz back into his former hometown and pick up his aborted romance with a local hottie, who doesn’t seem that surprised to see him again despite his decade-long disappearing act? Maybe these questions would have been cleared up in Jumper 2: Gettin’ Jumpy With It. Thankfully, it looks like that movie will never, ever be made.
