David Rice (Hayden Christensen who played Anakin Skywalker in “Star Wars”) is a hedonistic pleasure seeker with the amazing ability to teleport himself anywhere in the world. He uses this omnipresent gift to rob banks rather than benefit mankind.

David runs away from his Ann Arbor home at age 15. He returns eight years later and is reunited with his trusting love interest Millie (Rachel Bilson, who played Summer Roberts in “The O.C.”), who blindly follows wherever he leads her.

He is being pursued by Roland (Samuel L. Jackson), a mysterious white-haired bounty hunter posing as a government agent.

David tries to join forces with a fellow renegade with a thick British accent named Griffin (Jamie Bell from “Billy Elliot”). Diane Lane makes a few brief appearances as David’s mother.

The clever interspatial setup, ingenious editing and nifty special effects capture your attention at the outset. Based on a sci-fi novel by Steven Gould, the movie wears out its welcome when it turns into one endless chase around the world. The scenery changes so frequently it’s as if the director is flipping through television channels in an attempt to find something worthwhile to watch.

This farfetched story requires too much suspension of belief. The universe’s time-space wormholes that allow teleportation are never explained. The reasons behind the war raging for thousands of years between Jumpers and Paladins also remain an unsolved mystery.

The soundtrack relies on loud rock music to make sure you stay awake.

Review By:
Keith Cohen, "The Movie Guy"