It's tough not to take a bit of guilty pleasure from the opening
of WSJ critic Joe Morgenstern's takedown
of the new film, Jumper:
"Jumper," based on the novel by Steven Gould,
re-defines--downward-- the notion of dreadful. It does so by
dispensing with everything a movie needs for a shot at being merely
awful. Dramatic development? None. Entertaining dialogue? Ditto.
Internal logic? Puhleez. Intriguing characters? No characters, thus
no intrigue. Interesting performances? Essentially none, though
with an asterisk.