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Year:	2008
Country of origin:	USA / Canada
Director:	Doug Liman
Genre:	Teleportation tedium
Starring:	Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson and Jamie Bell
Rating:	2/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489099/
Tagline:	Anywhere is possible.
Favourite line:	None worth mentioning

Hayden 'Anakin Skywalker' Christensen stars in this almost laughably poor sci-fi action thriller.

The plot:
That walking slab of oak Christensen plays David Rice, a young man who is one day sent plunging through the ice on a frozen river, to be swept away by the current. With no way back to the surface, and certain death apparently his fate, extraordinarily he discovers he has the ability to teleport - now there's a stroke of luck - and beams himself back, filthy water an' all, to the town library.
So begins his dramatic life, which seems to be going along just swimmingly until Samuel 'shock of white hair ' Jackson turns up at his apartment and tries to electrify him to prevent him from teleporting.
See, Rice is a jumper, and he's not alone, the gift of teleportation having existed for centuries. But where there's a yin, there's a yang, a force against the jumpers, determined to eradicate them from the face of the Earth. Quite why is never made clear. Just jealous, I guess.

Tedious to a fault, this develops the idea of teleportation within the first 5 minutes, then elects to go precisely nowhere with it.
Similarly with characterisation and, for the most part, plot.
Dull as toilet brush bristles, this was so inept it had me pining for the good old 'jaunting' days of The Tomorrow People.