The story begins with a shy high school boy, David Rice who has a crush on Millie (AnnaSophia Robb). He gives her a snow globe with the Eiffel Tower inside and soon after, bully Mark (Jesse James) takes it from her and throws it far onto an iced-over lake. Devastated, David chases after it and as expected, falls through the ice. Suddenly, he finds himself catapulted through the water, winding up in the Ann Arbor public library with books, debris and water all around him. Returning home, he is desparate to leave his life, miserable father (Michael Rooker) and “jumps” to freedom with empty pockets and a chance to change his life.
A couple of years later, Rice, (now played by Hayden Christiansen) has perfected the art of jumping and after stealing a lot of money from a bank vault by teleporting himself has the means to enjoy life. From his swanky apartment to travels around the world: Surfing in Fiji, napping atop Mt Everest, and lunching at the Sphinx in Cairo amidst the Great Pyramids of Giza, he has found an idealic life.
Yet the journey is just beginning…Rice finds that he is not the only Jumper when he encounters Griffin (Jamie Bell) and the two evade the Paladins, those who are sworn to kill all the Jumpers. Roland (Samuel L Jackson) is the main goon and is sensational looking with his platinum hair and grimacing face. Roland has been determined to capture and kill Rice since the bank vault heist and through countless trips to Italy, New York, Michigan and everywhere in between, it is Jumper vs. Paladin. In the end, of course Rice is victorious and the answers that he seeks are his next chapter: The search for his mother who left him as a young child. He comes across her in his travels, but her appearance is not yet explained.
Yet the journey is just beginning…Rice finds that he is not the only Jumper when he encounters Griffin (Jamie Bell) and the two evade the Paladins, those who are sworn to kill all the Jumpers. Roland (Samuel L Jackson) is the main goon and is sensational looking with his platinum hair and grimacing face. Roland has been determined to capture and kill Rice since the bank vault heist and through countless trips to Italy, New York, Michigan and everywhere in between, it is Jumper vs. Paladin. In the end, of course Rice is victorious and the answers that he seeks are his next chapter: The search for his mother who left him as a young child. He comes across her in his travels, but her appearance is not yet explained.
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