"Jumper" * (out of four): This rare misstep from director Doug Liman, about a young loner who finds he has the power to teleport, ironically goes nowhere.

Anyone who's flown on an airplane in the last half century has surely dreamt of teleportation. Imagine: no more hours stuck in cramped cabins with kids kicking the back of your seat. No more delays, lost luggage or security strip-searches. The world itself is your backyard; the Eiffel Tower is as near as your living room couch. The possibilities, particularly for a well-executed superhero movie, are limitless. That movie it not "Jumper", director Doug Liman's messy adaptation of the Steven Gould novel. There's definitely potential here; on the surface, "Jumper" could be a good story. But the characters are so uninteresting and the love story so slight and strained that there's little to hold on to except the premise. Over the course of the film, you can literally feel the potential drain off the screen.

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