Is Jumper a Time Travel Movie?

Jumper looks like an exciting sci-fi/fantasy movie, and I'm looking forward to seeing it. For the most part, I like sci-fi/fantasy overall, and I love time travel movies. Whether it's Back to the Future, Planet of the Apes, or The Butterfly Effect, I'll watch them over and over. In fact, a friend of mine told me the other day that he wished that he could go back and tell his earlier self to learn Mandarin, and I mentioned that he couldn't do that because it violated the second rule of time travel.

I've been thinking about Jumper since I first saw a trailer several weeks ago. Strictly by chance, I was in a discount bookstore two or three years ago and purchased a paperback edition of Stephen Gould's Jumper for 2 or 3 dollars. It was a fun book to read. I'm looking forward to watching the movie, but I have some trepidation because the reviews I've seen have not been good, and I'm one of those who thinks that films, in general, don't live up to their books.

But I'm not sure whether Jumper is a time-travel movie, even though the space-time continuum is implicated. The guy visualizes a place and wills himself there, whether across the street or across the country, and he instantly ends up at that place. I think it may be a time travel movie because his leaps consumes no time. But it can't be a time travel movie to the extent that he travels neither to the past nor to the future. Jumper will be categorized as a general sci-fi/fantasy film, but I don't think that it would be a stretch to tag it a time travel movie as well. Time travel fans would probably appreciate it.