Review of Jupiter Ascending (2015) by Gamed2Long — 08 Feb 2015

Remember the Matrix? Great movie. It was completely original. It had many layers and worked well at each one. Well this movie is completely original. Undoubtedly. But it only sorta works on one layer. And even that is iffy.

Any deeper meaning is either missing or completely botched. Visually the CG is spectacular. Mila Kunis is a fine leading lady. Sean Bean even has a small part. (Small spoiler, he lives) But the big problem is the plot, and somewhat the dialogue.

Many times during this movie I thought. How can something be so smart and so stupid at the same time? Like the gigantic space station which reacts violently with whatever is outside it as soon as it gets a tiny leak.

I'm watching amazing space ships travel to exotic words with bizarre aliens. And a disproportionate amount of screen-time is dedicated to Mila Kunis scrubbing toilets. What the heck? Maybe this movie would have worked better as a mini-series, so each of the stories they obviously wanted to tell could be given enough time and told well.

And you know what? Maybe then I'd skip the sappy love story episode, and the hard luck immigrant story and enjoy a Sci-Fi political story reminiscent of dune.