Jupiter Ascending greeted the blockbuster season of 2015 with a resounding wet-fart of acclaim and financial devastation for Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow alike. This film had the hopeless (dis)honour of being another 'this is like Star Wars but different' space opera, and that comparison has itself become a tired cliche on its own. Why not compare Jupiter more to The Matrix or Jodorowsky's never made Dune, or something that's not just an uninspired comparison which was gonna be a Herculean task to actually achieve successfully in the first place?
The film as is, all its history aside, is dumb time-burning fun that has surely become an impressionable ten-year-old's favourite film of all time (who can tell when or whom these films strike a chord with?); and oh boy the screenplay is an inspired hot mess of flashy action and sci-fi reincarnation tropes mixed in with traces of ancient astronauts and pretty faces conveniently protected by fresh servings of deus ex machina and sci-fi pew-pew-pew all throughout its runtime.
Jupiter Ascending is a flashy guilty pleasure of a space opera; it prioritises vibe over story, and action over character development, and the cliches almost make the film out to be an ironic comedy for the ages rather than the deep drama it thought it was gonna be.
There is still an ever-evolving playbook for space-operas at the movies: and Jupiter Ascending is just one costly drop in that ever-growing stream of high-concept sci-fi flicks waiting to be consumed by hungry viewers.
This so-bad-it's-good blockbuster gets 5/10 IMDbs. 2.5/5 stars. Surely this was done INTENTIONALLY as a write-off for the companies at play? Who knows?
The film as is, all its history aside, is dumb time-burning fun that has surely become an impressionable ten-year-old's favourite film of all time (who can tell when or whom these films strike a chord with?); and oh boy the screenplay is an inspired hot mess of flashy action and sci-fi reincarnation tropes mixed in with traces of ancient astronauts and pretty faces conveniently protected by fresh servings of deus ex machina and sci-fi pew-pew-pew all throughout its runtime.
Jupiter Ascending is a flashy guilty pleasure of a space opera; it prioritises vibe over story, and action over character development, and the cliches almost make the film out to be an ironic comedy for the ages rather than the deep drama it thought it was gonna be.
There is still an ever-evolving playbook for space-operas at the movies: and Jupiter Ascending is just one costly drop in that ever-growing stream of high-concept sci-fi flicks waiting to be consumed by hungry viewers.
This so-bad-it's-good blockbuster gets 5/10 IMDbs. 2.5/5 stars. Surely this was done INTENTIONALLY as a write-off for the companies at play? Who knows?
