Jupiter Ascending (2015)

Jupiter Ascending (2015) - Movie Review

*Sigh* So much potential, such a waste.

This movie really infuriated me. The universe it is set in was just brimming with potential of a really epic franchise but instead we got a lame ass love story that almost reached Twilight level (Almost). There was no chemistry whatsoever between the two leads, everything was rushed, and even the acting felt emotionless. The movie went on for too long, had bad pacing and the villain sucked. I mean Eddie Redmayne (Stephen Hawking in Theory of Everything) is an awesome actor but boy oh boy was he horrible in this movie. Whatever he was trying to do with that phony cliche villain voice and style just didn't work.

That aside, there was some good stuff in the movie. Some characters I did like, like Sean Bean's. The setting was awesome. Action was actually well shot and good, did ran on for too long sometimes though. CGI was great, beautiful effects inhabited the screen and made weird technologies and alien planets come to life. Soundtrack was also pretty good.

All in all, another failure from the Wachowski siblings (Creators of The Matrix) and yet another film filled with potential wasted. But the movie as a whole wasn't particularly terrible, it just was disappointing, especially if you realize WHAT IT COULD HAVE BECOME.

6/10

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