Jupiter Ascending 2015

Reviews (14)

1. W

   Wes 8 月 25, 2026

   eddie redmaynes performance in this is the sleep paralysis monster i see every night at 3am

   494 5
2. D

   davidehrlich 8 月 25, 2026

   every generation gets the WATERWORLD they deserve. i had just forgotten the Wachowskis were capable of making anything so soulless. restless imagination without an iota of wit, character, or heart. the action is dreadful, the acting even worse (eddie redmayne goes full Zorg in a performance that will last a lifetime)… spectacular failure > regular failure, to the point that i can’t genuinely hate this movie, but it’s hard not to think that this is a mortal blow for big budget original sci-fi. woof.

   648 8
3. S

   Sean Gilman 8 月 25, 2026

   I don’t know what to make of a world that rejects this and adores every Marvel movie. Things don’t make sense to me.

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4. S

   sydney 8 月 25, 2026

   my 9 year old kid said this is better than star wars, and who am i to argue with someone smarter, more open minded, and more perceptive than me?

   779 10
5. M

   matt lynch 8 月 25, 2026

   The Wachowskis steadfastly refuse to make stale violent power fantasies for teenage boys, which seems to piss everyone off. Here you have a young woman who becomes a heroine not because she picks up a gun or is “as tough as a man”, whatever that means, but because she chooses not to have her future determined by class or capital (even if it is space-class and space-capital) or really anyone else but herself, wrapped up in an unapologetically dorky homage to trashy sci-fi paperback covers. It’s a dressed-up fairy tale, an intergalactic “Cinderella”, except she doesn’t win by becoming someone’s wife, and if she’s ever the damsel in distress it’s because she decides not to kill or act selfishly. Plus it has Channing Tatum on rocket skates fighting a lizard man. Not even a hair sillier than GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY or eight installments of Harry Potter bullshit.

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   maria 8 月 25, 2026

   you gotta know something is wrong with a movie when sean bean doesn’t die in it

   653 20
7. J

   Josh Lewis 8 月 25, 2026

   A trashy, bizarre, bloated space opera. A pulpy sci-fi novel, complete with lizard men and rocket boots, done with utter conviction in its bleeding heart dorkiness. It’s massive, overly-ambitious, totally nonsensical, and infallibly sincere about its insane world-building design and strangely-calibrated performances. Also just genuinely weird and expressive in ways big movies aren’t really allowed to be anymore, and thus destined to be made fun of by the most boring people on the planet. We don’t deserve the Wachowski sisters.

   663 6
8. D

   demi adejuyigbe 8 月 25, 2026

   This movie is off-the-wall whackadoodle and unfairly maligned. Is it “good?” Not really. It’s a massive cyberpunk hodgepodge of every sci-fi blockbuster of the past few decades wrapped in the skin of the Star Wars prequels. But, does it still fucking rule? Yes! It’s a massive cyberpunk hodgepodge of every sci-fi blockbuster of the past few decades wrapped in the skin of the Star Wars prequels! The villains are harvesting human bodies for youth on some Peter Thiel shit! Channing Tatum plays a genetically-engineered military half-wolf! It’s a DeviantArt project come to life! It’s confusing and campy as fuck, and I have nothing but the utmost respect for the Wachowskis for absolutely going for it. No other working filmmakers deserve…

   1,152 18
9. S

   sydney 8 月 25, 2026

   “my mother never cleaned a toilet in her life” “maybe that was her problem” rich capitalists want to murder us and bathe in our souls. our greatest weapon is the willingness to sacrifice oneself to protect those weaker than you, and true love!!! plus spaceships!!! imagine thinking this is a bad movie lol

   634 8
10. P

    Patrick Willems 8 月 25, 2026

    For every element that doesn’t really work, there’s a scene where, like, Eddie Redmayne screams at his dragon man henchman in a factory inside Jupiter and I can’t help but respect that

    1,371 8
11. M

    mia lee vicino 8 月 25, 2026

    channing tatum plays a genetically engineered “military wolf” who zooms around in zero gravity roller skates because his wings were cut off (everyone knows wolves have wings). “bees are genetically designed to recognize royalty” is something that sean bean, who is genetically spliced with a bee, has to say with a straight face. the main plot point is that a group of 14000-year-old royal alien siblings are attempting to either marry or murder their 25-year-old human mommy. but the nuttiest part is in the first 20 minutes … when mila kunis tries to sell her eggs to buy a $4000 telescope on ebay

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12. S

    Sean Fennessey 8 月 25, 2026

    The only good Eddie Redmayne performance.

    402 13
13. D

    Dark Jedi 12 月 22, 2017

    It appears that I am going to disagree with a fair number of people when I say that I quite liked this movie. Sure, if you expect some deep story with a lot of moral cleverness in it you are going to be disappointed. This is an interesting story but one that hangs together by a fairly fine thread.

    To me it is a decent enough story that is propelled by a decent enough action and absolutely wonderful scenery. Yes, I agree with everyone saying that it is a bit of a B-story. It has many issues and barely hangs together at times.

    However, if you try to ignore that for a while and just try to view it as a piece of, fairly fast paced, visual entertainment, well then it hits the spot quite well. It is frequently beautiful to watch. The action sequences are not bad and the story is, if nothing else, certainly not the usual thirteen to a dozen B-movie repeats. The acting is, well, also generally of B-movie quality but it is not downright bad and, once I got in the right mindset for the movie, it did not disturb me.

    On the whole I quite liked this movie but I guess you have to be a bit of sci-fi fan, with an emphasize on visuals, to do so.

14. R

    Reno 9 月 24, 2015

    > One liner, somewhat richer, but only a decent entertainer.

    A sci-fantasy directed by the Wachowskis of ‘The Matrix’ fame. Theirs lowest point ever as the filmmakers, but still not that bad flick. The movie lacked in many areas, and one of those is failing to have at least one stunning fight/war scene. I know it was only the beginning and there will be a sequel, maybe ends as a trilogy, but the story was very weak for an intro movie.

    Looks like one-liner, precisely to say kind of similar to ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’. I mean in a thin idea, the whole story takes place. Something like a space expedition for a chosen one, hopping from a planet to planet, seeking answers and protection. The title character, Jupiter Jones, played by Mila Kunis, with the help of the Caine Wise (Channing Tatum) takes a risky venture when their lives were threatened. Finding who’s behind and other truth brings the end of the narration, which runs for just over a 2 hour.

    Performances were okay, but kind of doubt their inclusion in the project. Mostly the cast was the younger ones, maybe except, Sean Bean. Many of them are only the recently emerged stars. So it was a big responsibility in a big budget movie and they did it. But the movie should have had at least one senior artist. The graphics were somewhat rich, and again the absence of the quality scenes and stunts lets the movie fall.

    6½/10