Jupiter Ascending

Plot synopsis:
In the opening scene, Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) begins by talking about her parents. Her father was a Russian named Maximilian Jones (James D'Arcy). Maximilian met and fell in love with a woman named Aleksa (Maria Doyle Kennedy). They watch the stars together through his telescope. Later on, the two are expecting their child, which Maximilian wants to name Jupiter. Aleksa isn't too fond of the name. Two robbers break into the couple's home, and Maximilian gets shot. He dies in Aleksa's arms. Later on, Aleksa gives birth to Jupiter as she and her family are on a boat heading to America.In the present, the adult Jupiter works as a janitor living in Chicago with her roommate Katharine Dunlevy (Vanessa Kirby). Jupiter hates her job and life, yet she is not very ambitious or eager to do anything else about it.Three intergalactic bounty hunters - Falque (Spencer Wielding), Razo (Doona Bae), and Ibis (David Ajala) - are scoping out Jupiter's apartment, when they spot a man named Caine Wise (Channing Tatum) near the area. They realize that he is after Jupiter as well, and they go after him. Caine realizes he is being stalked, and he emerges from the building with his hover boots, defending himself with his shield and shooting back at the bounty hunters as they attack him. He flees the scene unharmed.Jupiter has dinner with her family and asks her uncle Vassily (Jeremy Swift) for money. He refuses to give her money and makes a rude remark that Jupiter is too smart for her own good and that's why she is unable to find a husband. Aleksa defends her daughter angrily, though the rest of the family seems to agree with Vassily. Later, Jupiter is looking at a telescope on eBay. Her cousin Vladie (Kick Gurry) comes in and suggests she go to the fertility clinic and donate her eggs for some money. Jupiter agrees.In space, the Abrasax siblings learn of Jupiter's existence. Their mother has died, and they now seek to inherit the earth as their own. Balem (Eddie Redmayne) awakens from a slumber after going through a successful planetary harvest. His brother Titus (Douglas Booth) is cavorting with other women in his lavish castle, while his aide Famulus (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) informs him that Caine, who has been sent by Titus, has located Jupiter. Kalique Abrasax (Tuppence Middleton) also has concerns over the inheritance of the earth.At the apartment, Katharine is getting ready to go out. A group of alien creatures called Keepers appear in the apartment and incapacitate Katharine. Jupiter takes a picture of them with her phone, and they lunge at her. Moments later, Katharine wakes up, and neither her nor Jupiter seem to know what just happened.Jupiter goes to the clinic under Katharine's name, which Balem is informed of. He orders his people to find Jupiter and kill her. The doctors put her on the bed and then levitate her. They probe her and know Jupiter's identity, and they attempt to kill her. Caine bursts in and kills the doctors as they reveal their Keeper form. He gets Jupiter out of there.Jupiter finds herself atop the Willis Tower. Caine explains to her that he is a genetically-engineered being made up of a splice between a human and a wolf. Jupiter asks why she was almost just killed, and Caine tells her that she is the rightful owner of the planet. He claims that human life began not on Earth but on another planet called Orus. Jupiter also has no memory of the Keepers finding her and her taking a picture of them, which Caine explains as them erasing her memory. They are beamed up by a spaceship hovering over them, when the bounty hunters show up and destroy the ship. Caine carries Jupiter as they fly over the city with his hover boots as the bounty hunters chase after them. Jupiter falls in the attack, but Caine catches her before she hits the ground. Caine hijacks a small ship and escapes with Jupiter.Caine and Jupiter drive away from the city, where Caine continues to explain the Abrasax family history. They have been splicing humans with other animals for ages, and are responsible for events such as the extinction of the dinosaurs. The two drive up to the home of Caine's former comrade Stinger Apini (Sean Bean), who is spliced with a bee. Stinger lives with his sick daughter. He and Caine were once skyjackers, but were let go following an incident, and now Stinger resents Caine. The two fight for a bit, when a swarm of bees appears. The bees surround Jupiter, but they never sting her. She moves her arms around them, and they fly around her. Stinger realizes who she is, and starts to refer to Jupiter as, "Your Majesty."Caine tries to contact the Aegis (space cops) to help them. The bounty hunters and a few Keepers come up across Stinger's home. They chase after him, Caine, and Jupiter through the field outside his home. Falque corners Jupiter and nearly kills her, but Razo shoots him in the back and kills him first. They capture Jupiter and ascend on their ship. Caine manages to latch onto the ship as it leaves Earth.Razo and Ibis bring Jupiter to the home of Kalique. She is friendly toward Jupiter and tells her that she is something of a genetic incarnation of Kalique's mother. She shows Jupiter a statue of her mother that looks exactly like Jupiter. Kalique says she is 14,000 years old, and her mother was 90,000 when she was murdered. Kalique walks into a bath and sheds her older image to a more youthful appearance. Stinger then shows up with the Aegis, led by Commander Diomika Tsing (Nikki Amuka-Bird). They order Kalique to hand Jupiter over to them.In order for Jupiter to properly stake her claim on Earth, she is forced to go to Orus and go through a process for registration. She goes through several windows with an android lawyer until she is printed with a tattoo on her wrist and officially allowed to claim ownership of Earth. In the meantime, Jupiter attempts to sort of flirt with Caine. He thinks he isn't good for her and compares himself to a dog, even though Jupiter claims to love dogs.Titus and his people take in Jupiter and apprehend Caine as Stinger hands them over to him in exchange for currency to help his ailing daughter. Titus and Jupiter have dinner together. Titus deduces that Jupiter has fallen in love with Caine, yet he still proposes to her. Afterwards, he shows Jupiter a room filled with thousands of vials that contain youth serums made from harvesting hundreds of dead humans. Jupiter is horrified by this realization.Caine is imprisoned and placed in a chamber by Titus and his people. He plans to kill Jupiter after marrying her so that he can get his claim to Earth. Caine is expelled into space with his hands cuffed behind him. He uses his hover boots to burn the cuffs off and grab a floating pack that contains a spacesuit that automatically forms itself around Caine's body and saves him from suffocation. He only has 40 minutes of oxygen, but the Aegis emerge from hyperspace and rescue him.The wedding is about to take place. Titus has his ring printed on his finger during the ceremony. Jupiter nearly has hers printed on when Caine comes crashing in on a ship into the cathedral. He comes up to the platform where Jupiter and Titus are and tells Jupiter that Titus plans to kill her. They hold Titus at gunpoint, but Jupiter only wants to go home.Meanwhile, Balem is told that Jupiter is still alive. His lizard-rat hybrid henchman Sargorn (Neil Fingleton) is sent to Earth with his team of lizard-rat men to break into the home of Jupiter's family and capture them. Jupiter goes home and realizes this, forcing her to return to space and save her family.Jupiter arrives at a mining facility on the planet where Balem resides. The Aegis are close behind her but are unable to enter because the planet is protected by a shield. Jupiter is brought before Balem, who shows her the family in the floor beneath them as they are floating and sleeping in stasis, while the henchmen get ready to splice into them. Using a special contract, Balem orders Jupiter to sign over her rights to rule over Earth if she wants her family to live. Realizing that either way, she and her family would die since Balem would harvest them on Earth, she refuses and smashes the contract.Caine, with the help of Stinger, breaches the planet's shield. Tsing tells him his mission could get him killed, but she adds that he is tremendously courageous. Caine breaks into Balem's facility and kills the lizard-rat people to save Jupiter's family. He pulls Jupiter out with a device that opens a hole beneath her to get her away from Balem. Outside, the facility starts to destabilize and collapse. Caine fights Sargorn while Balem tries to kill Jupiter himself. Caine kills Sargorn by pushing him into the hole he made and removing the device to close the hole around Sargorn's neck, crushing it.Jupiter's family is taken to safety while Jupiter fights back against Balem. Balem believes Jupiter is his mother reincarnated, and he admits that he murdered his mother, claiming that she told him she hated her life and wanted him to kill her. Jupiter shoots Balem once in the leg and whacks him across the face with a bar. The platform beneath them breaks slightly. Balem is unable to hold on and he plummets to his death. Jupiter falls but is rescued by Caine. With the help of the Aegis, everyone is able to escape the crumbling facility and get out safely.Jupiter and her family are taken back home, with their memories erased of their capture or any interaction with evil lizard-rat people. Jupiter continues to go about her work and has made breakfast and coffee for her family. They surprise her by bringing out the telescope she wanted. She then tells the family that she has a date. They all press her with questions like, "Is he Russian?"Jupiter joins Caine on the roof of another building. He has his wings restored to his back after his heroic deeds, and she has gotten hover boots of her own. Jupiter decides not to tell her family that she basically owns Earth. The two of them kiss and take flight over the city.

Tags: murder, cult, violence, good versus evil, psychedelic, action, revenge

Review:
Beautiful, well made fluff mind you, but at its core this movie is a steaming hot mess.Here's the plot from what I gathered: Mila Kunis is suddenly the majesty of the Earth and has to protect it from a bunch of rich douchebags that live in Jupiter's atmosphere who want to use it for harvesting grounds or something.
And they try to include multiple stories, like Mila Kunis' relationship with her family (boooring); Caine (Tatum) and Stinger's (Sean Bean) history (wholly underdeveloped), the whole villain arc...The villains in this movie are spoiled brats.
It's not worth trying to piece together every plot point they throw into the movie because it will just lead to confusion and disappointment, and eventually frustration when you realize how much potential was wasted in creating this massive universe.
It has a Star Wars vibe in parts, like the "royal" wedding scene and the space battles, but there were no good characters to experience this adventure with.
Unless you want to see some really great CGI for a couple hours, which can be found in much better places by the way, you won't find anything worth salvaging from Jupiter Ascending.
Sure there are some run of the mill plot points but i still really liked this movie, maybe people just love to hate these days.
I watch movies like i read books, even tho' i might not like the ending, i respect the storytellers right to tell the story they want to tell..
I'll be upfront and warn those contemplating watching Jupiter Ascending that you need to go in with low expectations to enjoy the film.
Unless your idea of what makes a film good is huge explosions, pretty characters prancing around in elaborate costumes and beautiful visuals.
There was potential to explore and mine all that richness for more stories but this is undermined by the weak delivery of the first film in what the studios were probably hoping would be a new franchise.While the plot of Jupiter Ascending was hackneyed, it had pretty interesting characters whose backstories would have been fun for the audience to explore.
Let's be honest, the basic plot line of The Matrix, the film franchise that the Wachowskis are renowned for, was pretty cliché too – the story of a Chosen One who comes out of nowhere and whose destiny is to save the world.
Jupiter Ascending's basic plot premise was this too but the treatment was a complete letdown.The cast is also one that is renowned for not just their good looks but also their ability to act.
At least Radmayne has The Theory of Everything that is out in the same season and that can probably help cushion the fallout from Jupiter Ascending.To the Wachowskis' credit, Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum have some chemistry.
Sometimes I really don't get IMDb and critics I avoided this movie like the plague as it had such low ratings by users and critics, so I thought it would be a complete waste of time But I've upgraded my home projector recently, and it supports 3D, and since then, I'm having fun in trying this format.
Wachowski's always make great visuals, so I jumped into it because of the 3D, but with very low expectations regarding the movie To my complete surprise, it turned out the movie was very good, in the sense it was highly entertaining The story has it's flaws, like any regular movie, but it's not a complete nonsense like some people try to sell you Can't understand how rubbish movies like Fast&Furious 7 and Iron Man 3 make millions at the box office and have such good ratings, where this one flopped and has such poor ones I mean even complete trash like Godzilla, Robocop (2014), John Carter and San Andreas have a higher score than Jupiter Ascending!!!
Then of course there's "Star Wars" which 10 year-old (and those who think like them) find deeply profound and meaningful.Purely as escapist entertainment, "Jupiter Ascending" is awesome.
Literally, just a few weeks before this movie was released, I had been thinking "Why haven't there been any fun space opera films recently?
We may never know the answers to any of these questions, but one thing is clear; Jupiter Ascending is the fun space opera movie that you need in your life right now.
And I went in knowing it was going to be a terrible story, but maybe I would enjoy the special effects and action scenes.
impossible to tell what was going on.I watch a lot of movies and have only walked out on a handful in my life, but I could not make it through more than 70 minutes of this ridiculous film.
I'd see it again!If you're considering watching this film, but hesitate after reading the same scathing reviews that I came across, just consider what interests you about the movie: if you're looking a movie with a complex plot and lots of underlying messages, this might not be the best choice.
Everything from explosions and action scenes, to space ships and settings, this movie had all the "eye candy" one could want.
Overall Jupiter Ascending lacked plot depth and great acting abilities, but it won it all back with groundbreaking visuals.
And she loved "Jupiter Ascending".This isn't a movie to watch for its philosophical message (even if there is one) or for its social commentary (even if you could find one).
This is a movie to watch and be immersed in a whole new world, be amazed by its beautiful landscapes, architecture, costumes, and by its cool gadgets (seriously, who wouldn't want flying boots like Caine's?) and spaceships.
This is a film to watch and indulge in your craziest childhood fantasies, like flying, going to another planet, being queen of the universe, you name it, and to be entertained.
It's classic Sci-Fi of high quality with action, spellbinding love story and of course fantastic sceneries.Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum play so well that the air sparks from their chemistry.
The story was brilliant and I loved the imagination it took to create the other world, the film didn't treat the audience like morons and explain everything excessively.
If you like Star Wars and science fiction movies, you will like Jupiter Ascending..
This idea that "time" is the most precious commodity in the Universe and that those who have the means to extend it to a never-ending cycle are those who do have real power in this new Universe that we discover.There is a lot of action, a love story and beautiful and awesome science fiction effects.
There are several new ideas in this movie that will make you ponder on life and its meaning.Here are mostly TV series and a few movies that I highly recommend, as I watched them and enjoyed them a lot.--------------------------------------------------------There are a few classics in science-fiction TV series:---Smallville---Star Trek: Enterprise---Babylon 5---Earth: Final Conflict---Battlestar Galactica---Star Wars (6 movies so far and counting)---Jupiter Ascending (a movie)all deserving 15 out of 10 because they are all very special TV series for the quality of their stories and for the amazing actors that they have.
I saw this film in the Milton Keynes Cineworld 4DX Super screen with a 3D viewing...Wow factor set to out of this world.The story is wonderfully imagined, set on many worlds with awesome space scenes showing beautiful star ships and galactic scale.The Plot and character development is very familiar and really is a missed opportunity to add some intelligence to what is in many ways a thought provoking rags to riches tale, putting into perspective the value of life.
The 4DX Super screen with 3D was quite expensive but, immersing and effective so it felt satisfying with such a visually stunning film.This film is a great date movie, fun for families, perfect for sci-fi junkies, thought provoking and good looking.I can only hope you have at much fun as we all did..
Jupiter Ascending isn't as successful as the Wachowsky's previous Cloud Atlas (which truly is a brilliant film), but it's far more effective than their greatest misfire, Speed Racer.
(Which somehow manages a 6.1 on IMDb.)If you like fast-paced space opera in the Star Wars mold, Jupiter Ascending is definitely worth a look..
There's a lot of negativity on this flick...and I don't understand it.I'm not always in the mood for a New York Times Critically Acclaimed Social Critique on Futurity and the Human Condition...Sometimes, I just want explosions, Flash, Boom, more Explosions and in the words of Colonel Jack O'Neill: Big-honking Space Guns.The movie was ambitious...but it was trying to bring to life something like a Graphic Sci-Fi Novel.
I mean, if you're gonna be that gestapo about every Sci-Fi movie, we'd just as well pan the Avengers with a thumbs-down for not accepting the Comic Book Universe rules of life.Jupiter Ascending is best described as a blend of Star Wars, The Fifth Element and Dune....(The First attempt--not the mini-series).The Bad Guy is Bad. The Evil Guy is Evil.
His appearance is more baffling than Mila's given the absolute ridiculousness of his character that is not only cardboard flat, but he is neither the "action-movie" bad guy that takes on the opposing action hero, but rather ends up fighting a girl hand-to-hand, a battle we know he's gonna lose from the beginning of the movie, despite the fact that Mila's only combat training comes from wielding toilet brushes.The music shows that the movie takes itself way too seriously for a flat action movie (the comic relief moments hardly have any comedy in them) as the score tries to enhance a non-existing drama.The Wachowski's seems to have gone out of their way to ensure it is utterly impossible to feel or root for any of the characters (good or bad).
The plot has no discernible structure, just the main character going from strange situation to strange situation, being acclimated and educated about the "truth" that's been hidden from humanity.But I enjoyed this movie for the setting: a fantastic world full of colorful aliens, space travel, and high-technology.
It was beautiful to look at, and anyone that's a part of the film world should know that not a single pixel, prop, or thread of clothing makes it to set without passing under the eyes of tons of creative minds, so believe me when I tell you more original creative thought went into this movie then you'll have the attention to notice.
The performances are great and interesting to watch, the action is extremely well choreographed, the plot is easy to follow, and the film is long enough that we get a full sense of the immensity of the world they created.
Channing Tatum and Sean Bean had good characters.Some of the action was over-the-top and drawn out way too long.Lots of violence, maybe too much for some people.I'd give it 2 stars.
The movie was entertaining, good paced, the action was good, the CGI was good, the bad guy was bad, the other bad guy was a little less bad (in a Disney movie he would have worn gloves), there were some not so annoying plot holes, there was some (mild) humor, there was chemistry between the two leads, it was predictable, and spoiler alert: Sean Bean does NOT die!!But who cares, this film delivered what I am expecting from such a movie: that when I will be watching it again on BluRay that I will not have the urge to skip or fast forward some of the scenes.
Put simply the movie has some serious work put into it, the acting is good and the characters themselves move the story along nicely.
I want to see more of this universe it's truly amazing!This is not a 5.5 star film, it should be more along the lines of a 6.7, for goodness sake Major Payne (1995) has a higher rating!Im giving the movie an 8 to offset the silliness of people giving it a 1!.
It probably wasn't intended as an homage to old fashioned pulp fiction, but that's the way it worked out - the same appeal as 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' - a comparison that will make the high brow guys keel over, but they are experts in thinking within the box.Bottom line is that I think most people reading this will have a good time at this movie, taken on its own terms.
Before I went to see it, I saw the reviews which were all very low stars, but after watching it, I realize those reviewers were idiots, who are either paid to give a bad review, or just do not know sci-fi, or rather the reality of life and the universe, in which the movie tries to show -- that life is more bountiful than what humans have been taught through ignorant and narrow minded religious philosophies.
There were some good sets/action scenes/costumes/effects etc (although nothing fresh or particularly exciting) - but the storyline and script were really bad - and the acting was no better.With the exception of Channing Tatum, the entire cast were pretty feeble, if not hammy.
Mila Kunis does a great job overall except when it comes to survival action scenes, where she doesn't seem to put the physical effort needed to make her fight for life look real.
The movie goes a different route with the anime The Wachowskis have proved to love with their most iconic film the Matrix, I think I spotted influences of neon genesis, Gundam and other mech anime.The action sequences were really good and there was a lot of them from beginning to end.
Night Shyamalan with After Earth, The Wachowskis are playing the Hollywood game here and like with After Earth, producing so-so results that loosely resemble what got them to the big time in the first place.But overall The story's OK and it has a lot of effects driven action sequences.
It's not that the film is too hard to follow, but I find myself wanting to see it again - just to more fully appreciate the depth of the characters and the richness of the story – and to again enjoy the movie's spectacular visual effects.
As I watched and evaluated this film, Jupiter was most definitely ascending – all the way to an "A"..
I am considering invoicing the Wachowskis for the time I wasted watching this drivel.On the plus side, the state of the art for SFX means that all sorts of good stories might finally make it to the big screen, things that were thought to be unfilmable before.
I have no idea why such bad reviews but I enjoyed the movie enough to have seen it multiple times.
The film was relentlessly imaginative and the world it established was fascinating and original, far more so than the sci-fi/fantasy universes set up in any of the Marvel or comic book movies of recent years.
When it comes to acting, OK, let's say it is not the best or Oscar worthy performance but, hey tell me a sci-fi action movie which has very good acting or remembered because of the performance of the actors.
Yet, this movie has fairly good acting; especially Channing is way much better than I thought he would be.
Finally, if you want to watch an amazing and very entertaining sci- fi movie with incredible action scenes, go and see it for yourself...do not listen or read the haters or critics..
I almost did not see Jupiter Ascending, and it would have been a shame to miss it on the big screen.Negative reviews had me convinced it was a movie with a good premise, great CG, but otherwise suffering from an insufferable script and poor character development, and did not meet the litmus test as compared to other sci-fi films.But, a last minute gut call got me to the theater.
Story as good as many other big Sci-fi films.
and what I mean by that is that this is a film about rich people that is just an embarrassment."Jupiter Ascending" is the latest film from the Wachowskis and, despite what you read about their under-rated previous efforts ("Speed Racer," "Cloud Atlas"), this one truly is.utter disaster.Remember when Hollywood seemed to start putting effects ahead of stories and starting insulting the viewers intelligence until some directors (read: Cameron, Nolan) started injecting mindblowing effects into incredibly intelligent stories.Well, guess who is insulting our intelligence again.What this movie is "about," and I use the term loosely, is a young woman in Chicago who cleans toilets for a living who finds out she is actually a genetic descendant of the most powerful dynasty in the universe and simply needs to claim Earth as her own, which she left to herself thousands of years prior, before her "son" harvests humans to make a potion that keeps other beings in the universe young You got that?
The structure of the movie, is similarly terrible largely due to its incoherent plot.Overall, despite its visual grace better experienced in IMAX 3D, the Wachowski siblings directs a colossal mess in Jupiter Ascending, which serves as both candy for the eye...
Now I know how to define "space junk": Jupiter Ascending, a science fiction film from the Wachowskis that bears no resemblance to their Matrix.
It should either be longer or better yet, a two part movie.I have read a few reviews and as always some people love one scene, some hate it.
But it is very entertaining and even better than many other sci-fi movies if you watch it without great expectations..
(The Fifth Element comes to mind.)There's comedy in this movie, which really adds to the touch of humanity that Mila Kunis' acting brings to the film.
Another thing I liked a lot about the movie was the acting of the supporting characters.
I never felt like that while watching Jupiter Ascending and in fact, I had plans after the movie and had forgotten them all while enjoying the flick!