The next movie to be reviewed will be "Jupiter Ascending" movie. I will be listing some good and bad things about the movie while kind of giving it a summary of what happens. There is a lot of ****SPOILERS **** in this review so if you haven't seen the movie yet I wouldn't read this further until after watching it.
The movie starts off with a mother and father who have bad luck because a mob comes in and kills the father. At this time the mother is pregnant with a daughter who will one day be known as Jupiter Jones. Mila Kunis' character known as Jupiter Jones who was predicted to be someone special in the future will ultimately end up being an important person in the movie. In the meantime Mila lived with her mother and a family who would take care of them on the notion that they would go around cleaning houses and especially toilets for money. We would say that the set up in the movie was a good one and it catches the audience from the start.
In the next part of the movie one of the main villains known as Balem Abrasax was played by Eddie Redmayne who was the sole owner of the planet Earth. At first glance this sounds kind of odd and as the movie progresses you tend to understand what is going on. Balem is a villain who finds out that Jupiter Jones is the rightful owner of the planet earth so he dispatches his goons to go and eliminate her from ever claiming her rightful possession of Earth itself. Balem though is surrounded by two siblings: One brother and one sister. The one brother is known as Titus played by Douglas booth and a sister known as Kalique played by Tuppence Middleton. All three siblings were born from a Mother who was a Queen in a higher royal family that would "harvest" people from planets to stay alive for thousands of years. At this point of the movie it starts to get weird and I don't think the actor is at fault for that but it's quite possible. Balem seems too overplay his part as a villain and in some parts of the movie it makes you wonder why they made these scenes so over the top. I normally don't have a problem with Villains but Eddie Redmayne seemed to have taken his part overboard. Again that could be the Director's fault or the actors fault but in either case the Villain character should have acted differently.
At the beginning of the movie though Jupiter Jones is in trouble and "Caine" played by Channing Tatum comes to her rescue. The beginning part of this rescue starts off with a lot of aerial combat with ships and lasers so that kept me entertained throughout the movie. To be honest maybe some more combat in the 2 hour long movie would have done the movie more justice than a lot of the dialogue. So in short here the movie has a lot of action sequences to keep you entertained but some parts of the movie lacked proper dialogue.
Anyways Caine ends up rescuing Jupiter Jones and meeting up with an old friend named "Stinger" played by Sean Bean who has been hiding out in Earth after he was stripped of his wings as a commander of Caine's group. Stinger took the blame for what Caine did a long time ago by attacking a person randomly and it cost him his position. I would say that this part of the relation setup between Caine and Stinger was good and is part of the reason why the movie was enjoyable. These actors seemed to have a good type of synergy between themselves as ex-hunter fighters and it pretty much made the movie bearable. They meet up and then they are tasked with Jupiter going to the galaxy zone where all higher royals go to claim their estates -- in the case of these royals their planets like earth for example. Jupiter goes there and claims Earth by going through a DMV like center. I will say that this was an odd part of the movie but if you have seen other Wachowski brothers' movies like "The Matrix" then it is not all that out of this world unbelievable.
The movie then entails two different plots one where Titus attempts to persuade Jupiter Jones to marry him so that he may finish off his mother's work. Ultimately it is a lie and Titus' main plan was to murder Jupiter after the marriage arrangement. As other parts of the movie Channing Tatum's character Caine comes to Jupiters' rescue. The other part of the movie entails Balem Abrasax rescuing Jupiter's Mother and family and forcing her to sign the planet Earth over to him. In the end like before Caine comes to rescue Jupiter in the end and the movie ends with some action sequences. I will say that I kind of liked the plot but thought that it could have been slightly better. By that I mean maybe the Wachowski brothers could have had all the siblings on the same side achieving the same goal to all be rightful owners of Earth. By splitting up the movie that way it kind of ruined it for me but nonetheless what they did too with the action in between was pretty good.
In conclusion Jupiter Ascending was a pretty good movie. If you are into a lot of action and fighting then it lives up to that but don't expect the best movie dialogue and character development you will ever see. Go into the movie thinking this is a space movie with a lot of action in it. The dialogue being changed around slightly with a different plot may have made the movie a better success. I will say though if you are those type of sci-fi fans that love space movies then this won't be all that bad. Just please don't go in the movie expecting "Star Wars" or "The Matrix" and you will be just fine. A few changes in the acting like from the villain Balem Abraxas played by Eddie Redmayne would have done huge justice to improve the movie. Other than those faults listed above it was a decent movie to see. What would you have changed about the movie? Was it a pretty good movie to sit down and watch through?
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