Jupiter Jones lives in Chicago, working for a maid service with her mother. Raised by her widowed mother, Jupiter misses her father, often looking up to the stars as if she feels desitned for important things. Her intiuition turns into fact when Caine, a genetically engineer soldier from another world, arrives on earth to track her down. Jupiter soon enough learns that the Earth is just a miniscule part of a much bigger world and her genetics give her the rights to an extrodinary inherentage that leads the powerful Abrasax siblings bearing down on her, the stake of the cosmos hanging in the balance. The Wachowski's Jupiter Rising is a big, silly space opera that features a muddled story and Channing Tatum's bad makeup work. While I wish the film would have embraced its b-movie storyliine a bit more, Jupiter Ascending is a movie that is kinda fun, considering the magnitude of the story. Say what you wil about the Wachowskis, and I could say a lot, they are still very capable of creating exhilarating action sequences and Jupiter Ascending does have plenty of those. Channing Tatum skates around the sky in his space boots with b-movie glee, and the aesthetic of the film is impressive. It's kinda a shame that this movie is going to laughed outta the theaters because the VFX designers for Jupiter Ascending did a fantastic job. This epic space world is beautiful designed and creative, being impressive eye candy for a script that struggles. Jupiter Ascending does have an obvious commentary about the 1% - the powerful taking advantage of the less fortunate and everyone having the same right to live. It's an interesting story arch but once again the script can be downright painful at times in spelling out the film's intentions. Jupiter Ascendings characterizations are bland, its script is poor, and it's incredibly silly but yet I found myself kinda enjoying the film, simply due to the vast world it creates and the no shame, absurdity of the storytelling.
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