November 22, 2024 02:35 AM

‘Jupiter Ascending’ Review: When Visuals Make Up for the Story

Reading a "Jupiter Ascending" review is maybe one of the things you have to do before actually watching this space opera film. The film, which is written, produced, and directed by The Wachowskis, stars Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth, and Sean Bean, among others. This is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, and Roadshow Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand.

"Jupiter Ascending" already premiered last January 27 at the Sundance Film Festival, and will be shown starting February 6 in North America. So far, the movie has received mixed "Jupiter Ascending" review, with some praising the visual effects that are said to be world-building and original. However, some are entirely disappointed because to the story's poor plot.

To date, "Jupiter Ascending" review draw relatively low scores from known different movie review websites. A "Jupiter Ascending" review scores the lowest in Rotten Tomatoes with only 36% rating. Metacritic grades it a little higher than 50%, while IMDb analyzers give it a score of 6.4 over 10. Roger Ebert, a reliable American film critic and journalist, give it an understandable 2.5 over 5. A "Jupiter Ascending" review may help you to watch this movie or not. Anyway, it's your preference and decision that will matter.

Some Rotten Tomatoes critics left comments in the website. "Jupiter Ascending feels like a truncated, Cliffs Notes version of something that might have worked a lot better as a mini-series. Two hours is too short for this tale and the end result suffers greatly because of that restriction," James Berardinelli of ReelViews said. One was satisfied with the movie, saying "[The film] caters to and simultaneously subverts the expectations of both the young adult and hardcore sci-fi/fantasy genres, and emerges victorious over both."

Watch the movie and encourage (or discourage) a reader through writing a "Jupiter Ascending" review.

Tags
Mila kunis, Channing Tatum
Join the Discussion
Real Time Analytics