EB: The latest episode of Honest Trailers – a long running series on YouTube channel Screen Junkies – takes on what could have been one of the coolest, most original science fiction films of the decade but instead turned out to be really really bad: Jupiter Ascending.
That sound you’re hearing is a massive sigh of relief from David Lynch. He no longer holds the dubious distinction of producing the most expensive B-movie in the history of Hollywood.
Denis Murphy writes- Like the vast majority of you reading this, I'm a huge, huge fan of The Matrix. I didn't see it in the cinema at release, but after catching it on DVD soon after it quickly became one of my favourite movies of all time. The action, the atmosphere, the fighting, the music and, of course, Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith, made for one of the greatest movies of all time.
TRR: In The Matrix, the Wachowskis envisioned a world where humanity was enslaved — bred to be nothing more than batteries for a master race of artificially intelligent machines. Now, sixteen years later, the sibling directors' latest film once again imagine an Earth where the lives of its human populace serve a higher — ultimately nefarious — purpose. Only this time, the planet's savior isn't a man named Neo, but a woman named Jupiter Jones. There's one thing you should realize about Jupiter Ascending, though. And that's that its outlandish plot — a completely off-the-rails mash-up between The Matrix, the Star Wars prequels and The Fifth Element, which the Wachowskis have gleefully chocked full of genetically-engineered human-animal hybrids, evil corporations, dizzying space battles and gravity-defying acrobatics — is all but secondary to the visuals. And the result is as gloriously preposterous as it is mesmerizing. Does that mean Jupiter Ascending treads firmly on "so bad it's good" territory? That depends. Luckily, the Blu-ray dazzles with flawless picture and sound, so at least for sci-fi eye candy, you can't really go wrong.
Mila Kunis cleaning toilets is pretty much where the Wachowski Brothers are gonna end up if they're not careful...
Shut up Meg