Note: This review contains spoilers. If you’re not into that, you might want to skip the review until after you’ve seen the movie.
I remember seeing the coming attraction s for Jupiter Ascending. It looked like something that was epic. A woman finds out that she’s an important figure and is thrust into a position of power. It turns out that I was sort of right. I was mostly wrong, but I was sort of right. The movie was visually epic, but wasn’t much on the story.
Jupiter Jones is the woman in question. Her father died before she was born. She was born in the middle of the ocean and finds herself without a nation. Fast forward a few decades. Jupiter is cleaning houses with her aunt. She hates her life, and rightfully so. She’s always wanting money for something that she doesn’t want. She wants and advance, but can’t get it. Her solution? She lets her cousin talk her in to selling her eggs. At the last minute, she’s attacked and subsequently rescued by Caine.
Caine explains that Jupiter is genetically identical to the deceased matriarch of the Abrasax family. Said matriarch left her title and certain possessions to any human that matches her genetic code or something, meaning that Jupiter now owns Earth and that she’s some sort of queen. One of the kids wants to marry Jupiter, which she agrees to. It sounds kind of incestuous, since she’s an exact genetic match to his dead mother. But, it’s ok since he plans to kill her and claim Earth as his own. Yes, the kids each got planets of their own, but Earth is the mother lode. It will make its owner rich beyond their wildest dreams.
It turns out that instead of this grand epic I was expecting, it was mostly Caine fighting to save Jupiter. Yes, we got some nice visuals and stuff, but it wasn’t as strong on the story as I expected. Jupiter Jones ends up being more of a McGuffin than a hero. At first, I though that might be a bit harsh, bit it’s not. She’s only there to move the story along. She’s something pretty for the antagonists to fight over.
On that note, why would you leave something to someone who happens to end up with your genetic makeup? Even though there are a lot of planets with humans, it seems hard to believe that we’d end up with that kind of convergence, and that quickly to boot. Stuff like that always gets my attention. It seems very improbable. This isn’t even getting in to the fact that Jupiter has no idea what’s going on. (Jupiter was supposed to be the reincarnation of the Matriarch.)
This is one of those movies that I ended up finding major flaws with. As I said, Jupiter is a genetic match to the matriarch. Ok. I’ll admit that long shots come through. It’s not impossible. Still, why is she not freaked out at marrying her doppelganger’s son? She seems taken in by the whole thing rather easily?
For that matter, she seems rather at ease selling her eggs during the beginning of the movie. Yes, it’s a really nice telescope she wants, but this is her chance at having kids. She’ll be getting $15,000. Her cousin will be keeping $10,000, which is even more offensive. When she calls him on it, he offers up a lame excuse, which she accepts.
If you like action films and don’t like thinking much about the plot, this might be your movie. If you’re expecting something with a story or a reason to think about it afterwards, keep moving. There’s nothing for you to see here.
I remember seeing the coming attraction s for Jupiter Ascending. It looked like something that was epic. A woman finds out that she’s an important figure and is thrust into a position of power. It turns out that I was sort of right. I was mostly wrong, but I was sort of right. The movie was visually epic, but wasn’t much on the story.
Jupiter Jones is the woman in question. Her father died before she was born. She was born in the middle of the ocean and finds herself without a nation. Fast forward a few decades. Jupiter is cleaning houses with her aunt. She hates her life, and rightfully so. She’s always wanting money for something that she doesn’t want. She wants and advance, but can’t get it. Her solution? She lets her cousin talk her in to selling her eggs. At the last minute, she’s attacked and subsequently rescued by Caine.
Caine explains that Jupiter is genetically identical to the deceased matriarch of the Abrasax family. Said matriarch left her title and certain possessions to any human that matches her genetic code or something, meaning that Jupiter now owns Earth and that she’s some sort of queen. One of the kids wants to marry Jupiter, which she agrees to. It sounds kind of incestuous, since she’s an exact genetic match to his dead mother. But, it’s ok since he plans to kill her and claim Earth as his own. Yes, the kids each got planets of their own, but Earth is the mother lode. It will make its owner rich beyond their wildest dreams.
It turns out that instead of this grand epic I was expecting, it was mostly Caine fighting to save Jupiter. Yes, we got some nice visuals and stuff, but it wasn’t as strong on the story as I expected. Jupiter Jones ends up being more of a McGuffin than a hero. At first, I though that might be a bit harsh, bit it’s not. She’s only there to move the story along. She’s something pretty for the antagonists to fight over.
On that note, why would you leave something to someone who happens to end up with your genetic makeup? Even though there are a lot of planets with humans, it seems hard to believe that we’d end up with that kind of convergence, and that quickly to boot. Stuff like that always gets my attention. It seems very improbable. This isn’t even getting in to the fact that Jupiter has no idea what’s going on. (Jupiter was supposed to be the reincarnation of the Matriarch.)
This is one of those movies that I ended up finding major flaws with. As I said, Jupiter is a genetic match to the matriarch. Ok. I’ll admit that long shots come through. It’s not impossible. Still, why is she not freaked out at marrying her doppelganger’s son? She seems taken in by the whole thing rather easily?
For that matter, she seems rather at ease selling her eggs during the beginning of the movie. Yes, it’s a really nice telescope she wants, but this is her chance at having kids. She’ll be getting $15,000. Her cousin will be keeping $10,000, which is even more offensive. When she calls him on it, he offers up a lame excuse, which she accepts.
If you like action films and don’t like thinking much about the plot, this might be your movie. If you’re expecting something with a story or a reason to think about it afterwards, keep moving. There’s nothing for you to see here.
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