Jupiter Ascending
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: February 6, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
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Mixed or average reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
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8
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17
Negative:
15
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 4, 2015
It’s all very chaotic and entertaining, like a bizarre cult sci-fi TV show that somehow survived a threat of mid-season cancellation. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonFeb 3, 2015
This is one mad mess from start to finish... But the sheer ambition is impossible to ignore, and the sense of fun is infectious: you may fear for your sanity during Jupiter Ascending, but you’ll come out smiling. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyJoe McGovernFeb 6, 2015
Jupiter Ascending’s early cleverness dries up quickly, especially when Kunis is offscreen, leaving us with just another incoherent sci-fi spectacle. Read full review
50
SalonAndrew O'HehirFeb 6, 2015
It has the kind of jumbled, pseudo-spectacular, overdecorated digital design that the eye and mind can’t really take in. Individual shots can be gorgeous, but there are just too damn many of them, and the overall experience is the visual equivalent of eating an entire wedding cake. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaFeb 6, 2015
As for Kunis, she gets to wear some out-of-this-world couture, and gets to make her entrance at a marriage ceremony on a floating dais, kind of like Katy Perry at the Super Bowl. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerFeb 6, 2015
I enjoyed this movie more than the last two films from the Wachowskis, the interminable "Cloud Atlas" and "Speed Racer." On the other hand, "The Matrix" it's not. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla DargisFeb 5, 2015
With its nods to the original “Star Trek” and David Lynch’s proto-steampunk hallucination “Dune,” it seduces the eye with filigreed flourishes even as the mind reels from some of the mildewy storytelling. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranFeb 5, 2015
Jupiter Ascending is best during its purely visual moments, of which there are many... All of which makes it a shame that the only sense the Wachowskis can count on is their visual one. Read full review
50
New York PostLou LumenickFeb 5, 2015
An instant candidate for the so-bad-it’s-sort-of-great hall of fame, Jupiter Ascending is totally bonkers, a sort of black-velvet-Elvis mash-up of “Star Wars’’ and every other sci-fi/fantasy movie of the past half-century right up to “The Hunger Games.” Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsFeb 5, 2015
The movie doesn't really work, but the jet boots would be the envy of Iron Man, and they allow our hero, unwisely named Caine Wise, to speedskate through the air, leaving pretty little trails of light over downtown Chicago. Read full review
50
The DissolveChris KlimekFeb 5, 2015
Though it strives mightily to compete in every category, it’s not as funny as Guardians, as awe-inspiring as Interstellar, as thrilling as Edge Of Tomorrow, or as provocative as Under The Skin. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzFeb 4, 2015
It's blandly, often listlessly bad, check-the-blockbuster-boxes bad, just-out-of-film-school-and-shopping-a-tentpole-screenplay bad. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinFeb 11, 2015
Cinema-goers desperately need a fresh, unusual and franchise-free blockbuster to rally behind, but Jupiter Ascending isn’t it. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzFeb 5, 2015
The Wachowskis never lack for ambition. It's in the execution where they run into trouble. Read full review
40
EmpireKim NewmanFeb 3, 2015
Like too much filmed space opera, this is wonderfully imaginative when it comes to costume, art direction, special effects, spaceships and incidental alien creatures but stuck with old-hat character types and a resolutely unspecial storyline. It’s frequently entertaining, but as much for its terrible moments as its inspired touches. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyFeb 2, 2015
Even with all its familiar action tropes, less-than-fresh special effects and loopy plotting, the most depressing element in the Wachowski siblings' latest sci-fi mash is that, as they conceive it, human society has been around for more than a billion years but is still presided over by a rivalrous British-style royal family that treacherously behaves as if it were the 1550s. Read full review
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VarietyPeter DebrugeFeb 2, 2015
While the Wachowskis have always put their greatest emphasis on aesthetics, they allow the visual impulse to get the best of them here, investing so much attention in creating unique fashions, technology, architecture and design that they’ve blinded themselves to the huge logical gaps in their own story. Read full review
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