Jupiter Ascending Review

Jupiter Ascending

Release Date: 19th February 2015 - Australia

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Village Roadshow Pictures (in association with)

Anarchos Productions (in association with)

RatPac Dune Entertainment (in association with)

Distribution

Roadshow Films

Genre: Sci-Fi

Rating: M

Runtime: 127 minutes


Budget: $176,000,000

Box Office Gross: $183,987,723 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary

With signs predicting her future greatness, Jupiter Jones was born under a night sky. Now a grown woman, she dreams of the stars while cleaning other people's homes and endless bad breaks. Only when Caine, a genetically

engineered hunter, shows

up to protect her from

alien assassins does

Jupiter realise her great

destiny: the genetic

makeup of Jupiter makes

her the next heir to an

extraordinary legacy

that could alter the

balance in the universe.

Cast

Mila Kunis - Jupiter Jones

Channing Tatum - Caine Wise

Sean Bean - Stinger Apini

Eddie Redmayne - Balem
Abrasax

Tuppence Middleton - Kalique Abrasax

Douglas Booth - Titus Abrasax

Nikki Amuka-Reid - Diomika Tsing

Christina Cole - Gemma
Chatterjee

Nicholas A. Newman - Nesh

Ramon Tikaram - Phylo Percadium

Ariyon Bakare - Greeghan

Maria Doyle Kennedy - Aleksa

Frog Stone - Aunt Nino

David Ajala - Ibis
Doona Bae - Razo
Gugu Mbatha-Raw - Famulus
Edward Hogg - Chicanery
Night
Tim Pigott-Smith - Malidictes

James D'Arcy - Maximilian
Jones
Jeremy Swift - Vassily
Bolotnikov
Kick Gurry - Vladie
Larrisa Kouznetsova - Irina
Demetri Theodorou - Moltka
Lieve Carchon - Lyudmila
Oleg Nasobin - Zeno
Emily Warren - Mikka
Vanessa Kirby - Katherine Dunlevy
Spencer Wilding - Falque
Andy Ahrens - Dante Rothmere
Charlotte Beaumont - Kiza
Samuel Barnett - Advocate Bob
Terry Gilliam - Seal and Signet Minister
Hazel D'Jan - Shiro Miku

Crew

Writers/Producers/Directors - Andy &
Lana Wachowski

Executive Producers - Bruce Berman and
Steven Mnuchun
Executive Producer/Unit Production Manager - 
Roberto Malerba
Producer/Unit Production Manager - Grant Hill
Co-Producer/First Assistant Director - Terry Needham

Casting Director - Lora Kennedy

Production Designer - Hugh Bateup
Concept Artists - Julian Caldow,

Damien Canderle, Paul Chandler,

Geoffrey Darrow, Jonas De Ro, Daniel Dociu,

Philippe Gaulier, Dane Hallett, Will Htay,

Jared Krichevsky, George Hull, Jeff Julian,

Maciej Kuciara, Adam Kuczek, Michael Kutsche,

Raphael Lacoste, Dominic Lavery, Marek Okon,

Michael Meyers, Luca Nemolato, Allen Wei Ming,

Stefan Morell, Simon Murton, Virgo Paraiso,

Olivier Pron, Steffen Reichstadt, Tino Rodriguez,

Aaron Sims, Reid Southen, Kurt Van Der Basch,

Nick Ainsworth and Jessica Sinclair

Supervising Art Director - Charlie Revai 

Art Directors - Peter Russell,

David Allday, Su Whitaker, Mark Scruton,

Dominic Hyman and Peter James
Set Decorator - Peter Walpole
Property Master - David Chessman

Costume Designer - Kym Barrett

Costume Concept Artists - Glyn Dillon,

Igor Knezevic, Ed Natividad, Kimberely Pope,

Felipe Sanchez and Sharon Smith

Costume Armorer Designer - Patrick Whitaker
Makeup and Hair Designer - Jeremy Woodhead

Director of Photography - John Toll

Unit Production Managers - Michael Sharp,

Demetra Diamantopoulos and L. Dean Jones Jr.

Second Unit Director - Christopher Blasingame
Stunt Coordinators - David Leitch and
R.A. Rondell
UK Stunt/Fight Coordinator - Ben Cooke

Aerial Coordinator: Chicago Unit - Cliff Fleming

Special Effects Supervisor - Trevor Wood

Special Effects Supervisor: Stunt Wire Unit -

Jason Marsh

Special Effects Supervisor: Chicago Unit -

Don Parsons

Special Effects Coordinator - Jalila Otky
Special Effects Coordinator: Chicago Unit -

Clay Pinney
Creature Effects Supervisor - Mark Rappaport

Visual Effects Supervisors - Dan Glass
and Aleksandar Vishermirski (Uncredited)
Visual Effects Supervisor: Chicago Unit -

Jim Mitchell
Visual Effects Supervisor: Double Negative -

David Vickery

Visual Effects Supervisors: Framestore -

Michael Mulholland and Chris Lawrence

Visual Effects Supervisors: Method Studios -

Stephane Naze, Simon Carr and Matt Dessero

Additional VFX Supervisor - Richard Bain

Visual Effects Producer - Theresa Carrao

Visual Effects Producers: Framestore -

Annette Wullems and Charles Howell

Visual Effects Producers: Method Studios -

Christina Graham and Andy Foster

Visual Effects Design Consultant - John Gaeta
Visual Effects Consultant: Stunt Wire Unit -

Marc Kolbe

Digital Supervisors: Framestore - Rob Duncan,

Andy Walker, Harry Bardak and Andy Hayes
Animation Supervisor: Double Negative -

Stephen Aplin
Animation Supervisor: Framestore - Max Solomon

Previz Animation Supervisor - Scott Benza

Previz Supervisors - Andrew Moffett and

Glenn Burton

CG Supervisors: Method Studios -

Jean Colas Prunier and Douglas Bloom

Compositing Supervisors: Framestore -

Mark Bakowski and Carlos Monzon

Editor - Alexander Berner

Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor -

Dane A. Davis

Sound Effects Designer/Re-Recording Mixer -

Tom Ozanich

Sound Effects Designer - Eric Warren Lindemann

Re-Recording Mixers - Tom Johnson

and Juan Peralta

Foley Artists - John Roesch and

Alyson Dee Moore

Music - Michael Giacchino

Review

Based on what I've heard about JUPITER ASCENDING, it's a colossal space epic like The Phantom Menace. Both movies fell short of expectations due to the overreliance on visuals and plot incoherence. Unlike the Star Wars prequels that became an unexpected hit aside from its deficiencies, JUPITER bombed all of its income at the box office and didn't do well with criticism. Nothing more than this film could continue the directional efforts of The Wachowskis. Strictly speaking, the siblings have made a movie this disappointing since Matrix Revolutions - which was the lacklustre conclusion to the Matrix series. JUPITER is a confusing, over-the-top sci-fi melodrama with most parts not belonging. Some lines of wooden dialogue ruin the whole feature.

The acting from Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum and Eddie Redmayne puts me in no mood to see their bad portrayals. I could never expect an award-winning British actor like Eddie to appear in this unpromising feature. He is an exceptional actor for his Oscar-winning portrayal of Stephen Hawking. But Eddie couldn't even get a villainous character right! He can only do it in a whisper and yell like an overgrown spoiled child when angry. The only best performance I can compliment JUPITER is from Sean Bean, and it's a pity his talents got wasted as the film succumbs to being a big cluster of visual spectacles. 

The Wachowskis could do better work on the script, acting and editing. This movie is just moments away from being the worst science-fiction film, almost as bad as such films as Battlefield Earth. Nevermore will I go through watching JUPITER ASCENDING again. As much as I appreciated its visual design and creative approach, it's more common to a below-average film.

Star rating: (3/10) Disappointing

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