In a universe where human genetic material is the most precious commodity, an impoverished young Earth woman becomes the key to strategic maneuvers and internal strife within a powerful dynasty…
Jupiter Ascending is inane from first frame to last - the dialogue is so clunky, I wondered if George Lucas had been brought in to do the rewrite.
– David Edelstein,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
6 Feb 2015
rotten:
Don't even get me started on the aliens, many of whom would have been turned away from the cantina door in Mos Eisley.
– Christopher Orr,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb 2015
rotten:
The Wachowskis create a churning, swooping C.G.I. universe that's decorated to the corners of the frame without taste or imagination.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
9 Feb 2015
rotten:
A lot of people spent a lot of time and a lot of money making a lot of movie, but there's not much there.
– Christy Lemire,
ChristyLemire.com,
10 Feb 2015
rotten:
Where were the Guardians of the Galaxy when we needed them? If only they had prevented the disastrous atrocity that is "Jupiter Ascending" from infiltrating Earth's movie theaters before it was too late!