JUPITER ASCENDING: A MOVIE REVIEW (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by ufodigest , Thursday, February 12, 2015, 17:48

By Deanna Jaxine Stinson

Jupiter Ascending is a science fiction movie with a Cinderella theme. The main actress Jupiter Jones is played by Mila Kunis. The role of her star crossed lover is played by Channing Tatum. Jupiter is an Earth born girl who lives life out as a parentless girl adopted by an astrologer who predicts incredible things for her because she has the sign of Jupiter rising in her charts at 23 degrees. Jupiter finds this hard to believe because she is a maid and cleans houses for a living, a very lowly job in America.

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD

I was very disappointed with the casting choices of the two lead roles in this movie. I have always loved science fiction movies for their unique, creative and forward focused thinking and it felt like they were stuck on present day ideals. It is hard to picture a place in the future in another world with the face of these two actors who show little emotion or facial expression that I have seen already in a ton of other movies. There is many talented actors that could have brought this part to life. They may be unknown but I feel like Mila did not do the part justice…If she wasn’t already famous she could never have possibly been cast into this. Channing Tatum also wasn’t wearing his shirt for most of the movie and not that I don’t appreciate men but this isn’t Magic Mike for crying out loud it didn’t make sense in the scenes where he was shirtless. Can we please see some new faces especially in science fiction? We are talking about apocalyptic annihilation of humanity and I didn't see one tear. It was a total detachment from character; could this also be the fault of the directors?

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