Jupiter Ascending Reviews
“Plot holes” are there, sure, but the imagery on-screen is so stirring it’s hard to care.
| Feb 7, 2025
"Jupiter Ascending" is an utter mess of missed opportunity and misguided world-building.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 4, 2023
…of certain interest to connoisseurs of how large amounts of money can be turned into producing liquid steam-punk gibberish…
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2023
Another Wachowski movie whose ambition is only surpassed by its flaws.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022
Fresh because it considers a network of varied planetary systems so expansive that at any moment something random and new from any number of cultures (or subcultures) could appear onscreen, and without need or desire for adequate explanation.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 12, 2022
One of the 2010s worst sci-fi movies.
| Mar 25, 2022
Jupiter Ascending is a galaxy-load of fun the kind of movie audiences dont get anymore because, for most filmmakers, this is too hard a task to accomplish.
| Feb 11, 2022
Jupiter Ascending kicks February off in suitably bombastic style.
| Oct 7, 2021
Jupiter Ascending is a dizzying marvel of imaginative space opera from Chicago's reigning visionaries.
| Sep 10, 2021
Cobbled together with random ideas from the last thirty years of science-fiction cinema.
| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 4, 2020
By the end of Jupiter Ascending, I became convinced that the Wachowskis had crafted, in some weird way, an almost absurdist domestic violence prevention film.
| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020
Jupiter Ascending is a spectacular mess.
| Original Score: C- | Jul 16, 2020
No amount of visual pyrotechnics, no matter how spectacular, can save such a tired, weak story.
| Original Score: C- | Jul 6, 2020
I don't think I can recommend it.
| Original Score: 5/10 | May 27, 2020
When will arrive the moment when we`ll witness once again the rare and dislocated talent of the Wachowskis? [Full Review in Spanish]
| Apr 29, 2020
There will never be a time when I won't wholeheartedly recommend this 100 per cent proof distillation of everything escapism should be.
| Apr 13, 2020
Eddie Redmayne is simultaneously the best and worst part of the movie.
| Mar 26, 2020
It might sound strange to say, but Jupiter Ascending lacks Keanu Reeves.
| Jan 9, 2020
Jupiter Ascending is one of the worst films I've ever seen.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 27, 2019
[I]t just ends up feeling like an intergalactic soap opera.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 19, 2019