“Plot holes” are there, sure, but the imagery on-screen is so stirring it’s hard to care.

| Feb 7, 2025

No amount of visual pyrotechnics, no matter how spectacular, can save such a tired, weak story.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 6, 2020

The storytelling is clumsy, the characters are befuddling, and the Wachowskis' action sequences - once so graceful and thrilling - are ugly, noisy, and worst of all, boring.

| May 30, 2016

Aggressively dull and terribly paced.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 17, 2015

Directors Lana and Andy Wachowski excel at creating fantastic new worlds lurking under the surface of our own, but in Jupiter Ascending, they've overstuffed the turkey with too many tangents and false endings.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 2, 2015

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!

Full Review | Original Score: 0 | Feb 26, 2015

I still don't know what Jupiter Ascending is about but, wow, what a ride.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 20, 2015

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.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 10, 2015

The Wachowskis create a churning, swooping C.G.I. universe that's decorated to the corners of the frame without taste or imagination.

| Feb 9, 2015

When it comes to bonkers, overcooked, overambitious sci-fi, writer/directors Andy and Lana Wachowski really are in a world of their own.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2015

Don't even get me started on the aliens, many of whom would have been turned away from the cantina door in Mos Eisley.

| Feb 6, 2015

Redmayne's farcical grandiosity harkens back to science-fiction serials of the 1930s, but unfortunately so does Jupiter's passivity throughout the film.

| Feb 6, 2015

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.

| Feb 6, 2015

Upon exiting, my wearied delight with Jupiter Ascending coexisted with pure bafflement. But I exited knowing that I'd seen a movie no other filmmaker could have made.

| Feb 6, 2015

This sci-fi-inflected fantasy has many a wince-worthy romantic exchange between stars Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 6, 2015

This movie often plays like a super-expensive, 21st-century version of one of those "Star Wars" knockoffs made around 1980 by people who weren't George Lucas.

| Feb 6, 2015

Jupiter Ascending's early cleverness dries up quickly, especially when Kunis is offscreen, leaving us with just another incoherent sci-fi spectacle.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 6, 2015

This kind of pandering FX padding, unnurtured by humor or heart, is what shifts Jupiter Ascending from a shambles to a fiasco. The Wachowskis wind up where you never expected to find them creatively: on the ropes.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 6, 2015

A beautiful muddle from The Matrix-making Wachowski siblings.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 6, 2015

A big, woozy, spacey fairy tale with a science-fiction exoskeleton and a core of pure mush.

| Feb 6, 2015