Why 'Jupiter Ascending' Is A Big, Bold, Beautiful Mess [Video Review]

The Wachowskis' Jupiter Ascending is a total mess. It's plot is nearly incomprehensible. It feels like there's a director's cut out there with at least a half hour more of explanatory plot details and character development. It introduces various story lines and characters whose appear on the screen for minutes before they vanish and are never followed up on. It borrows heavily from The Wachowskis' own film, The Matrix, yet is crammed full of ideas that have appeared in other, better fantasy and sci-fi films.

And yet, I couldn't help but enjoy it. Hit the jump to see my video review of the movie.

Here's the plot summary for the film:

Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis star in "Jupiter Ascending," an original science fiction epic adventure from filmmakers Lana and Andy Wachowski (The Matrix). Jupiter Jones (Kunis) was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people's houses and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine (Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along—her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.