The movie by THE (emphasis is truly needed,) Wachowski’s also stars Mila Kunis and Sean Bean (though no word has come out whether he dies or not.) Kunis is Jupiter Jones, a girl who is born under many planetary signs. However, after one thing after another fails, she winds up as a cleaner, stuffing toilet brushes down the loo. That’s when Caine (Tatum) an interplanetary warrior, storms in to tell her she is technically royalty and is in line to own Earth. But, of course, there are people out there who don’t want that to happen. Cue lots of people trying to kill her as she arises to her rightful place in the Universe.
Ok. So reading that s makes it sound a bit like a Fifth Element rip-off (and if you giggled at interplanetary warrior then I am glad I am not alone.) But if you have seen both trailers, the violently epic score with the stunning visuals pulls it away from other elements. And the acting team behind it is a strangely unusual combination but it works in this two minute teaser. Who would have thought that Eddie Redmayne would make a pretty decent and campy villain in leather?
While it may take a while to look past some of the sillier costumes especially when Tatum looks like he jumped out of a Hobbit/Blade Runner mash up. Never the less, Jupiter Ascending looks incredible.