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[y2dvd]

Still no percentage of rottentomatoe and it releases this Friday? That can't be a good sign.

 

[Dead]

These reviews and impressions seem to suggest that a lot of the movie might have been left on the cutting room floor, while the big action set pieces were retained. With a running time of just 2 hours, this is the shortest film they've made since Bound. With a setting which seems the most ambitious in terms of scope. Really weird. I wonder what happened behind the scenes.

With the delay I'd imagine they were instructed to tighten up the movie, ie cut as much non action as possible.

If true maybe there will be an extended version on bluray though the wachowskis have never done one of those before.

 

[DECK'ARD]

This almost makes me want to see it.

http://digitalspy.co.uk/movies/revi...lockbuster-is-a-hot-mess.html#~p3eFRUk9CkN6WM

Jupiter Ascending review: 'Wachowski blockbuster is a hot mess'

Andy and Lana Wachowski have frequently reached for the stars with their ambitious blockbusters, but in their latest offering Jupiter Ascending it all slips through their fingers in spectacularly disastrous fashion.

Though this isn't a science fiction folly quite as bad as Battlefield Earth or The Adventures of Pluto Nash, it's still rammed with an incomprehensible plot, off-key performances and a script that blurts out lines as ridiculous as "bees are genetically engineered to recognise royalty".

There's no such clarity or clean storytelling in Jupiter Ascending. Packed with the kind of snoozy political machinations not witnessed since the Star Wars prequels and impenetrable interplanetary gobbledegook, it's muddled and messy.

Spare a thought for the Jupiter Ascending cast, who wander through the whole thing looking entirely bewildered by it all. There's barely a crackle of chemistry between Kunis and Tatum, with the latter, all beard and pointy ears, looking like a musclebound Mr Tumnus as he zips around on hover boots.

Jupiter Ascending might be a bad movie, but at least it's an entertaining load of old cobblers. This is a hot mess space opera from start to finish.

 

[jett]

It took a while, but we finally got a sequel to Dune!

 

[DECK'ARD]

"Entertaining load of old cobblers" should have been used on the posters.

 

[jeanRicK]

"musclebound Mr Tumnus" .... Lol

 

[Oppo]

a script that blurts out lines as ridiculous as "bees are genetically engineered to recognise royalty".

maybe they just misheard that.

bees are genetically engineered to recognize royal jelly.

 

[jett]

maybe they just misheard that.

bees are genetically engineered to recognize royal jelly.

Actually it is

"deez nuts are genetically engineered to recognize royal jelly"

 

[Wind's Howling]

Go see it and make a bet. If it sucks she has to do something for you. If its good you got to do something for her.

Why am I having the feeling that his 'something for you' is going to involve something sexual and her's is not?

 

[inm8num2]

Still no percentage of rottentomatoe and it releases this Friday? That can't be a good sign.

36% currently (4 fresh, 7 rotten).

 

[Nazgul11]

I'm seeing a pre-screening of this tomorrow night. Looking forward to it.

I'll make sure to post impressions if I get home in time!

 

[Denton]

Well, seen it.

Empty cinema, four people in total.

It was...hmm. I cannot say that I was bored (most of the time), but the script really needed more work. Very cliche-ridden and formulaic. I enjoyed the world building and the whole idea behind it, and it was competent space opera, but there were too many facepalmic scenes for my taste. Surprising, coming from Wachowski's, whose work I always enjoyed thoroughly, yes even sequels.

Action was too overblown too, too drawn out...when Mila was falling somwhere for nth time it just became boring really.

That said, it is not a complete catastrophe. But it is weakest film siblings made. 6/10

..oh and the bee scene was actually my favourite scene in the film I think..