Jupiter Ascending

My godness ! This is bad ! Yet we are this close to a not so bad movies. But the cut is bad, the acting horrific and the fight scenes totally unreadable.

A good idea unfulfilled. Spectacular visuals. Despite the creative brilliance of the Wachowskis, this script was overly ambitious. The casting was solid (almost) but the desire for epic portrayals (probably a directorial decision not left to the actor) was overinflated, leaving us with Eddie Redmayne at his worse. I wonder if a TV series would have allowed for the plot to have more flesh and the characters to grow into themselves (the Wachowskis certainly know how to write for TV - ie. SENSE8). They used the casting cliche that audiences expect American actors to play rising-from-the gutter heros and Brits will play entitled villains, but I, personally, don't think Channing Tatum is ever a convincing performer unless he's playing himself, which left his character stranded without content or romantic attractiveness, just a hunky shell. Too bad. With this cast, the brilliant imaginations of its writers, and the big budget CGI, I'm disappointed to only be able to give this movie a 4 (poor) out of 10. [Fantasy Action Adventure]