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It is Time for Jupiter Ascending to Get the Love It Deserves
Having landed on Netflix this summer, the Wachowskis’ film may finally get its due.
The Wachowskis’ 2015 space epic, Jupiter Ascending, was a failure by any metric you want to use.
It was widely panned when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Critics raked the film over the coals mercilessly, and it currently has a 27 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Here is a taste of some of the brutal reviews:
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!
— Ricard Roepoer
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.
— David Edlestein
Don’t even get me started on the aliens…
