Jupiter Ascending

This is going to get wordy and over-excited, but this film stepped all over many of my buttons, some of which I didn’t know I had. I am full of glee. I don’t think a movie has given me so many of the B-movie thrills I want on an A-movie budget in a while. It was the film I’ve been looking forward to since I thought it was coming out last year (and a little bit more). The Guardian review ends with It’s all very chaotic and entertaining, like a bizarre cult sci-fi TV show that somehow survived a threat of mid-season cancellation. Well, if you’ve been around here for a while, you will know that that’s my stomping ground. I want to go see it again, despite its flaws. So what follows is the equivalent of squeeing and cackling in text form. With spoilers.

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