Which movie is this?
Don't get me wrong, the author has absolutely no intention of conflating Wachowski’s famous film "The Matrix" with the new film "Jupiter Ascending" to prove what is "old-fashioned" and "tacky".
In fact, the content mentioned above is one of the classic structures adopted by a large number of commercial films. On this skeleton, there are both "Terminator"-like works and fantasy duds such as "Holy Grail Artifact Skeleton City", even if the Japanese remake of the big movie "Saint Seiya: Legend of the Sanctuary" still uses Reinforce it in the same context as above. It can be said that there are many restrictions and huge space to cut in with "panic escape" and create the world with a brand-new setting. Whether the specific narrative under the dome is good or not is the key to the visibility of the movie.
To put it horizontally, in fact, "Jupiter Ascends" is a movie with a "Star Wars" temperament that I have seen in recent years, and it is the standard inheritance of the so-called space opera. Of course, the advantages and disadvantages are also accepted and carried forward: the careful carving of the scene art, the focus on the creation of action scenes, and the undisguised mix and match of various cultural elements. At the same time, the main line is extremely simple, the characters are relatively flat, and the science fiction part is not. Responsibilities are rigorous and ambitious, and most of the social and cultural displays are taken for granted. In fact, this is not absolutely good or bad, it's just an aesthetic choice.
There are many worldview settings in the movie that seem to be the tip of an iceberg, but they actually arouse the audience's interest in finding out. What is the whole developmental context of the "ancestors of mankind" that has nothing to do with the earth? Has the current human technology level been forcibly locked? Why can the destroyed building be restored? Is the combat effectiveness of genetically modified humans determined by animals? Is the power of the beauty family big or small? Suddenly in the middle, what is bureaucracy playing? Of course, the whole film borrows a lot of mature props from other works, saving time for explanation and spitting out a few scientific slots. And everything that seems vague and there is no time to repeat is supported by thoughtful details (for example, the lighting and modeling of the heroine's birth are very similar to religious oil paintings). This will inevitably give Zhai Xiang a special favor to the audience, even if it is the story of Gu Yueshibian's creation, as long as the people in the play are serious about it, they can be respected.
So the indiscriminate bombing in the first forty minutes of the movie is worth experiencing in the theater. The appearance of the skater Channing and the sitting attitude of the villain in an atmosphere similar to ancient Egypt soon heralded that there will be unusual content to explain to the audience. In fact, it took more than an hour to fully explain the setting of the whole world. There will be action scenes over time. The plot flow will be tight due to the continuous combat, but the problem is that this must require a considerable amount of funding to maintain the excitement of the audience. With the increasingly sophisticated tastes of today's audiences, the baseline of investment is also getting higher and higher. The pressure of the director is increasing, and it is not wrong to choose conservative creativity.
Surprisingly, the content of the second half of "Jupiter Ascending" has fallen a lot below the bottom line.
After the heroine Jupiter fully learned of her reincarnation status, the story is basically composed of three dramas in which she and her three siblings were in contact with three siblings in different environments and were subjected to different coercion and temptation. Originally, the audience could basically be aware of the rhythm of the Zhuan Palace Fighting drama. The children had their own ghosts and dismantled each other. With the addition of the Aegis and individual mercenaries, it was not difficult to make a good show at first glance. However, the conflicts and actions between the characters are very monotonous, and the strategy is like a self-talking playhouse. The supporting characters are basically decorated, and the protagonist has no unique growth space, so he has to work hard to grow feelings a little bit. The two climax periods of the hero's rescue alone are almost exactly the same before and after the play. In addition, the battle scene failed to give a more unexpected design, and the whole work slipped unstoppably into the quagmire of mediocrity.
At the end, the life-and-death struggle between good and evil, accompanied by the collapse of the huge building, also reveals the completely outdated thinking in the script. As long as the decent believes to make a choice, the villain will immediately become anxious and ruined. It's difficult for the Xinke actor to always keep trembling and alternately say "Mom, I love you" and "Mom, I want to kill you". I'm afraid he really doesn't understand this character's way of thinking. Compared with "Guardians of the Galaxy", which was released a few months earlier, the cute ones are responsible for selling cute, but the emotional advancement between the characters is reasonable and lawful, and the creative concept is different for many light years.
On the contrary, Mila Kunis's attitude of pursuing "interracial" feelings without hesitation can see that the Wachowskis have always been trembling with the Queen's attributes. Because those who overlap with our love, I hope from the bottom of my heart that this is just an overly cautious failure, not an infallible defeat. You know, there are talented people from generation to generation, and the white-headed palace lady talks about Xuanzong. The Russell brothers' "Captain America 3" is also on the way.
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