A fairy tale under a sci-fi shell

Myrtice 2022-03-22 09:01:31

Cleaner sister Jupiter, who flushes the toilet every day, doesn't like her life: she's upset with endless chores and bickering family members, and her dead father and his astronomy hobby are like a beautiful but too much a distant dream. However, this ordinary life was changed because she tried to donate eggs. The natural "queen" gene attracted the king of the alien "God Realm", so the tall and handsome bounty hunter Kane found her! From then on, she and the charming kidnapper begin a journey of adventure together: Jupiter is kidnapped by an undercover agent sent by the eldest daughter of the gods! Kane rushes in to save her! Jupiter was forced to marry by the youngest son of the God Realm! Kane rushes in to save her! Jupiter's family was kidnapped by the eldest son of the gods! Kane rushes in to save her family! ...As the difficulty factor of the rescue gradually increased, the fighting scenes became longer and longer. After the three big bosses were defeated one by one, Queen Jupiter finally returned to the ordinary earth, and lived happily ever after with Kane. "Shuangfei" life... This is the basic plot of this film.
At first glance, the same genes represent the reincarnation of the queen, and the earth is the raw material factory for health products in the "God Realm". All kinds of fresh worldview settings and dazzling action special effects have covered this movie with a gorgeous science fiction. coat. But no amount of visual elements can fill the mediocrity and dullness of the film's plot when the storyline is divorced from the basic issues of sci-fi. When I was tired of watching the scenes of the heroine falling into the abyss and the hero flying out of the theater, yawning and walking out of the theater, I felt deeply disappointed by this film with a girlish heart.
Because in the final analysis, it is just a fairy tale dream of a little girl: one day, a highly anticipated hero of the world will step on colorful clouds, or like Kane in the film, on cool "skateboard shoes", come Marry me! And Jupiter used his own actions to prove that not every Cinderella is worthy of being rescued, every danger she went through seemed so "willful", and the prince himself was really capable, and he always arrived at the scene." Timely", making it difficult for even the most tolerant audience to have a sense of substitution for such a stereotyped plot.
Compared with the male and female protagonists, the eldest sons with distinctive characteristics of "God Realm" are more likely to make people's eyes shine. The eldest son, Barham, is the heir to the "God Realm", but he is very neurotic. He often bursts out and roars, and is full of complicated and inexplicable love and hatred for his mother; the youngest son Titus seems to be cynical, but in fact Quite scheming, he tricked the reincarnated "mother" into agreeing to marry him, and ruthlessly threw the male protagonist into outer space...Aside from the plot, the two actors at least succeeded in creating more three-dimensional characters The image allows this film to satisfy the audience's curiosity about watching the alien "Gong Dou" in addition to the action scenes.
Whether it's a sci-fi theme or a fairy tale, at least Mira and Channing's looks are recognized, and the two people in the film are also very good. If you just want to get visual satisfaction, this film is still worth watching.

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Extended Reading
  • Vincent 2021-12-31 08:01:20

    Haha, I am speechless after reading it. This is the kind of Hollywood movie that "Birdman" sprays, the most brainless visual feast, a bunch of elements that only serve the eyeballs into a vulgar story, the existence of characters is to elicit CG special effects. And this film was actually made by Wachowski’s sister and brother, facing the Chinese market, it really lost both of them.

  • Osvaldo 2022-03-24 09:01:32

    What family accident happened to the filthy driver brother and sister... It looks like this... However, people really want to use the toner that "returns to 20 years old"...

Jupiter Ascending quotes

  • Balem Abrasax: [sitting on his throne with his back to Jupiter] You should have stayed dead.

    Jupiter Jones: [angrily] I am not your mother.

    Balem Abrasax: [scoffing] No, my mother never cleaned a toilet in her life.

    Jupiter Jones: Maybe that was her problem.

    Balem Abrasax: My mother... My mother taught me what was necessary to rule in this universe.

    Jupiter Jones: By killing people?

    Balem Abrasax: [throws up his hands] *I create life*! And I destroy it. Life in an act of consumption, Jupiter. To live is to consume. Now, the human beings on your planet are merely a resource waiting to be converted into capital. And this entire enterprise is just a small part in a vast and beautiful machine defined by evolution, designed to a single purpose... To create profit.

  • [first lines]

    Jupiter Jones: Technically speaking, I'm an alien. And from the perspective of Immigration, an illegal one. My parents met at the University in Saint Petersburg, where he taught Astrophysics and she taught Applied Mathematics. My mother fell in love with him when she found him almost frozen to death on the bank of the Neva, staring at the stars.