Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum's lives intersect when the fate of our earth comes into play in the cosmic battle for dominance between the Abraxas siblings, whose mother, and owner of the earth dies leaving it's fate in the balance.
Jupiter (Kunis) is unhappy in her monotonous and far from glamorous life of cleaning the homes of the wealthy with her mother and her aunt. Money is tight, and in order to buy a telescope akin to the one that her father died to protect before she was born, Jupiter decides to harvest her eggs, and this trip to the doctor will leave her life changed forever.
There are a number of separate parties gunning to get to Jupiter first, for their own personal gain, including Canine Wise (Tatum); A half human, half canine genetically engineered ex-soldier, sent to retrieve Jupiter. Initially hired to track her down his morals conflict with his obligations as he goes to extreme lengths to keep Jupiter safe.
Jupiter is more than in over her head in a world she has only just discovered, she doesn't understand the rules and she doesn't know what she can trust, all she knows is that she has to do what she can to save the only world she's ever known Earth.
Sounds exiting right?
Wrong.
Well yes you are right, but you are sorely mistaken as this film had a wealth of potential, and it disappointingly, but not unexpectedly, fell short. There were stunning galactic shots, out of this world costumes and some pretty amazing fight sequences, not to mention hilarious one liners, But overall the premise of the film, which was essentially; the possibility of Earth being harvested so that the rich could stay looking young, left nothing to be desired. The film lacked momentum, it was rarely intriguing and finally ended on such a dull note there seemed to be no point in having started watching the film I the first place. Fair enough to Channing Tatum, but really Mila? We all expected better.
This films gets two unicorns as a consolation prize for Channing and Mila. Well done guys You Tried.... Well you showed up.
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